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Bomb threat causes evacuation of OracleWorld conference
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September 10, 2003 (8:00:00 AM)
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- by Chris Preimesberger -
SAN FRANCISCO -- Approximately 20,000 attendees at the OracleWorld show at the Moscone Center's North and South wings were evacuated Wednesday afternoon following a bomb threat at the huge underground conference center.
SAN FRANCISCO -- Approximately 20,000 attendees at the OracleWorld show at the Moscone Center's North and South wings were evacuated Wednesday afternoon following a bomb threat at the huge underground conference center.
People were generally calm and orderly during the evacuation, a Moscone security officer said. The keynote address on Day 3 of the conference by Oracle senior vice president Ken Jacobs was interrupted.
Police officers cordoned off several streets around the downtown conference center, stopping rush-hour traffic and causing backups for blocks in all directions. A state police helicopter hovered over the area while officers searched the massive structure.
A Seybold Seminar event, held across the street at Moscone West, also was interrupted and its attendees evacuated.
No person or group has yet taken responsibility for the bomb scare.
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uh yeah Linux World was held there just a few weeks ago.
Nope.
...as one of the few free software people around. It wasn't that big a deal.
The thing that made me feel all warm and fuzzy reading about it afterward is that the caller said the bomb would go off an hour after the call, but the building wasn't evacuated until more than a half hour after that.
Raph Levien
(too lazy to create an account.
The thing that made me feel all warm and fuzzy reading about it afterward is that the caller said the bomb would go off an hour after the call, but the building wasn't evacuated until more than a half hour after that.
Raph Levien
(too lazy to create an account.
That Bill Gates and his practical jokes<nobr> <wbr></nobr>:)
I heard it was Steve Jobs
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on September 11, 2003 11:53 PMwill anybody actually read this?
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