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EXCLUSIVE: Package That Cleared GWB Was Phony Pipe Bomb, Investigators Say EXCLUSIVE: Package That Cleared GWB Was Phony Pipe Bomb, Investigators Say
Exclusive: Package That Cleared GWB Was Phony Pipe Bomb, Investigators Say A suspicious package that closed the George Washington Bridge for more than two hours during Thursday night's rainstorm was actually a phony pipe bomb, Daily Voice has learned. The "inert device" found in the upper level's eastbound lane next to the median on the New Jersey side had a pipe bomb casing -- a symmetrical cylinder with two tied caps at either end -- but not all of the other components necessary to make it explosive, investigators said. Whoever called in the report may have been the person responsible for placing it there, investigators suspect. It was the only call received, …