NYers, Stay Calm: The ‘Suspicious Package’ That Evacuated a Times Square Hotel Was Just Trash

Contrary to initial skepticism that it was all just a drill, the shooting and subsequent lockdown at the nation’s capitol building complex today were definitely real. Luckily, a suspicious package that drew a bomb squad to New York’s Times Square today was determined to be definitely not real.

Brooklyn Patch has the report that the evacuation of a near-by Marriott was all for Marri-naught. The “suspicious package” was just garbage, but it took two hours to figure that out. As you can imagine, people are less than thrilled.

So our hotel has been evacuated and now we’ll never get our luggage and miss our flight because FML ??????????????

A photo posted by Zoriana Z (@ptc555) on Mar 28, 2016 at 12:12pm PDT

There was major traffic expected, too.

.@NotifyNYC @NYPDnews 45th and 46th closed between 8th Ave and Broadway to cars and pedestrians

— Kelly Marie McKenna (@CelticCeallaigh) March 28, 2016

Now that it is clear there is no threat, New Yorkers are returning to their usual Times Square-related attitude.

Why do I work in Times Square there too many damn people

— Denise Herrera (@denise_herrera6) March 28, 2016

[image via Twitter]

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