eBay"s bomb suspicions by Claudia Sonea

On Wednesday, around 9 a.m., eBay's headquarters were evacuated due to a suspicious-looking package, found in the company's mailroom. Everything turned out to be a false alarm and the evacuated employees were allowed to return to their daily tasks. EBay's spokesman Hani Durzy did not gave any details of the incident, nor about what triggered the suspicion of bomb. This event happens about a year distance after at another eBay office in North San Jose someone set off a pipe bomb. Although no one was injured by the blast, it did create a sort of concerns that eventually were put off due to the lack of leads that ended the investigation. More than 200 employees were evacuated from one of the nine buildings of the online auction company's headquarters. All the fuss was stirred by a package found by workers in the mailroom. There is no information on what lead to the conclusion that the package contains a bomb. According to San Jose police officer Jermaine Thomas the dispatchers were informed about the suspicious package 24 minutes after the workers found it. In consequence the intersection of Bascom and Hamilton streets on the border between San Jose and Campbell was also blocked during the inspection of the threatening object. Durzy said that the entire matter is not unusual and despite the fact that it happened before, because eBay is a company and an entity in Silicon Valley threats like this are supposed to take place. All the other companies have to deal with the same thing. So, buy now, while you still can. Who knows what maniac will blow up the famous online auction company and there goes the chance for an average worker to acquire cheap things. Enjoy!

related story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071114/ap_on_hi_te/ebay_evacuated;_ylt=Aqy6udJV07s4eMc6LitgsLWs0NUE

by Claudia Sonea for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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