Ebay Bomb Scare Proves Harmless

[chiquita]

http://www.reuters.com                         November 14, 2007

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - EBay Inc said police have determined a suspicious package was harmless after the company evacuated a building at its corporate headquarters on Wednesday, a spokesman said.

"At approximately 12:30 p.m. PST today, local law enforcement authorities here determined that a suspicious package delivered to eBay's mailroom on the Hamilton Avenue campus was harmless," a company statement said.

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[2boysandtoys]

The evacuated building, which houses 200 employees and includes the company's mailroom, is located at the online auction leader's headquarters in San Jose, California.

I didn't know they had that many employees!!! 

Seriously, that's got to be very scary to be in a mail room and get a 'weird package'....

 

Thanks 4 sharing!!

[Baysbeauty]

You ought to see eBay and PayPal!!!  They are huge!!!!!

[knappschiles]

I didn't know they had that many employees!!!

Good one, Erin. The way they respond at times you would think the place is just a handful of overworked monkeys punching "auto respond" buttons all day. 

But seriously, yes scary, but I think too many are "overreacting" lately. We've had several "bomb scares"  here lately that were nothing. One shut down a busy freeway in rush hour. I can't remember what it turned out to be, but it was nothing dangerous.

Carol