Don't Panic - It's Just a Librarian

A bomb scare emptied out the Alewife T, a daycare, and a restaurant yesterday morning. David Toomey, a librarian at the Harvard College Library, lost it and said he had a bomb in his backpack.

He said, "You might want to check the backpack." And, boy, did they ever!

A daycare and a restaurant were also evacuated. Judging from transit police's comments at WHDH, the law went after Toomey's backpack: "We responded, we found the individual with a backpack, separated him from the backpack, and performed the necessary actions to make that backpack safe." In other words, that backpack was history.