Jan. 9th, 2006
Another reason to go to Peets
Jan. 9th, 2006 09:15 pm(01-09) 16:55 PST SAN FRANCISCO -- About 100 people were evacuated today and traffic on two busy San Francisco thoroughfares was rerouted after a Starbucks employee found a homemade bomb in a restroom.
The employee found what appeared to be a "suspicious device" inside the unisex bathroom at the Starbucks at Van Ness Avenue and Bush Street around 1:15 p.m. and called police, Sgt. Neville Gittens said.
Gittens would not describe the device or its size other than to say it "would have caused damage if it exploded.''
Don Henschke, sales manager at Ellis Brooks Auto Center across the street from the coffee house, said a police officer had described the bomb to him as "a portion of a flashlight and a fuse."