Wearing gas mask, body armour to post package - USPS

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When San Jose police received a call that a man wearing a gas mask and body armour had shoved a large package in a post office box, they sprang into action. Within minutes, the post office was on lock down, and the police bomb squad, the Fire Department’s hazardous materials unit and a robot had rushed to the scene.

So Long Hoang could not believe it when he saw the news coverage and realised HE was the ‘suspicious’ man – and that the mask was a work-out aide he wore to lose weight. ‘The guy said he was wearing a cardio mask,’ Sgt. Jason Dwyer confirmed. ‘It was his cardio day, and he was trying to lose weight.’ The police received a call at 12.30pm on Tuesday that a man in a strange mask and vest was trying to stuff a large package into a post box, before running off. The post office went on lock down for four hours, with 150 employees and customers hidden in the back. The San Jose, California police bomb squad used a robot to detonate the package – which turned out to be a bunch of calendars.