It’s always fun to hear about “suspicious package”s, from the dirty jokes the adolescent part of my brain makes (“I knew that package was suspicious when I got home and” wave pinky) to imagining just what makes it suspicious (card on top signed “The Joker”?). Of course, we can make these coarse jokes because the suspicious package that caused a closure on Geary early this morning turned out to be about as dangerous as that syrup-filled school bomb in Die Hard 3.

It was first reported outside the Abbey Tavern at 3:45, and cops shut down Geary between 4th and 6th (oh, shit, should we be talking about the numbers first? As If Theresa Crivello’s reading this) until 6 this morning, when it was determined that their suspicions, while healthy, were not to be fulfilled.

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Eve Batey is the editor and publisher of the San Francisco Appeal. She used to be the San Francisco Chronicle's Deputy Managing Editor for Online, and started at the Chronicle as their blogging and interactive editor. Before that, she was a co-founding writer and the lead editor of SFist. She's been in the city since 1997, presently living in the Outer Sunset with her husband, cat, and dog. You can reach Eve at eve@sfappeal.com.

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