Underground Mysteries
January 24, 2003 8:30 AM Subscribe
Is Something afoot at the DC Metro's Crystal City station? First its the mysterious derailment on Tuesday, still unexplained. Now a strange man is spotted with vials of a unknown liquid in the station before the system is even open! What's up at Crystal City? [more inside]
The system opens at 6:00 AM so a man spotted at 4:55 would be quite out of place.
I know people that live, work and shop within Crystal City, never seeing the light of day. I'm surprised the place isn't teeming with subterranean whackos with vials of strange liquid.
posted by machaus at 8:43 AM on January 24, 2003
I know people that live, work and shop within Crystal City, never seeing the light of day. I'm surprised the place isn't teeming with subterranean whackos with vials of strange liquid.
posted by machaus at 8:43 AM on January 24, 2003
I'm resting on the notion that the strange man with the unidentified liquid was just a PC description of a drunk with a snapple bottle of his own pee. Otherwise I just whisked through a metro station on my way to work that is possibly contaminated by biological agents. C'mon, drunk!!!
posted by Mushkelley at 8:46 AM on January 24, 2003
posted by Mushkelley at 8:46 AM on January 24, 2003
Beware of the C.H.U.D.'s
posted by Pollomacho at 8:46 AM on January 24, 2003
posted by Pollomacho at 8:46 AM on January 24, 2003
It's also the subway stop for the Navy Nuclear Power Program. (At least it was when I got in back in 1990).
posted by greasepig at 8:50 AM on January 24, 2003
posted by greasepig at 8:50 AM on January 24, 2003
Crytal City is where all the UN Shock Troops are housed, didn't you know?
posted by GriffX at 8:59 AM on January 24, 2003
posted by GriffX at 8:59 AM on January 24, 2003
Passengers were led from the train to a grassy knoll and then to the buses.
Hmm. The plot thickens.
posted by pitchblende at 9:04 AM on January 24, 2003
Hmm. The plot thickens.
posted by pitchblende at 9:04 AM on January 24, 2003
I often wonder about what motivates municipalities to choose certain names of places. Crystal City? Makes me think they're all janked up on the janky jank. Topic? I, for one, welcome our unknown liquid vial carrying overlords.
posted by haqspan at 9:24 AM on January 24, 2003
posted by haqspan at 9:24 AM on January 24, 2003
Must have been during Marion B's administration, back then they WERE "janked up on the janky jank"
posted by Pollomacho at 9:36 AM on January 24, 2003
posted by Pollomacho at 9:36 AM on January 24, 2003
I'm resting on the notion that the strange man with the unidentified liquid was just a PC description of a drunk with a snapple bottle of his own pee.
So that's why it's called the Yellow Line...
posted by LinusMines at 10:06 AM on January 24, 2003
So that's why it's called the Yellow Line...
posted by LinusMines at 10:06 AM on January 24, 2003
As long as I could get to the Border's at Pentagon City, I was happy.
But an unexplained derailment near the Pentagon subway stop would be awfully suspicious.
posted by stevefromsparks at 10:10 AM on January 24, 2003
But an unexplained derailment near the Pentagon subway stop would be awfully suspicious.
posted by stevefromsparks at 10:10 AM on January 24, 2003
I keep getting Flashbacks from the movie Dark City.
posted by cinderful at 11:23 AM on January 24, 2003
posted by cinderful at 11:23 AM on January 24, 2003
There's trouble in Crystal City with a capital T
Which rhymes with P
Which stands for...
Pancakes!
posted by Vidiot at 11:45 AM on January 24, 2003
Which rhymes with P
Which stands for...
Pancakes!
posted by Vidiot at 11:45 AM on January 24, 2003
I guess DC should have built the Monorail when it had the chance. Its kinda hard to derail when you've got that one great big one! And heck, it put New Haverbrook on the map, just think what it could do to the "Capital of the Free World!"
posted by Pollomacho at 12:18 PM on January 24, 2003
posted by Pollomacho at 12:18 PM on January 24, 2003
Used to live in Crystal City. Then decided to buy so had to go out to Reston (a condo no less). Hubby still commuted to downtown and was always nervous at how easy it would be to spread something via the metro. We then decided quality of life was more important than everything the DC metro area had to offer (pluses and minuses, like working blocks from a likely target for terrorists), so we've moved to Vermont. Now we just get the terrorists passing by, on their way to more populous place. ;-)
posted by evening at 1:38 PM on January 24, 2003
posted by evening at 1:38 PM on January 24, 2003
I thought the derailment was actually closer to the airport...on the scary high part of the tracks. *shudder*
posted by JoanArkham at 2:22 PM on January 24, 2003
posted by JoanArkham at 2:22 PM on January 24, 2003
A lot of paranoid people at MF, I guess.
I lived blocks away from the White House, and worked on Capitol Hill for the past 5 years or so. Never really worried about about my safety.
posted by Witold at 12:38 AM on January 26, 2003
I lived blocks away from the White House, and worked on Capitol Hill for the past 5 years or so. Never really worried about about my safety.
posted by Witold at 12:38 AM on January 26, 2003
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