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Shore Road in Newtownabbey (File photo) Google Maps

Security alert in Belfast declared an 'elaborate hoax'

A number of homes had to be evacuated before the device was declared to be a fake.

A SUSPICIOUS DEVICE which led to a security alert in a Belfast suburb has been declared an ‘elaborate hoax’.

A number of homes had to be evacuated and a road was closed after the object was found on the Shore Road in Newtownabbey this morning.

A bomb squad team and PSNI officers carried out an investigation at the scene before the device was declared to be a fake.

There have been an increased number of security alerts around Newtownabbey over the past week.

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    Mute km
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    May 10th 2012, 6:22 PM

    You can turn them off?

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    Mute hasnooneasked
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    May 10th 2012, 6:25 PM

    I have heard it all now. There is a disorder for everything

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    May 10th 2012, 8:37 PM

    Pretty dependent on mine, but it’s pretty sad when you look at a group of people in a pub / restaurant and they’re all tapping away in silence together. I’m good at putting it away when I’m with friends / family

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    May 10th 2012, 7:50 PM

    Yep, I am totally addicted to mine…it’s always by my side. If I leave the house without it I go straight back home to pick it up… Bit of a worry really!

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    May 10th 2012, 7:03 PM

    Yup that’s me !! I panic tbh thought it was unhealthy alright ! Since I was 16 I have slept with my phone next to me !! Lol it sounds crazy when I think about it! I’m more afraid of misplacing my phone than misplacing my friend lol

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    May 10th 2012, 6:47 PM

    So have this.

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    May 10th 2012, 6:48 PM

    Yeah i know someone like that.. wakes up in the morning and checks email twitter and FB. dont think she checks for texts of phone calls tho.

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    Mute Gerard Cunningham
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    May 10th 2012, 9:35 PM

    Shouldn’t it be called iPhobia?

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    May 10th 2012, 8:07 PM

    It was inevitable really. We live in the information age where everything and anything can be done ‘via web’.. I’m addicted to mine, but tbh I think that’s an acceptable lifestyle in this day and age.

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    Mute Barry
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    May 10th 2012, 6:24 PM

    don’t give a monkeys about my phone, can easily go a day or two without checking it and i use a 5 year old 2g iphone

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    Mute David Murphy
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    May 10th 2012, 6:58 PM

    Well, it’ll probably be starting school in September so at least you’ll have the day to yourself.

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    May 10th 2012, 8:29 PM

    Hahaha @David

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    May 10th 2012, 11:01 PM

    This disease was rampant up until the end of the last century. Lead people to vandalise public phones (a phone in a glass box at the side of the street) by ripping off the hand set ( the part of the glass box you had to speak into)

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    May 10th 2012, 8:17 PM

    You talking about me?

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    May 10th 2012, 7:45 PM

    Haha does NOT apply to me at all! I have the most wonderful phone HTC RHYME and I never Ever know where it is and so never hear it ringing and so do not know who called or texted me. I am so bad that sometimes I see Txts only days later lol

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    May 11th 2012, 2:13 AM

    Ah jaysus, couldn’t you have put up a picture of an iPhone. What the hell is that yolk

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    May 10th 2012, 10:55 PM

    my worse case was the other night my friend got a tx and straight away all I could think was where is my phone, couldnt c it in my sight so spent ages looking for it for no reason…….is there a helpline for us yet???

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    May 11th 2012, 8:14 AM

    duh of course its ok unless you’re from the 1920′s

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