The Onion News Network reports that the suspicious package industry has been doing it hard in recent times when everything, not just packages, has become suspicious. Suspicious package retailers are wondering if they have a future in the post-9/11 world. It quotes Paul Townsend, whose store, All Things Unattended, in Albany, New York, has found that people window-shop but they don't come in any more and buy.
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If there are more occasions where Australian Federal Police spend 12 hours admiring a suspicious package, lots more people might be tempted to buy a suspicious package of their own.
Can the suspicious package industry be revived? Or is it, as the report suggests, the end of an era?