Hoax

The bridge between Laredo, Texas and Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas was shut down after a passerby warned police about a bomb in a trash can under the bridge. The device turned out to be false, although El Universal reported the episode as having been real, and placed the story on the front page of today's paper. Oops. 

There must be something in the water in Nuevo Laredo: earlier this month, a flight originating from Nuevo Laredo had to make an emergency landing after a passenger untruthfully wrote that the plane was carrying a bomb on the bathroom mirror with lipstick.