Two women said they called 911 while they were taking a smoke break in the plaza around 10 a.m. and noticed the object taped to the pole.



"We talked about it for a few minutes and decided there was something unusual about it and we called 911,'' said one woman, who didn't want her name used. "It looked like a stuffed animal,'' she said. "It was black."



Authorities spoke to both women throughout the morning and let them go back to work around 12:45 p.m. "It (the smoke break) was much longer than we expected,'' she said.