More Mooses...Strike That...NOOSES Appear In NY

NEW YORK (CBS) ― " There was a disturbing discovery near Ground Zero in Manhattan Thursday. A noose was found hanging from a lamppost at the Church Street Post Office. This is just the latest message of hate striking the city.

Police said it wasn't clear where or at whom the Church Street noose might have been directed.

"At this point, there was no target that was evident or any motive," U.S. Postal Inspection Service spokesman Al Weissman said Friday morning. He said no postal workers had reported any threats or other problems.

Postal workers in a second floor office at Church Street noticed the noose Thursday afternoon

Building managers removed the noose, which was later turned over to the NYPD's hate crimes unit for investigation, police said.

Speaking to reporters following a ceremony at a police memorial, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly suggested that the noose outside the post office could have been an attempt to imitate the discovery at Columbia, which shocked the Ivy League campus and received extensive news coverage.

"We have to be concerned about a copycat being out there," he said, adding that police had no suspects or motives in either incident.

Meanwhile, detectives at the NYPD Hate Crime task force have 56 hours of surveillance tapes to comb through, trying to catch the person who hung a noose on Professor Madonna Constantine's door at Columbia University.

A colleague, who Constantine is suing for defamation, says she had nothing to do placing this vile symbol of racism at her door.

"This whole thing is utterly, utterly despicable, ugly. As I've said to several people, nobody in the world should have to go through something like this," said Columbia Professor Suniya Luthar.

Nooses -- deplored as symbols of lynchings in the Old South -- have appeared in recent incidents in the New York area and across the country."

And as long as they continue to get a rise out of the Mr. & Mrs. touchy-feely-weepy's of the country, they'll show up as pranks on a regular basis.

But the true BREAKING NEWS is the EXCLUSIVE Messenger picture bringing you behind the scenes at a secret Noose Storehouse & Squirting Flower Emporium, located in a super-dee-duper part of downtown Manhattan. More nooses than you can shake a stick at...but don't try this at home.

Remember: Playing with rope is a HATE CRIME. Yet another addiction to hemp that can not only land you in the slammer, but in one swell foop choke off your 2nd Amendment Right to Keep & Bear Arms.