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"Sixty five 20-ton garbage trucks, loaded with extra 15 tons of sand, will be a wall around the New York's iconic New Year's Eve celebration in Times Square, officials said Thursday.This move is meant to stop deadly truck-driving attacks into crowds like those in Germany and Francebaltimoredave flickr Also read: Nice Attack Rerun In Berlin As 'Asylum Seeker' Rams Truck Into Christmas Market. 12 Killed, Dozens InjuredThis is just one of the contingency plans, along with 100 patrol cars, at intersections surrounding Times Square, and 7,000 officers, specially armed counterterrorism units and bomb-sniffing dogs.\"We live in a changing world now,\" New York Police Department Commissioner James O'Neil said.\"It can't just be, 'What happens in New York, what happens in the United States?' It has to be more, 'What happens worldwide?'\"A Tunisian man who plowed a truck into a Christmas market in Berlin this month killed 12 people and injured 56 others. His attack followed a more deadly assault in Nice, France, in July that left 86 people dead when a man drove a 20-ton refrigerated truck into a crowd celebrating Bastille Day.New York police studied those events in planning their Times Square security.reutersOver 1 million people are expected to attend the annual ball drop countdown in Manhattan, and officials said they didn't know of any terror threats. Times Square revelers, who are prohibited from carrying umbrellas and large bags, will be screened at two points: once when they approach the Crossroads of the World and again when they enter one of the 65 pens that hold thousands of people each."
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