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Tampa police find 'suspicious' bricks, pipes on rooftop just days before Republican convention
AP ^ | 8/21/2012 | TAMARA LUSH

Posted on 08/22/2012 11:18:50 AM PDT by Joe Brower

Tampa police find 'suspicious' bricks, pipes on rooftop just days before Republican convention
TAMARA LUSH, Associated Press
August 21, 2012

TAMPA, Fla. - Tampa police said Tuesday that they confiscated pipes, bricks and other "suspicious" items from the rooftop of a downtown building located about a mile from where next week's Republican National Convention will be held.

Tampa Police Chief Jane Castor said she believes the items were put there by protesters for use during RNC demonstrations. She added that some RNC-related graffiti was also found at the building, but wouldn't elaborate.

"It is disconcerting but it's not surprising," she said. "This is normally how things proceed leading up to a large event."

Tampa will host the RNC at a downtown stadium from Aug. 27-30.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: election2012; fl; florida; liberalintolerance; liberalviolence; rnc
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1 posted on 08/22/2012 11:19:02 AM PDT by Joe Brower
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To: Joe Brower

was it put there by those sensitive, caring liberals?


2 posted on 08/22/2012 11:21:30 AM PDT by Mr. K ("The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum [of good]")
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To: Joe Brower

Still not clear on what differentiates ‘suspicious’ rooftop debris from ‘normal/unsuspicious’ rooftop debris...


3 posted on 08/22/2012 11:22:17 AM PDT by Uncle Ike (Rope is cheap, and there are lots of trees...)
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To: JulieRNR21; kinganamort; katherineisgreat; floriduh voter; summer; Goldwater Girl; windchime; ...
These primitive 'weapons caches' were on the TV news today -- looks like the "Occupiers" have been prepping. The sites were marked with spray-painted images of Guy Fawkes.

These tactics mirror what the OWS orcs pulled in San Francisco last May.

Be careful out there, folks.

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4 posted on 08/22/2012 11:22:24 AM PDT by Joe Brower (Sheep have three speeds: "graze", "stampede" and "cower".)
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To: Joe Brower

I’m gonna guess that what makes them “suspicious” is there location.

I wonder if they found any suspicious grenades, as opposed to the regular kind.


5 posted on 08/22/2012 11:22:36 AM PDT by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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To: Joe Brower

My two cents..

http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D4x603jW3TB4%26sns%3Dfb&sns=fb&v=4x603jW3TB4&gl=US


6 posted on 08/22/2012 11:24:36 AM PDT by goseminoles
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To: Uncle Ike; cuban leaf
This has been seen before, and recently:

Bricks, pipes thrown from occupied SF building

7 posted on 08/22/2012 11:25:28 AM PDT by Joe Brower (Sheep have three speeds: "graze", "stampede" and "cower".)
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To: Joe Brower

Half the streets in Tampa are brick cobblestone. There are plenty of weapons the morons will use.

The city spent many hundreds of thousands of dollars planting palm trees and flowers down Ashley Drive then on the right as you pass the museums, it looks like Stalag 17 with 8 foot high barriers and fences to keep out the scum. What a shame.


8 posted on 08/22/2012 11:27:45 AM PDT by 109ACS (If this be Treason, then make the most of it. Patrick Henry, May 1765)
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To: goseminoles
I think the storm will steer away from the convention, and then all the media hacks will be yukking it up about how it was all the hot air from Romney & Ryan that blew it away...
9 posted on 08/22/2012 11:28:22 AM PDT by Joe Brower (Sheep have three speeds: "graze", "stampede" and "cower".)
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To: Joe Brower

FYI- the grafitti was a weird looking Dracula dude with “99” next to him..


10 posted on 08/22/2012 11:28:50 AM PDT by goseminoles
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To: Joe Brower

Have you seen the latest forecast???? Im just across the bridge.


11 posted on 08/22/2012 11:31:56 AM PDT by goseminoles
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To: goseminoles
The image is of Guy Fawkes. Here is a pic from a local news outlet:


12 posted on 08/22/2012 11:33:07 AM PDT by Joe Brower (Sheep have three speeds: "graze", "stampede" and "cower".)
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To: Joe Brower

Don’t be blamin’ those liberals! They just don’t know what a rectangular rock-like thinga-ma-jig was and as for that long tubular thing, they just never seen a crack pipe that big.


13 posted on 08/22/2012 11:35:02 AM PDT by Cyman
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To: Joe Brower

I remember that.

It’s kinda funny that the folks who placed this stuff didn’t think the area within a 20 block radius of this place will be scrubbed clean enough to eat off of.


14 posted on 08/22/2012 11:36:44 AM PDT by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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To: Joe Brower
This has been seen before...

Yes it has.

In Chicago, in 1968.

And it did not work out well, neither for the anarchists, nor the Democrats.

Bring it, OWS.

Put your stink on Obama.

15 posted on 08/22/2012 11:38:32 AM PDT by Palmetto Patriot (2010 All Over Again. Make it happen. Get Busy!)
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To: goseminoles
"Have you seen the latest forecast?"

I have. I was joking, but as I mentioned on another thread, at this time of the year the weather folks can't say for sure what's going to happen from one day to the next, much less a week.

If Isaac does happen by, maybe then all the hand-wringers around here will stop whining about the drought. We will see.

16 posted on 08/22/2012 11:40:01 AM PDT by Joe Brower (Sheep have three speeds: "graze", "stampede" and "cower".)
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To: Joe Brower

The also found roofing nails that could be used as weapons, as well as tar shingles that can choke a man to death. And if you disassemble the roof fan, you have six machetes that can decapitate someone.

And don’t forget the pigeon poop. Stuff is deadly. Clearly planted there.


17 posted on 08/22/2012 11:40:01 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy
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To: cuban leaf

The cops should’ve staked it out and grab `em as they stockpile or whatever.


18 posted on 08/22/2012 11:40:46 AM PDT by NCDave (AKA, "That idiot over there")
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To: Joe Brower

Thanks. I didn’t know who that dude was..


19 posted on 08/22/2012 11:41:49 AM PDT by goseminoles
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy

Uhhh... yeah. Right. You’ve got it all figured out.


20 posted on 08/22/2012 11:43:20 AM PDT by Joe Brower (Sheep have three speeds: "graze", "stampede" and "cower".)
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