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Twitter: Former Bomb Tech On the Packages Sent to Leftists
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Posted on 10/24/2018 3:25:46 PM PDT by TigerClaws

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A few observations from a former bomb disposal officer (i.e. Me):

1. Proper pipe bombs don't have wires connected to both ends. That's dumb.

2. You can find timers / remote control receivers WAY smaller than whatever that white box is. A proper timer would best be stored inside the pipe, making it fully encapsulated. That thing is just silly looking

3. Bottom Line: Whoever made that wanted it to be painfully obvious to anyone and everyone that it's a "bomb."

This is nearly the same as a bundle of road flares wrapped together with an old-timey alarm clock ticking away.

4. "Hoax Devices" are FAR more common than real ones. In which case, we should ask ourselves what the motives of the "bomber" are and "who benefits?"

Go ahead. Think deeply and critically.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: 201810; cnn; duplicate; fakepipebombs; hoaxbomb; pipebomb; pipebombs; searchworks
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To: usconservative

Jim Acosta is already applying for his Purple Heart.


61 posted on 10/24/2018 5:05:32 PM PDT by UNGN (I've been here since '98 but had nothing to say until now)
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To: usconservative

Is that a photo of the real item that was sent?

That electronic device looks like one of those cheap, stick-on clocks. If so, and if the person who made it wanted to injure the recipient, what time would he set if for? If that’s a timer, it doesn’t make sense. There’s no way to know exactly when the recipient would take it out of the envelope. Any time afterwards, and bomb technicians would secure it and the recipient’s safety.

Unless the device were built to be ignited when unwrapped, it’s either a fake (possibly a hoax) or an effort to simply harass...or something made by a moron.


62 posted on 10/24/2018 5:05:43 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: TigerClaws
"2. You can find timers / remote control receivers WAY smaller than whatever that white box is."

I don't see a photo with that tweet. What "white box?"


63 posted on 10/24/2018 5:06:37 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: familyop

It ls clearly a hoax bomb. Not meant to explode. It’s just meant to scare.


64 posted on 10/24/2018 5:07:53 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
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To: Rurudyne
Precisely, my good FRiend.

Precisely!

65 posted on 10/24/2018 5:10:49 PM PDT by Seaplaner (Never give in-never, never,never...except to convictions of honour and good sense. Winston Churchill)
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To: Professional

I’m slightly more open to the possibility that they manipulated some flunky into doing it but even that seems doubtful. I just think this was an unplanned consequence of the lefty base being so whipped up. Some borderline personality out there blew a gasket and decided to “do something”.


66 posted on 10/24/2018 5:14:50 PM PDT by Yardstick
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To: TigerClaws

The guys on 4chan are having a field day with this.
Showing the stupidity of the bomb maker all had bomb written in sharpie.
I’ve seen bananas with a wristwatch.
Vibrators stuck on a clock.
A cucumber with a wristwatch
A potato clock
And some I can’t even mention
Ha, ha, halarious


67 posted on 10/24/2018 5:15:53 PM PDT by Keyhopper (Indians had bad immigration laws)
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To: funfan

It toned down the tone of Trump’s stump speech tonight.

It shuts up the “Jobs not Mobs” line, which was gaining traction and helping us with independent voters and undecideds.

The msm was ready with stories blaming Trump.


68 posted on 10/24/2018 5:16:21 PM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: All

Gateway Pundit now has the story.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/10/bomb-disposal-officer-todays-pipe-bombs-appear-to-be-hoax-devices-why-was-reporter-allowed-near-live-bomb/


69 posted on 10/24/2018 5:17:41 PM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: TigerClaws

The poor resistard that did this for the DNC is likely already room temperature.


70 posted on 10/24/2018 5:22:22 PM PDT by IamConservative (I was nervous like the third chimp in line for the Ark after rain had started falling.)
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To: IamConservative

There’s apparently an ISIS flag on the pipe part.

The misspellings were odd.

Just hope they find the guy and he’s not a registered Republican


71 posted on 10/24/2018 5:23:55 PM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: TigerClaws
Looks like a digital LCD clock you can get from Walmart for $6.23 with free shipping.

And the bomb looks like tin-foil wrapped around play-dough and stuffed in a tube with a wire stuck in each end. The other thing that is missing is a battery power supply to fire the detonators assuming that that cheap clock could even be wired to switch power to the supposed detonators.

72 posted on 10/24/2018 5:28:51 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: UNGN

Oh Lord, my beer just exited my mouth and spewed on my monitor!!


73 posted on 10/24/2018 5:35:08 PM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: usconservative

how much attention did the FakeNewsMSM give to any of the following?

8 Oct: IVN.us: A Blue Wave of Violence and Death Threats Against Republicans
by W. E. Messamore
https://ivn.us/2018/10/08/a-blue-wave-of-violence-and-threats-against-republicans/


74 posted on 10/24/2018 5:45:48 PM PDT by MAGAthon
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To: TigerClaws

The purpose is for the media to be able to scream and shout that the right is far more vio,ent than the left. That the right is the truly evil mob trying to buy you off with jobs. And besides, Donald Trump is the true instigator of all violence,
Vote BLUE for your own safety! Right?


75 posted on 10/24/2018 5:52:55 PM PDT by tinamina
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To: MAGAthon
Here's my thinking:

If the FBI or any Law Enforcement bomb squad thought for a moment that those "bombs" were real, wouldn't they have done a controlled detonation of them?

I'm no expert, that's just a guess on my part - perhaps too many cop shows on TV. Who knows. All I know is, something about this whole thing stinks to hell and back. I don't believe those "bombs" were real at all.

76 posted on 10/24/2018 5:57:21 PM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: Farmer Dean
Anybody see anything resembling a power source?

Nope.

77 posted on 10/24/2018 5:58:43 PM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

What do you think her spy ring was looking for?


78 posted on 10/24/2018 6:14:07 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: usconservative

Some democrat staffer bought a copy of bomb making for dummies.


79 posted on 10/24/2018 6:23:33 PM PDT by Rodm
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