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A few observations from a former bomb disposal officer...
ThreadReader ^ | 10/24/2018 | Tom Sauer

Posted on 10/24/2018 12:11:22 PM PDT by bkopto

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. "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.

4. 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.


TOPICS: Conspiracy; Politics
KEYWORDS: 2018midterms; cesarsayoc; hoaxbombs; mailbombs; octobersurprise; stripper
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To: IamConservative

Because they knew to expect it, opened it themselves.
Note uncanceled stamps as another poster noted above.


81 posted on 10/24/2018 12:57:16 PM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: bkopto
clock-boy

C'mon I only mailed them a CLOCK!

82 posted on 10/24/2018 12:58:25 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: palmer

re: “Lots of odd sized mail is not canceled.”

That has not been my experience, but YMMV.


83 posted on 10/24/2018 12:59:10 PM PDT by _Jim (democrats create mobs. Republicans create jobs.)
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To: bkopto

Furthermore, who puts a TIMER on a MAIL BOMB?

What, you calculated the exact time it would take the UPS to deliver the package, then the time it would take the target to open the package, and then 10 seconds after that????

Silly.

This is the work of Wile E. Democrat, Genius.


84 posted on 10/24/2018 12:59:13 PM PDT by Lazamataz (The News Misleadia will be held accountable for their lies.....on the eleventy-first of Nevervember.)
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To: Darksheare

I get plenty of odd-sized mail with uncanceled stamps. Primarily it is large junk mail with old numismatic stamps which sell for less than face value. Those junk mailers use those kind of stamps to save a little money. They are almost always uncanceled.


85 posted on 10/24/2018 1:00:48 PM PDT by palmer (...if we do not have strong families and strong values, then we will be weak and we will not survive)
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To: palmer

It’s heavier than 13 ounces.
It wouldn’t have been mailed at all.
I.E. it’s faker than a three dollar bill.


86 posted on 10/24/2018 1:01:35 PM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: BlueLancer

Excellent point.
Bet that Democrat Antifa leftists did this!

RE:
How could that many pieces of “mail”, supposedly mailed from one person go to all of these places and arrive on the same day ... pretty much at the same hour.

Heck, I can mail four letters to four different people, all living in the same town, and normally have them arrive on different days.


87 posted on 10/24/2018 1:02:31 PM PDT by MarchonDC09122009 (When is our next march on DC? When have we had enough?)
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To: _Jim

These packages were undoubtedly sent through the mail to the destinations, not delivered some other way. Someone might have expected it or be in the know at CNN. But the Secret Service isn’t going to lie about the origin of the presidential / first lady packages.


88 posted on 10/24/2018 1:03:08 PM PDT by palmer (...if we do not have strong families and strong values, then we will be weak and we will not survive)
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To: anton

false flag


89 posted on 10/24/2018 1:03:43 PM PDT by DOC44
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To: palmer

Bulk mail stamps are precancelled. Cannot be used if you’re not a bulk mailer.
These are first class stamps. There’s not enough of them and they would have been cancelled.


90 posted on 10/24/2018 1:04:29 PM PDT by weston (As far as I'm concerned, it's Christ or nothing)
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To: Darksheare

The packages that arrived for former POTUS Obama and first lady Clinton came in the mail, according to the Secret Service. It’s likely all the packages came in the mail. But it is possible the CNN is a one-off for the cameras and didn’t come in the mail.


91 posted on 10/24/2018 1:05:18 PM PDT by palmer (...if we do not have strong families and strong values, then we will be weak and we will not survive)
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To: IamConservative


Notice the clorox bleach wipes in the photo, that was to wipe their prints off it just after building it in the CNN studio
92 posted on 10/24/2018 1:07:25 PM PDT by Scythian_Reborn
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To: weston

1. Sending 5 or 10 packages is not bulk mail. 2. The old numismatic stamps (mainly 50’s, 60’s, 70’s commemoratives) are not precanceled. I get those quite often on large envelope junk mail.


93 posted on 10/24/2018 1:07:33 PM PDT by palmer (...if we do not have strong families and strong values, then we will be weak and we will not survive)
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To: palmer
Lots of odd sized mail is not canceled.

I can't ever remember seeing uncanceled stamps on any USPS mail in my six decades.

94 posted on 10/24/2018 1:07:50 PM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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95 posted on 10/24/2018 1:08:39 PM PDT by musicman (The future is just a collection of successive nows.)
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To: palmer

re: “These packages were undoubtedly sent through the mail to the destinations, not delivered some other way. “

If you can actually read some of what is posted here, you will find arguments with good, solid basis against your thesis, notwithstanding several reports of “hand delivery” of said bombs.


96 posted on 10/24/2018 1:09:37 PM PDT by _Jim (democrats create mobs. Republicans create jobs.)
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To: palmer

An operation designed to sow discord, if not panic, right before a national US election. Who have we been recently told would, and is, attempting such operations?

China.
Rissia.
Iran.

My bet’s on Iran. They may find footage of the guy, but he’s long gone. And no fingerprints or traceability will be found.


97 posted on 10/24/2018 1:09:40 PM PDT by Basket_of_Deplorables (Benedict Sessions.)
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To: Scythian_Reborn
Notice the clorox bleach wipes in the photo, that was to wipe their prints off it just after building it in the CNN studio

It's possible the CNN package is a one-off for the cameras. But the packages intercepted by the SS are real, according to the SS. They might be different, but they were sent through the mail from someone else.

That said, the whole thing, all the packages, look like a deliberate "intimidation" campaign. That will be the fake news meme and they will blame Trump.

98 posted on 10/24/2018 1:10:34 PM PDT by palmer (...if we do not have strong families and strong values, then we will be weak and we will not survive)
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To: epluribus_2

This was all designed for no other purpose except to get the truly idiotic news media raving on about something other than the “caravan” coming to our border. That was turning into a giant loser for them and they needed any excuse to breathlessly rage on about something else.

This is monumentally stupid.


99 posted on 10/24/2018 1:11:46 PM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast
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To: _Jim

“Hand delivery” won’t mean very much if this is just a hoax bomb campaign. In that case it is all for show and doesn’t matter how they are delivered. That said, the SS says the former POTUS and former first lady packages came in the mail. I am inclined to believe the SS was not duped by some sort of hand delivery.


100 posted on 10/24/2018 1:12:58 PM PDT by palmer (...if we do not have strong families and strong values, then we will be weak and we will not survive)
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