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Package explosion at East Austin home leaves one dead, one injured
CBSAustin.com ^ | March 12, 2018

Posted on 03/12/2018 7:08:18 AM PDT by rdl6989

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To: rdl6989

The "Parts and Parcels" mayor of London is in Austin Texas today....

coincidence... maybe...

41 posted on 03/12/2018 10:28:50 AM PDT by GraceG ("It's better to have all the Right Enemies, than it is to have all the Wrong Friends.")
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To: ilovesarah2012

“Both he and the victims of the Monday explosion were African-American, the AP reports, adding that police are seeking surveillance video from nearby homes in order to identify a suspect.”


42 posted on 03/12/2018 10:30:40 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: rdl6989

“If you receive a package that you are not expecting or looks suspicious, DO NOT open it, call 911 immediately. RT- Help us spread this message.”


43 posted on 03/12/2018 10:39:09 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Wear an orange pin to mourn the victims of the Tide Pods Challenge.)
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Yet another explosion in Austin has left an elderly woman with life threatening injuries:

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/03/12/austin-package-explosion-leaves-teen-dead-woman-hurt-after-second-blast-in-2-weeks.html


44 posted on 03/12/2018 10:39:30 AM PDT by rdl6989
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To: rdl6989

Newer tweet from the Austin police department

“If you receive a package that you are not expecting or looks suspicious, DO NOT open it, call 911 immediately. RT- Help us spread this message.”


https://www.facebook.com/WFLANewsChannel8

Channel 8 news is streaming live from the scene.


45 posted on 03/12/2018 10:39:50 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Wear an orange pin to mourn the victims of the Tide Pods Challenge.)
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Since three bombs, two today, have gone off in Austin could we maybe move this to front or breaking?


46 posted on 03/12/2018 10:40:25 AM PDT by rdl6989
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To: ilovesarah2012

Thanks, I’ve asked the moderators to move this to front page or breaking.


47 posted on 03/12/2018 10:41:19 AM PDT by rdl6989
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To: PapaBear3625

I use Amazon a lot and have never seen a private vehicle deliver anything.


48 posted on 03/12/2018 10:42:01 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: ilovesarah2012

The private deliveries are a new thing with Amazon, and they seem to require only a clean drivers license and an insured vehicle. They deliver this way all over the place in Jacksonville now.


49 posted on 03/12/2018 10:43:54 AM PDT by livius
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Makes sense I guess. Amazon has a lot of packages to deliver.


50 posted on 03/12/2018 10:52:25 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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I have a co-worker who got an Amazon delivery from a private vehicle. There was some kind of marking added to the vehicle.

He first thought that the driver sitting in his driveway was lost and checking location but it turns out his son had ordered something.


51 posted on 03/12/2018 10:53:41 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Wear an orange pin to mourn the victims of the Tide Pods Challenge.)
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To: pinkandgreenmom

Austin’s MLK, Jr St. neighborhoods are gentrifying. The near east side was traditionally small, minority-owned homes. Hipsters are now moving into the condos that are springing up in that area. Community activists don’t like it, no.


52 posted on 03/12/2018 11:22:41 AM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: rdl6989

So far, both targets named are black.
It is as likely the left creating the bombings to try to prove the KKK types are resurgent (as proven by all the fake hate crimes by blacks, Muslims, etc) as such groups actually doing something like this.

http://fakehatecrimes.org/


53 posted on 03/12/2018 11:59:21 AM PDT by tbw2
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To: GraceG

How queer, Bernie Sanders also came to Austin for his first SXSW appearance. Has a lot more look of being a Commie globalist conference than a supposed music-film-gaming-tech conference.


54 posted on 03/12/2018 11:59:31 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Wear an orange pin to mourn the victims of the Tide Pods Challenge.)
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To: rdl6989

Austin police scanner https://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/14439/web


55 posted on 03/12/2018 12:25:23 PM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: a fool in paradise
All packages are photographed?

I did not know that...if true.

I know they are scanned...but by ZIPS..and USPS labels.

56 posted on 03/12/2018 12:28:59 PM PDT by Osage Orange (Whiskey Tango Foxtrot)
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To: PghBaldy

Thanks.


57 posted on 03/12/2018 12:32:15 PM PDT by rdl6989
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To: Osage Orange

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/03/us/postal-service-confirms-photographing-all-us-mail.html

Postal Service Confirms Photographing All U.S. Mail
By RON NIXONAUG. 2, 2013

The Postal Service on Friday confirmed that it takes a photograph of every letter and package mailed in the United States — about 160 billion pieces last year — and occasionally provides the photos to law enforcement agencies that request them as part of criminal cases.

The images are taken at more than 200 processing plants around the country and are used primarily to help the agency sort mail, the postmaster general, Patrick R. Donahoe, said in an interview with The Associated Press.

But Mr. Donahoe said that the images had been used “a couple of times” by law enforcement to trace letters in criminal cases, including one involving ricin-laced letters sent to President Obama and Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg of New York. The images of letters and packages are generally stored for a week to 30 days and then destroyed, he told the A.P...


58 posted on 03/12/2018 12:32:32 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Wear an orange pin to mourn the victims of the Tide Pods Challenge.)
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To: Osage Orange

These packaged were not mailed. Attempts are being made to check for any security cameras that might show someone dropping off the trapped packages.


59 posted on 03/12/2018 12:33:32 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Wear an orange pin to mourn the victims of the Tide Pods Challenge.)
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To: a fool in paradise

Never knew that....


60 posted on 03/12/2018 12:43:06 PM PDT by Osage Orange (Whiskey Tango Foxtrot)
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