Couple months back the Harrisonburg (VA) Daily News Record (which Grandma subscribes me to religiously every year) had shots of two "Bomb Squad" guys responding to a metal briefcase left adjacent to a convienience store at the pay phone.
The bozo's are totally in civilian clothing examining it, and then they decide to remotely detonate the "package" with what from the effects appeared to be a remote operated 10 guage with a slug. The reporter clicked the shutter perfectly to record, in midair, blasted briefcase, expensive laptop, headsets, periferal cards etc.
If it actually had been a decently made bomb, detonating it next to a building with a rack of gasoline pumps 20 feet away probably wasn't the doings of the sharpest knife in the drawer...
This steel-encased briefcase was discovered outside of the Royal Food Mart on East Market Street Saturday morning, just yards from the store’s gas pumps. The Loudoun County Bomb Squad was called in and members of the squad detonated the briefcase in the afternoon. A computer, left by a traveler, was inside.