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Happy Ramadan, everyone.
Interesting. A bomb was found a few months ago on highway 41 (the road to Yosemite national park) in the middle of the road. Amazing how these things just happen to keep turning up isn't it?
Ping.
Where is Midvale? Nice to see an area in the title...
IMPORTANT UPDATE:
According to authorities the device found was 2 m80s taped together.
Here are the stories being run in the Bruin today:
Most not flustered by scare at apartment
http://www.dailybruin.ucla.edu/news/articles.asp?id=34409
2 m80s taped together...
Explosives examined
2 juveniles suspected in investigation of incident at Westwood apartment
http://www.dailybruin.ucla.edu/news/articles.asp?id=34439
My Question - wouldn't an average person be able to tell what an m80 was by looking at it? Why would they vacate that many people if it was just a firecracker (even an m80)?
Granted, this looks like a prank at this point (unless they are lying about what was found...). I'm very relieved to tell you the truth. The "pattern" has been disrupted so to speak...
However, the report 18wheeler gave earlier in the thread
( http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1500074/posts?page=67#67 ) about what his wife which happened just 2 blocks south of this event when she saw with smoke and fumes and heard 2 explosions gives more cause for concern at this point. The reports of those events are curiously absent from media.
Small Apartment Blasts Were Firecrackers
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
October 12, 2005
Two small explosions last week in a Midvale Plaza apartment complex were caused by M-80 firecrackers, Los Angeles police said Tuesday.
The first explosion, before 8 a.m. Friday, was the result of one of the large firecrackers going off in the 500 block of Midvale Avenue, said LAPD Officer April Harding.
The bomb squad responded after a second, unexploded device was found about 11 a.m. That firecracker was remotely detonated about two hours later, Harding said.
M-80s, often used to simulate fire by the military, have been known to maim. They are illegal to possess and have been classified as dangerous explosives.
LAPD Officer Sarah Faden said no arrests have been made in connection with the incident.