Posted on 04/22/2006 10:44:17 PM PDT by bd476
WEST SACRAMENTO — A bomb squad was called in Saturday, after a man dropped a knapsack in a crowd of protesters outside a building President Bush was touring. Authorities later said it appeared to be a "sophisticated hoax device."
West Sacramento Deputy Police Chief Henry Serrano said the man dropped the knapsack in the middle of a street outside the California Fuel Cell Partnership, where Bush was giving an Earth Day talk on hydrogen fuel technology.
The suspect then ran into the crowd of about 1,500 protesters. Police who caught him said he appeared intoxicated and refused to identify himself.
The bomb squad later blasted the knapsack with a water cannon, and no explosives were found.
The bag, however, contained wires, junction boxes and heavy metal components fashioned "in a way that would lead one to not rule out that it was an explosive device," Serrano said. It appeared to be a sophisticated hoax, police said.
"The package was found while the president was in town. We're taking it very seriously," Serrano said.
Authorities said the suspect likely would be charged in the hoax. The man initially told officers that he found the bag and dropped it after being startled by its contents.
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Yolo County Supervisor Mariko Yamada said she was insulted Bush chose to celebrate Earth Day in her largely Democratic and environmentally conscious county, home of the "nuclear free zone" in the city of Davis.
'I just actually find it astounding and outrageous that he would come here on Earth Day," Yamada said. 'He's got one of the worst environmental records of all presidents in the last two to three decades...' "
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We're only headed there if we stop voting and if we stop speaking up.
Um. That would be an alleged talking head.
I have FNC on in the background and I have just counted the reporter using "alleged" FOUR times. Now that you have pointed out its over use, it's like Chinese water torture listening to the word being used repeatedly.
It's been alleged that it is 0'late 0'clock and allegedly, we should all be in our alleged beds now.
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FOTFLOL!
I cannot add to that or top it.
ROTFLOL!
No alleged about the hour here --- nearly 3:00AM!
Oh, how I miss CA.
We should start a Media's Incorrect and Overused Words List.
Gravitas...lol.
I have just posted my 71st thread!
WOO-HOO!
:-) Thanks for saying that Onyx. I'm also sorry though that you do miss it. Homesickness isn't much fun.
We should celebrate!
I'll be A-OK.
I just need a trip home every year.
July is just around the corner...allegedly.
Now cut that out!
LOL!
ALLEGED Gravitas.
Good night you two...stay outta trouble, will ya? ;)
You talking to me?
LOL! Okay.
Get some sleep and have a few good dreams.
Allegedly so, yes. :)
Nite!
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