Pipe bomb explodes at Hinsdale Metra station

Daily Herald ^ | 09/01/06 | Harry Hitzeman

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A crude pipe bomb exploded this morning in a garbage can inside the Hinsdale Metra station lobby, but no one was injured and authorities said the incident was not a terrorist act.

Thomas Ahern, special agent with the U.S. Bureau of Tobacco, Alcohol and Firearms, said authorities had a “person of interest” in custody and were questioning him.

“It’s too early to know any motive,” he said, noting authorities were still interviewing the suspect, as well as train passengers. “It is what we could characterize as an improvised explosive device.”

Ahern said ATF officials worked with Hinsdale police, the FBI and the DuPage County Bomb Squad to comb other stations along the Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad.

No other devices were found.

“It really had very little if any impact on the morning commute,” Ahern said.

Metra spokesman Tom Miller said late this morning the Hinsdale station was open and trains were stopping there.

At 6:53 a.m., a Metra employee called police to report “someone just threw a firecracker” into a garbage can at the Hinsdale depot, police said.

Shortly after the call, the fire alarm activated, but there was no extensive damage, police said.

Hinsdale police said witnesses saw the suspect board the 6:56 a.m. or 7:04 a.m. train to Chicago.

“At this time, we do not have any reason to believe this was a terrorist act,” police said in a statement

[jonascord]

It's on the other side of the GALAXY from the Nation of Islam...

[Dumpster Baby]

[July 4th]

Actually, Hinsdale has a large population of 7th Day Adventists.

[IZ-Contractor]

someone called to report a firecracker....

I don't care how crude a pipe bomb is, there's a significant difference between that and any given firecracker. Wrapping tape around it does not make it a 'crude pipe bomb'

now....putting a firecracker into a papertube stuffed with FFF grain powder, wrapping a lot of masking tape around it, and solid capping the ends with epoxy...that would 'legally' be a crude pipe bomb...a F'ing retarded ineffectual non detonating one...but legally, yea.

ya know..just saying...

[stylin19a]

“It’s too early to know any motive,”

but we know it's not terror...
morons.

[Charles Henrickson]

I think it was Swedish Lutherans. A can of surströmming (fermented herring) could blow up half of Hinsdale.

[wideawake]

As the crow flies, yes.

It'll take you 11 minutes on the Metra from Kenwood to downtown Chicago and 21 minutes on the express to Hinsdale.

[wideawake]

Just take the straightaway down 79th Street. And keep your doors locked.

[wideawake]

In terms of the background of its denizens, yes. But it isn't that far a commute.

[1rudeboy]

The Kenwood stop is at 47th St. Mosque Maryam is at 73rd. Even if you found the über-connection, there is no way. NO WAY.

[jonascord]

I grew up in Hindale, and Elijah Muhammed was only a face on the evening news. The 7th Day Adventists were left over from when the Hinsdale San was still a tuberculosis sanitarium, on 55th st.

[bcsco]

I knew it! The word HAS gotten out. Yet there's hope; no word on the real deep throat operatives...Swen, Ole, Lars & Lena. The movement lives on!!!

[bcsco]

If not the surströmming, it had to be the Zulz or Spikganz hid in the waste basket by a German named Heinz.

[retrokitten]

LMAO! About 3 feet.

[1rudeboy]

Maybe 300ft if they are in a spotless Benz. But then it would be a tactical traffic stop.

[1rudeboy]

Dude, you are seriously confused. I can't even figure out with what suburban community you are confusing Hinsdale.

[kAcknor]

!LOL!

[OB1kNOb]

Don't make us get medieval on your hiney!

[conservative in nyc]

It'll take you 11 minutes on the Metra from Kenwood to downtown Chicago and 21 minutes on the express to Hinsdale.

And then there's that little issue of getting from the Millenium or Van Buren Metra stop, where the Metra trains from Kenwood go in the Loop, to Union Station, where the Metra train to Hinsdale leaves. And the little issue of coordinating schedules on trains that don't run as often as the El. You'd be lucky to be able to get from Kenwood to Hinsdale in an hour using public transit.

[Jack Wilson]

I grew up in Hindale..

Me too. HC graduate 1970