oh, and the Village People, 'cuz they blowed up real good.
Posted on 09/01/2006 9:43:36 AM PDT by Freedumb
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
I'm confusing it with Hinsdale, IL.
By the Hinsdale Golf Club, where I would sometimes go when I was at the U of C.
Is there another Hinsdale in Chicagoland?
I forgot that the Metra to 59th St. doesn't go up to Union Station.
A well-off white community that isn't actually a gated community.
Interesting. Hinsdale is one of the wealthier west suburbs.
Great. Maybe you are not familiar with NOI headquarters at 73rd and South Stony Island? Please tell me specifically the route you would take to get between the two points in 15 minutes. I'm curious because I'd like to try it . . . in other words, I'm not afraid to try it at 2AM on a weeknight with absolutely no regard for the law.
I used to live at 59th and Harper.
You can't get between those two points in 15 minutes, I agree.
But you can go down 79th to Cork and get on the tollway to Hinsdale. That's like 10 miles on 79th St. and like 5ish miles on the tollway.
That 10mi on 79th is bad unless you hit greens all the way.
Fair enough. Are you aware that the Hinsdale Metra Station isn't near the golf course you reference? That would add some more time. I didn't mean to get on you, but I was curious to see how you could do it. (Nickname: "navigator")
It can't be much more than a mile or two miles down Chicago Ave, right? I've driven past it.
And the station is closer to the tollway than the golf club, right?
I'm only marginally familiar with the Hinsdale Metra stop (more familiar with others on the line), but I've walked the (immediate) area . . . my recollection is that it is not located in such a manner that one could approach it at a high rate of speed. :)
HTHS Class of '69. I am pretty sure I'm the only one in my class to enlist. After the Marine Corps, never went back...
This is Hinsdale trivia, but Hinsdale Golf Club is actually in the next town West, Clarendon Hills.
The Hinsdale CC is up on 47th, west of 83 (now Kingery Rd), actually in Clarendon Hills, across from Prospect Park, and stretched up to Ogden Ave. 2 miles from downtown Hinsdale, minimum.
Thank you for the reassurance.
What if he tossed it at a switch?
Any way Argonne and Batavia are bigger targets.
Two Amtrak trains were cancelled and a third was delayed for two hours while explosives technicians removed and then detonated a small pipe bomb from an area near a railroad track causeway Thursday in Yolo County.The 6-inch piece of plastic pipe, about 1 to 2 inches in diameter, was found about eight feet from the track in the Yolo bypass area between West Sacramento and Davis at around 10:45 a.m. by a Union Pacific Railroad track worker.
Homemade device is found near train tracks, forcing them to be closed for several hoursBomb squad technicians detonated a pipe bomb found near train tracks in Antioch on Monday morning.
City maintenance crews cleaning up the area reported finding the device at 8:16 a.m. near the Burlington North Santa Fe Railroad trestle on Fulton Shipyard Road, Sgt. Larry Hopwood said. etc.
Very quick search shows other pipe bomb incidents along RR tracks. See posts 76 and 77 on this thread.
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