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'Suicide Bomber-Type’ Vest Found In Mt. Washington (Pennsylvania)
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| April 2, 2009
Posted on 04/03/2009 3:38:46 AM PDT by Stoat
'Suicide Bomber-Type Vest Found In Mt. Washington
Updated: 5:14 pm EDT April 2, 2009
MOUNT WASHINGTON, Pa. -- Workers cleaning out a house in Mt. Washington called police when they found a device with what looked like pipe bombs with wires and nails attached.
"It looked exactly like somebody would wear in a suicide bomber-type of scene or suicide bomber- type of incident," said Sheldon Williams, of the Pittsburgh police bomb squad. The device was found outside 559 Southern Avenue late Thursday morning while workers from Pittsburgh Iron and Scrap Metal were picking up scrap metal. While loading materials into their truck, they noticed a device and called authorities.
The bomb squad arrived and, using the squads robot, police were able to get a closer look at the device. It had a vest, he said. The pipe bombs were in a series, meaning they were all linked together.
There was a wire coming out of it with a plunger on the end of it, Williams said. The bomb squad detonated one of the pipe bombs at the scene. The other three pipe bombs in the vest could not be opened and were taken to a private destination for further testing and detonation.
"It could totally be a hoax device, said Williams. But we would not make that determination upon arrival. Part of the investigation will include locating the previous tenants that neighbors said kept to themselves.
They were a younger crowd, said neighbor Sharon Summerville. They were into weird art work and stuff like that." Investigators said they could not determine if there was explosive residue inside the pipes. Samples were sent to the crime lab for further testing.
If even the vest is proved a hoax, police said they could still pursue charges against whoever created the look-a-like explosive device.
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Pennsylvania; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 559southernavenue; bombvest; mtwashington; nails; pennsylvania; pipebomb; pipebombs; suicidebomber; suicidevest; tm; vest
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posted on
04/03/2009 3:38:50 AM PDT
by
Stoat
To: Stoat
Sounds like Amish Jihad to me.
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posted on
04/03/2009 3:40:47 AM PDT
by
Rebelbase
To: Tribune7; martin_fierro
They were a younger crowd, said neighbor Sharon Summerville. They were into weird art work and stuff like that." But did they get federal funding to produce suicide-bomber-vest art?
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posted on
04/03/2009 3:43:42 AM PDT
by
Stoat
(Palin / Coulter 2012: A Strong America Through Unapologetic Conservatism)
To: Squantos; backhoe; Oorang; Velveeta; Godzilla; Jet Jaguar
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posted on
04/03/2009 3:44:25 AM PDT
by
Cindy
To: Rebelbase
Sounds like Amish Jihad to me.LMAO
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posted on
04/03/2009 3:47:42 AM PDT
by
Stoat
(Palin / Coulter 2012: A Strong America Through Unapologetic Conservatism)
To: Stoat; Cindy
” The bomb squad detonated one of the pipe bombs at the scene. “
Hmmmmm.... Assuming that the reporter knows the difference between ‘detonated’ and ‘disrupted’, (admittedly not a particularly safe assumption) this doesn’t sound like a ‘hoax’ or ‘art project’ to me.....
Ping to Cindy - you might find this interesting....
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posted on
04/03/2009 3:48:07 AM PDT
by
Uncle Ike
(At some point, government has to be the next bubble to burst. (H/T Freeper This_far))
To: Uncle Ike
Yep, I already shared this article.
No, I didn’t get that “artsy” feel, either.
Hoping more details become available.
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posted on
04/03/2009 3:49:37 AM PDT
by
Cindy
To: martin_fierro; SoothingDave
Jihadists want a room with a view?
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posted on
04/03/2009 3:49:46 AM PDT
by
xsmommy
To: Stoat
To: All
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/s_619026.html
“’Scary’ situation involving possible pipe bombs in Mt. Washington defused”
By Jill King Greenwood
TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Friday, April 3, 2009
SNIPPET: “Four suspected pipe bombs wrapped in a vest and linked with wires in Mt. Washington looked dangerous enough to “make the hair on our necks stand up,” a Pittsburgh bomb squad detective said Thursday.
“They were wrapped in a nylon vest resembling a suicide bomber and wired together with end caps and detonators,” Detective Sheldon Williams said of the bundle found in a curbside trash pile on Southern Avenue just before noon. “If they (were) real, they could have done some real damage.”
Police detonated two of the pipes and were testing what remained while detectives try to determine who left the items on the curb and why.
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“That trash has been sitting there since Friday night, and it’s a miracle a kid or someone else didn’t wander by and pick one of those bombs up,” said Lester Petrovich, 22, who lives a few doors away.”
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posted on
04/03/2009 3:59:56 AM PDT
by
Cindy
To: Uncle Ike
“Blew up” is probably the correct description here, but a journalist-critter probably though detonated sounded more impressive. SOMETHING obviously detonated, but it may well have been the device police used to blow up the object, and not the object itself.
To: Cindy
” Police detonated two of the pipes “
Thanks, Cindy...
More detail, but still begs the question how one ‘detonates’ a ‘fake’ pipe bomb — apparently that’s the word the police are using, and not just reporter-speak....
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posted on
04/03/2009 4:04:59 AM PDT
by
Uncle Ike
(At some point, government has to be the next bubble to burst. (H/T Freeper This_far))
To: Cindy
Totally off-topic, but I would have thought no one under age 60, or maybe even 70, was named “Lester”. It’s sort of like Mildred.
To: Stoat
They were a younger crowd, said neighbor Sharon Summerville. They were into weird art work and stuff like that."Sounds like hippies into performance art.
Hippies like Ayers and Dohrn.
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posted on
04/03/2009 4:11:27 AM PDT
by
Fresh Wind
(Hey, Obama! Where's my check?)
To: Fresh Wind
Hippies like Ayers and Dohrn.
Indeed they could have been. I wouldn't rule anything out at this early stage of the game and with so little information.
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posted on
04/03/2009 4:13:41 AM PDT
by
Stoat
(Palin / Coulter 2012: A Strong America Through Unapologetic Conservatism)
To: Stoat
“I wouldn’t rule anything out at this early stage of the game and with so little information.”
I agree.
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posted on
04/03/2009 4:24:10 AM PDT
by
Cindy
To: GovernmentShrinker
Blew up is probably the correct description here Yea, it blowed up good. It blowed up real good!
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posted on
04/03/2009 4:45:31 AM PDT
by
mc5cents
(Show me just what Mohammd brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman)
To: spectre; truthkeeper; processing please hold; antceecee; navymom1; jaredt112; Edgerunner; ...
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posted on
04/03/2009 4:54:29 AM PDT
by
bcsco
(I'm a Constitution defender!)
To: Cindy
Thanks Cindy. Doesn’t sound like an art project to me.
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04/03/2009 7:20:07 AM PDT
by
Oorang
(Tyranny thrives best where government need not fear the wrath of an armed people - Alex Kozinski)
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