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Explosive Device Set Off on Virginia Train Tracks, Feds Say
FoxNews ^ | 1-28-01 | EDCOIL

Posted on 01/28/2010 8:58:19 AM PST by edcoil

Federal officials say they are investigating an explosive device that was set off on train tracks near a college campus in Harrisonburg, Va.

Rich Marianos, a spokesman for the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearm, said local residents reported hearing a boom about 6:30 a.m. Thursday. He said local police have investigated and determined there was an explosive device on train tracks near the campus of James Madison University at Cheapeake Street and Cantrell Avenue.

He said there were no injuries and terrorism is not suspected

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: explosives; harrisonburg; jmu; rail; shenandoahvalley
Terrorism is not suspected when explosives are on a train track? What is it then - standard equipment?
1 posted on 01/28/2010 8:58:20 AM PST by edcoil
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To: edcoil

M-80’s, firecrackers, pipe bomb, dynamite....... WHAT?...


2 posted on 01/28/2010 9:02:05 AM PST by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole....)
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To: edcoil

HAVE THESE GUYS BEEN DIRECTED TO SAY THAT, OR ARE THEY ALL MUSLIMS? UNBELIEVABLE!


3 posted on 01/28/2010 9:02:22 AM PST by Paperdoll ( PLEASE FORGIVE THE CAPS. I HAVE M.D.)
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To: edcoil

The same thing has happened recently in Russia and they are calling it terrorism. If this is an isloated incident, they they may be right that it is not. However, if this keeps up the gov’t needs to call it what it is.


4 posted on 01/28/2010 9:03:25 AM PST by fourmation599 (Obama: Hope and Change? More like Taxes and Treason!)
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To: edcoil
Well, since "terrorism is not expected", that leaves...

...Jesse James?

5 posted on 01/28/2010 9:04:48 AM PST by SIDENET ("If that's your best, your best won't do." -Dee Snider)
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I am so fed up with situations like this immediately determined it is not terrorism related..........

How could officials know that a plane that crashes moments after take off, and sinks to the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea determine the crash was not terror related.


6 posted on 01/28/2010 9:11:00 AM PST by beericus (Putting the cool in conservatism, dip in the hip and a glid in the stride.)
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To: hosepipe

WEll, there hasn’t been a terrorist attack yet under Obama, according to Obama....man caused disasters???

And the killings in Texas recently, was also a terrorist attack.


7 posted on 01/28/2010 9:11:12 AM PST by Freddd (CNN is not credible.)
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To: edcoil

Well, I suppose I can admit to this because the statute of limitations has passed...

When I was a kid, we put about everything on the train tracks. Coins, toys, toothpaste tubes, firecrackers.... maybe an M-80... but I don’t recall. I’ll plead the fifth there.


8 posted on 01/28/2010 9:16:09 AM PST by Fido969 ("The hardest thing in the world to understand is income tax." - Albert Einstein)
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To: hosepipe

M80 duct taped to a can of Ether Starter Fluid. The perfect fire ball. Many moons ago.


9 posted on 01/28/2010 9:28:04 AM PST by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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[ M80 duct taped to a can of Ether Starter Fluid. The perfect fire ball. Many moons ago. ]

"WE" filled balloons with natural gas.. tied parafined thread to them... and lit "the fuse"... for entertainment..

10 posted on 01/28/2010 9:55:37 AM PST by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole....)
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