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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M-80’s, firecrackers, pipe bomb, dynamite....... WHAT?...
HAVE THESE GUYS BEEN DIRECTED TO SAY THAT, OR ARE THEY ALL MUSLIMS? UNBELIEVABLE!
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.
...Jesse James?
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.
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.
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.
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..
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