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Box left at woman's door explodes (Home owned by oil company exec)
KTRK - ABC Houston ^ | Saturday, July 10, 2010 | Erik Barajas

Posted on 07/10/2010 6:36:36 AM PDT by Willie Green

HOUSTON (KTRK) -- Local and federal investigators were at a northwest Houston home Friday night where an explosion sent a woman to the hospital.

The woman was opening a package left at her doorstep in the 2100 block of Seamist Court Friday evening. She had found the shoe-sized box in front of her home about a day ago but didn't decide to open it until around 6:30pm Friday.

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The woman was transported to Northwest Memorial Hospital with facial injuries that are not life-threatening.

Officials with the Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, as well as the Houston Police Department's homicide and bomb squad were at the scene investigating.

It wasn't immediately clear whether the house was targeted, however, Eyewitness News found out the home is owned by an oil company executive.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: 0bamasfault; ayerslegacy; ecoterroists; ecoterrorists; greenieweenies; liberalfascism; liberalterrorists; mediablackout; nailbomb; obamasfault; obamavoters; pravdamedia
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To: Ditter

I think sometimes it’s a matter of being in shock, or denial of some sort - as far as opening a package you suspect may have something wrong with it.

I had an incident where a bunch of teens threw (what the policeman called) a crude “pipe bomb” onto my lawn. As the policeman said - they didn’t make it right though (thank God). Anyway, stupid me, I happen to be looking out the front window, see them drive by and throw the thing, and I see and hear what sounds like several firecrackers going off at once. There is a little smoke, but it’s not a big thing...

Ready for the idiotic part? I went and picked it up to see what the heck it was (instead of calling the police first). I had it in my hand when I was talking to the 911 operator and he yelled at me to throw it the heck back outside - just in case... It didn’t even occur to me that I was holding something that might not be “done” exploding until the 911 operator yelled at me, and then it hit me like a ton of bricks. I don’t think I’ve ever moved as fast as I did running to the front door to throw it back outside! LOL

I knew/know better than to pick up something like that, but I think I was in shock, really... Just not thinking at all - except about who the young men who threw it in my lawn were, and wondering why (I was working on a political campaign at the time, but I don’t think it had anything to do with that).

Anyway, I could see myself opening a package like this woman did. However, it’s strange that she kept it in her house without opening it, and then decided to outside. If she had that long to think about it, and she was obviously worried, then I don’t know why she chose to open it herself... She probably thought she was just being paranoid or something.

I hope her recovery is quick with minimal scarring. I’m glad she wasn’t hurt worse.

I also hope they find out who in the heck did this, and why... I’d say it’s likely this was a targeted attack - either personal, or related to her husband’s(?) job.


81 posted on 07/10/2010 10:24:03 AM PDT by LibertyRocks (http://libertyrocks.wordpress.com ~ Anti-Obama Gear: http://cafepress.com/NO_ObamaBiden08)
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To: library user; Travis McGee; Yossarian; Ernest_at_the_Beach; truth_seeker; lentulusgracchus; ...
The thing that is truly amazing is how it might seem no major crime could possibly go unsolved. And at the same time, how remote it seems to be able to piece just the right info together.

Fact is, it's often somewhere in between. And much of many investigations is not figuring out who did it...that might be figured out quickly...it's how to compile enough admissible evidence to get a conviction in court.

Anyone who is interested in stories about murders in the oil business or forensic geology might like books by Sarah Andrews, P.G., particularly her first two (Tensleep and A Fall in Denver). Tensleep covers life on the rig, and you can see some of the tensions between toolpusher and company man like what reportedly came into play in the Macondo (Deepwater Horizon) incident. A Fall in Denver peeks into the world of exploration companies back in the day.

(Also...pinging some folks who have been interested in the oil business, in case they might be interested in this thread.)

82 posted on 07/10/2010 10:24:22 AM PDT by Gondring (Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
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To: Allegra

Hi! :)


83 posted on 07/10/2010 10:25:53 AM PDT by Ditter
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To: Eva

The vision is hazy, but I am thinking that perhaps Vennie Wolf is his wife...perhaps co-owner of the house...

Yes, yes, I believe that is so.

And I think she’s in a zodiac sign starting with “S”...perhaps Scorpio or Sagitarius... 58 years old to his 69...? Hmmm...I know that contradicts reports of her being in her 60s, but all I can tell you is what the spirits tell me.


84 posted on 07/10/2010 10:29:57 AM PDT by Gondring (Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
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To: Gondring

I was reading that this morning but didn’t see the part about the connection to the oil exec. Very interesting....


85 posted on 07/10/2010 10:32:20 AM PDT by smokingfrog ( - Eccl. 10:18 -)
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To: Clara Lou

Zucchini too!


86 posted on 07/10/2010 10:33:07 AM PDT by APatientMan
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To: Willie Green

‘Domestic Terrorism’ with a Green Twist? Oh my.


87 posted on 07/10/2010 10:35:33 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard)
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To: tioga

Back when I was in high school, several of us went to a BBQ and the first of the three cars hit an armadillo on the way home. The second car (which I was in) stopped and picked it up. We met at the HS parking lot and carpooled to the event.

We decided to toss the “dead’ armadillo into a school bus. Never even looked which one it was, but the aradillo had just been stuned. It had crawled behind the tool box which was under the last seat for a nap. There was a chubby gal who thought that seat belonged to her.

As we were getting close to the HS, we had a rough railroad track to cross. As the bus was crossing the tracks, the armadillo must have had enough. It came out right between her legs and started running up the isle. She let out a blood curdling yell and pe’ed herself. Not ONE of us ever said a word for years.


88 posted on 07/10/2010 10:45:31 AM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (Remember in November. Clean the house on Nov. 2. / Progressive is a PC word for liberal democrat.)
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To: sport
If someone had not turned him in, he still would have not caught. So long as he wasn’t bombing abortion clinics, the authorties did not give a damn.

Yeah...assigning 150 personnel, conducting one of the most expensive investigations in the history of the FBI, and offering a $1,000,000 reward show a definite lack of concern. <sarc>

89 posted on 07/10/2010 10:49:25 AM PDT by Gondring (Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
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To: PghBaldy

“This is what happens when an out of control dictator named B Hussein Obama villifies oil company executives.”

You have it exactly right. I lay the blame right on Obama’s doorstep and his dimoKKKRAT cronies.


90 posted on 07/10/2010 10:50:21 AM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: Eva

Sounds like they live together. Found this link where they gave money together to the Engineering School in Houston:

http://www.egr.uh.edu/parameters/spring2008/?e=donor

???


91 posted on 07/10/2010 10:55:24 AM PDT by penelopesire ("Did you plug the hole yet daddy?")
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To: Willie Green

bfl


92 posted on 07/10/2010 10:57:48 AM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: penelopesire

So if it’s a business rival, will you loudly proclaim that it wasn’t an ecoterrorist and that it was a capitalist??


93 posted on 07/10/2010 10:58:05 AM PDT by Gondring (Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
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To: Clara Lou

If anyone ever wants to bomb me, just use an Amazon.com box, I’ll tear that sucker right open.


94 posted on 07/10/2010 11:02:03 AM PDT by PLMerite (The FR clock is now three minutes fast.)
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To: Willie Green

Thanks Obama. A divider not a uniter


95 posted on 07/10/2010 11:03:09 AM PDT by NCBraveheart (BARACK OBAMA....A GIANT SACK OF SUCK!)
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To: PLMerite
Actually, that's likely what a smart terrorist would do. Faking an amazon package wouldn't be that difficult. That alone likely shows it was some ecofreak; intelligence isn't exactly their forte.
96 posted on 07/10/2010 11:05:25 AM PDT by FourPeas (God Save America)
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To: Willie Green

Terrorism. Know your enemy.


97 posted on 07/10/2010 11:05:58 AM PDT by popdonnelly (Democrats = authoritarian socialists)
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To: penelopesire

Note that it’s a broadcast transcript, so the hyphen in “Surprise-Package Explosion” is missing.


98 posted on 07/10/2010 11:05:58 AM PDT by Gondring (Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
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To: PLMerite
If anyone ever wants to bomb me, just use an Amazon.com box, I’ll tear that sucker right open.

Thank you for the laugh of the day!

99 posted on 07/10/2010 11:06:53 AM PDT by Gondring (Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
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To: Gondring

Just the truth..that’s all I ask.


100 posted on 07/10/2010 11:07:20 AM PDT by penelopesire ("Did you plug the hole yet daddy?")
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