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Officials: Feds left explosives training material on Loudoun school bus
inside nova ^ | March 30, 2016 | unknown

Posted on 03/30/2016 8:26:32 PM PDT by CJ Wolf

A maintenance worker found explosives training materials on a Loudoun County public school bus Wednesday.

Authorities quickly determined the explosives material was left there after training last week conducted by a federal agency.

“The explosive training material was in a benign state and could not be activated through normal operation of the bus,” Loudoun school officials said in a note emailed to parents.

During the training exercise, the bus was parked at Briar Woods High School. It was placed back in service Monday and Tuesday to carry students back and forth from Rock Ridge High School, and Buffalo Trail and Pinebrook elementary schools.

“This evening, [school] officials are attempting to contact parents of students who might have ridden the bus while the training material was on board,” school officials said.

“Loudoun County Public Schools’ Safety and Security Office is in communication with the Sheriff’s Office and federal officials regarding this matter,” the note said.

Authorities did not identify which federal agency was involved or exactly what the explosives material was.


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: lcps; loudouncounty
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so they put real explosives on a school bus over spring break for training exercise by the feds. local employee finds it today. Don't know nothing else. This don't pass my smell test and it's the same damn school my son is. I got the email.
1 posted on 03/30/2016 8:26:32 PM PDT by CJ Wolf
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Wow, next thing u know they’ll be selling assault weapons to Narco-terrorists.


2 posted on 03/30/2016 8:28:53 PM PDT by gaijin
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what federal agency is placing explosives on a real school bus used by real kids?


3 posted on 03/30/2016 8:29:05 PM PDT by CJ Wolf ( !)
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Imagine if a private company did that! Feds, no biggie!


4 posted on 03/30/2016 8:32:20 PM PDT by lodi90 (Clear choice for Conservatives now: TRUMP or lose)
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Most explosives training materials are inert. Now if they were live, that is really serious.

Let’s wait a few days until all the information is gathered and released.

I’m more worried about when DC gets hit by a subway bomber, at the Verizon Center, a baseball game, or concert on the Mall.


5 posted on 03/30/2016 8:35:32 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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Probably run by a son of 0buttbongo..


6 posted on 03/30/2016 8:37:50 PM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: lodi90

Good point


7 posted on 03/30/2016 8:38:33 PM PDT by ameribbean expat
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And they do not even know if some of the kids might have taken some of the bomb training material home. Obviously they have no inventory of what was left. Apparently terrorism is to government as mayhem is to insurance companies. Both want some, but not too much.
8 posted on 03/30/2016 8:38:58 PM PDT by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

The quote implies that there was just no blasting cap or detcord nearby. It sounds like it was real material, and they tried to gloss it over.


9 posted on 03/30/2016 8:39:00 PM PDT by lefty-lie-spy (Stay metal. For the Horde \m/("_")\m/ - via iPhone from Tokyo.)
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I think it’s a biggie. Any sane person would know not to allow the feds or anyone for that matter to put bombs on school buses for any reason.

Recently during a bomb threat in ashburn. Students were evacuated and put on school buses, where they found the fed placed bomb.

http://www.loudountimes.com/news/article/bomb_threat_at_stone_bridge_high_school_has_students_evacuated432


10 posted on 03/30/2016 8:40:00 PM PDT by CJ Wolf ( !)
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That was bright.


11 posted on 03/30/2016 8:40:00 PM PDT by madison10
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it says not dangerous with normal operation of the bus. Which means it wasn’t tied into the ignition or speed of the bus. It was underneath is implied. Detonators could have been remote but it was real material.


12 posted on 03/30/2016 8:42:39 PM PDT by CJ Wolf ( !)
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Real explosives would have to be transported in a special vehicle.

13 posted on 03/30/2016 8:43:24 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

“I’m more worried about when DC gets hit by a subway bomber, at the Verizon Center, a baseball game, or concert on the Mall.”

Yeah, well my kids go to these schools. This is pretty insane.


14 posted on 03/30/2016 8:45:23 PM PDT by CJ Wolf ( !)
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Which means it wasn’t tied into the ignition or speed of the bus


15 posted on 03/30/2016 8:48:48 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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why do you send your son to the government school?

It’s free? Lots of things are free that are not good!

homeschooling not an option?

Priorities....


16 posted on 03/30/2016 8:50:44 PM PDT by BereanBrain
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I would hope the “training material” was inert. Then again, if they were going to exercise dogs or try out their latest electronic sniffer gadget... They might have had “representative levels” of actual explosives on board in realistic packaging.


17 posted on 03/30/2016 8:53:03 PM PDT by ThunderSleeps (Stop obarma now! Stop the hussein - insane agenda!)
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Ping


18 posted on 03/30/2016 8:53:32 PM PDT by IChing (Nuke Mecca already)
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To: grey_whiskers

Ha you got that reference.


19 posted on 03/30/2016 8:54:06 PM PDT by CJ Wolf ( !)
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To: BereanBrain

My son has till June to graduate and so for the next couple months I was planning for him to be there. I pulled my younger daughter out of school to home school just recently, but for different reasons then feds leaving bombs on buses. But that story beats anything I did pull her out for.


20 posted on 03/30/2016 9:01:19 PM PDT by CJ Wolf ( !)
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