Alert issued for potential teddy bear bombs

CNN ^ | February 13, 2002

[SamAdams76]

LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- The FBI has issued an alert to 350 law enforcement agencies in the southwest and Salt Lake City for potential Valentine teddy bear bombs after a suspicious transaction at a Wal-Mart last month.

Law enforcement sources said authorities also were on the alert at airports in case the suspected bear-bombs might be carried onto airplanes on Valentine's Day.

[riley1992]

$90 for chocolate? I'd take a few of their chocolate dipped rolled cookie finger thingy's and the rest in cash.

[concerned about politics]

the rest in cash.

I'll take real estate, shaped in a heart if necessary.

[al baby]

what about gerbal bombs ?

[texson66]

Oh, you can say that again!

[TomGuy]

It was 9 bears and 14 propane canisters, not 350...still potential danger, though.

[Enlightiator]

nine Valentine teddy bears, 20 inches tall, and 14 canisters of propane, 9 inches tall, small enough to fit inside the teddy bears. The man also bought 12 packets of BBs.

I'm doin' the math here, and things just aren't adding up with the insinuated "bomb teddy bear theory," theres a mismatch of propane cannisters and BB packets to bears. Donning my tin foil hat, my guess is that the BBs and propane cannisters are gonna make one big bomb unrelated to the teddy bears.

Taking my tin foil hat off, he's probably just going camping, needs the propane for heat and light, and plans on a little target practice on those poor teddys...

[demnomo]

ROTFL! That is too funny. Hopefully, there will be no exploding Valentine Day Bears in public places come tomorrow because secret agent OOTeddy was on the case. (You'd think that the Middle Eastern suspect could have purchased all of his questionable merchandise at separate Wal-Marts just to avoid suspicion. It reminds me of another ME moron who got caught after he came back for his deposit on the rented truck that blew up the WTC basement in '93...)

[TLBSHOW]

lol

[jrewingjr]

Richard Gere has already volunteered to head the bomb disposal unit.

[Rebelbase]

I'm with you on this one!

[TrappedInLiberalHell]

Well, someone has to say them:

"If teddy bears are outlawed, only outlaws will have teddy bears."
"We need to close the teddy bear show loophole."
"Someone set us up the bear."

[swheats]

We'll have to go undercover on this one.

[riley1992]

I'll take real estate, shaped in a heart if necessary.

$80 for real estate? Have big plans for those 10 rolls of sod, do you? LOL

[al baby]

I know there was a second bear on the grassy knoll

[rintense]

Great. Now I have to reject birthday presents? What about these kind of teddies???

I'd like to see any red-blooded American male turn away THAT teddy.

That's my Valentine's Day gift to all the FR men. Enjoy it fellas!

[al baby]

Do Bears blow up in the woods?

[Catspaw]

My God, that looks like Leland, Samatha's teddy. I'm knitting him a new sweater for his trip to Disneyworld--and an aloha shirt for his time in Florida so he can be a well-dressed tourist bear.

[DouglasKC]

Great. Next thing you know the Bear-American lobby is going to start making a stink about how all bears are now being profiled.

[El Gato]

It was 9 bears and 14 propane canisters, not 350...still potential danger, though.

Indeed, and what if these were just for the prototypes? Notice that he bought extra propane canisters, why would he do that if he already had the design down? Extra BBs too, although not necessarily, since one pack of BBs need not go with one bear, he could intend to put 1 1/3 packs into each bear bomb. If that's what he had in mind.