Posted on 10/01/2005 1:27:44 AM PDT by Straight Vermonter
A county courthouse was evacuated Thursday after officials said they found a possible explosive device -- one brought in by an attorney.
Officials said the item brought into the Carroll County Courthouse in Berryville was an undetonated firecracker that Cindy Baker intended to enter as evidence in a trial.
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If you were a kid on a farm you were used to working. Probably drove a tractor by the age of 10. When I said I wouldn't dream of touching the stuff, I meant in the store. I probably would've got a lickin' if I "touched the merchandise"!
"The world has gone completely mad."
And you just discovered this fact? ;)
I was born on a farm,my bro` and I were at least 10 when we started out driving tractors.Sis was able to get out of that,but she`s stronger me I told daddy.He just laughed.
I remember those Gov.booklets that described to farmers how to make diesel fuel-ammonia explosive to blow stumps & rocks.
Evacuating a court house for a firecracker.Unbelievable.
Yeah. We're all too stupid to know how to get things done now.
It's over folks. We're now the homeland. The United States of America RIP.
And to top that, the BATFE, apparently aware of the bomb squad's assessment that it was a firecracker, is responding to the "incident".
It's just got to be the result of birth-control hormones getting into the water.
Nope, just the residue from the Air Bag deployment.
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