Posted on 10/19/2005 10:33:41 PM PDT by LibertyRocks
STOCKTON -- Students and staff were forced to evacuate San Joaquin Delta College around 6 p.m. Monday after police found a false pipe bomb in a courtyard on campus.
Police cordoned off the area and class was canceled for the rest of the evening, said B.R. Brown, the college's spokesman.
Stockton Police Department explosives team, assuming it to be real, attempted to destroy the suspected pipe bomb by shooting water at it, said Officer Pete Smith, spokesman for the Stockton Police Department.
The suspicious device, which was a PVC pipe with tape on both ends, was found next to a garbage can near the bookstore on the campus, which is at 5151 Pacific Avenue.
In September 2001, students were evacuated when a man called in a bomb threat, just a week after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. The call also turned out to be a hoax.
Classes resumed on Tuesday. Delta had 17,576 students enrolled in the past spring semester.
I wish someone would catch the perpetrator of these "pranks" and beat the shizzle out of them.
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I think we need to make the Anarchist's Cookbook widely available for assorted nut jobs everywhere. The recipes are the most unstable way possible to build a bomb. As long as neighbors aren't harmed in the process, it's an easy way to eliminate extremists of all breeds.
They're definitely taking these threats and "hoaxes" seriously... Most of the threats that have come across through news media sources in the last few days are at the high school level (kind of to be expected due to age of students though I don't recall any such threats when I was in school).
I take incidents like this at the college level of more importance as the assumed age of those likely involved kind of rules out "horseplay" unless the person is just plain "idiotic" IMHO.
Yeah, it's too bad most of the ones who really wish us harm though are not "amatuers", but rather intelligent and mostly well-educated (or in the process of becoming so...).
I assume you're referring to Kennedy, Kerry and company. Ha, ha.
They could probably fit that description as well! (o:
Is it just me or does treating a PVC pipe as a serious threat sound just a little like over-reaction to anybody else?
The burst strength of pvc is such that you woule never build up a gas pressure sufficient to accelerate much of anything, certainly not the pipe itself.
A great line from a corny movie.
"I don't worry about the man who wants a hundred nuclear weapons. The man who wants just one terrifies me."
I'm not an expert, but I think it would depend on what you were using as explosive material inside the pipe itself. From what I've learned over the last few weeks in research associated with OU, even small amounts of some explosive material (probably not the stuff typically found in the case of a pipe bomb) can be very dangerous...
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