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Police say hijacked big-rig was carrying vacuums, not fertilizer
AP via SFGate ^
| 5/21/7
Posted on 05/21/2007 12:50:02 PM PDT by SmithL
Los Angeles (AP) -- A hijacked big rig that police believed was carrying tons of potentially dangerous fertilizer was actually holding a less threatening cargo — vacuum cleaners, authorities said Monday.
The truck was being driven from Texas to Northern California when it disappeared from an industrial area. The Los Angeles Police Department publicized the theft as a precaution because the truck at that time was believed to be hauling 10,000 pounds of fertilizer.
Certain types of fertilizer can be used to make explosives.
After further investigation, police said the missing goods were commercial-style vacuum cleaners, not fertilizer.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; US: California
KEYWORDS: fertilizer; hijack; vacuum
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posted on
05/21/2007 12:50:07 PM PDT
by
SmithL
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posted on
05/21/2007 12:50:38 PM PDT
by
SmithL
(si vis pacem, para bellum)
To: SmithL
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posted on
05/21/2007 12:51:40 PM PDT
by
Spruce
To: SmithL
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posted on
05/21/2007 12:51:47 PM PDT
by
P-40
(Al Qaeda was working in Iraq. They were just undocumented.)
To: SmithL
So THAT’S where the giant sucking sound is coming from.
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posted on
05/21/2007 12:52:02 PM PDT
by
3AngelaD
(They've screwed up their own countries so bad they had to leave, now they're here screwing up ours.)
To: SmithL
Maybe instead of blowing up a building the hijackers plan on sucking it up?
To: MozarkDawg
A hijacked big rig that police believed was carrying tons of potentially dangerous fertilizer was actually holding a less threatening cargo — vacuum cleaners . . .Excuse me, those things are scary.
(Public private joke. Everyone else, carry on).
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posted on
05/21/2007 12:54:08 PM PDT
by
dighton
To: Spruce
Nothing sucks, like an Electro-Lux!
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posted on
05/21/2007 12:56:07 PM PDT
by
massgopguy
(I owe everything to George Bailey)
To: SmithL
vacuum cleaners, of course.
sounds like fertilizer to me , Homeland Security grade. ;-)
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posted on
05/21/2007 12:56:34 PM PDT
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi ... For want of a few good men, a once great nation was lost.)
To: SmithL
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posted on
05/21/2007 12:58:18 PM PDT
by
magslinger
(Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors. And miss. R.A.Heinlein)
To: Risky-Riskerdo
OK, just Spaceballs flipping the switch from “blow” to “suck”...
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posted on
05/21/2007 12:59:46 PM PDT
by
Hegemony Cricket
(Tradition is merely a group effort to prevent the unexpected)
To: Spruce
They were afraid it would blow. But it only sucked.
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posted on
05/21/2007 1:01:39 PM PDT
by
dblshot
To: SmithL
Housekeeping criminal syndicate grows bolder.
Stolen vacuums and illegal workers.
What’s next, endangered bird feather dusters for the Capos?
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posted on
05/21/2007 1:02:16 PM PDT
by
Sax
To: SmithL
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posted on
05/21/2007 1:03:08 PM PDT
by
VRWCmember
(Go Rudy Go! (And take McCain with you!))
To: NormsRevenge
Yeah, that Chertoff has been piling it high and deep for a long time.
To: SmithL
How do you misread a manifest that badly? It may not have been fertilizer, but something still smells.
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posted on
05/21/2007 1:05:41 PM PDT
by
Ingtar
(...right wing conservatives are growing tired of crawling on bloody stumps looking for scraps - JRob)
To: SmithL
I abhor this development.
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posted on
05/21/2007 1:06:10 PM PDT
by
Larry Lucido
(Duncan Hunter 2008 (or Fred Thompson if he ever makes up his mind))
To: SmithL
I dunno. 10,000 pounds of vacuum can mess up your whole day. :)
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posted on
05/21/2007 1:07:20 PM PDT
by
lepton
("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
To: Larry Lucido
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posted on
05/21/2007 1:07:21 PM PDT
by
Famishus
(North of the equator, the Death Spiral is clockwise.)
To: SmithL
Maybe it’s a delivery for the influx of illegals we can expect once the new amnesty - i mean - “immigration reform” bill passes...
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posted on
05/21/2007 1:07:36 PM PDT
by
Andonius_99
(There are two sides to every issue. One is right, the other is wrong; but the middle is always evil.)
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