'Suicide Bomber-Type’ Vest Found In Mt. Washington (Pennsylvania)

WPXI ^ | April 2, 2009

[Stoat]

'Suicide Bomber-Type’ Vest Found In Mt. Washington

Updated: 5:14 pm EDT April 2, 2009

MOUNT WASHINGTON, Pa. -- Workers cleaning out a house in Mt. Washington called police when they found a device with what looked like pipe bombs with wires and nails attached.

"It looked exactly like somebody would wear in a suicide bomber-type of scene or suicide bomber- type of incident," said Sheldon Williams, of the Pittsburgh police bomb squad. The device was found outside 559 Southern Avenue late Thursday morning while workers from Pittsburgh Iron and Scrap Metal were picking up scrap metal. While loading materials into their truck, they noticed a device and called authorities.

The bomb squad arrived and, using the squad’s robot, police were able to get a closer look at the device. “It had a vest,” he said. “The pipe bombs were in a series, meaning they were all linked together.”

“There was a wire coming out of it with a plunger on the end of it,” Williams said. The bomb squad detonated one of the pipe bombs at the scene. The other three pipe bombs in the vest could not be opened and were taken to a private destination for further testing and detonation.

"It could totally be a hoax device,” said Williams. “But we would not make that determination upon arrival.” Part of the investigation will include locating the previous tenants that neighbors said kept to themselves.

“They were a younger crowd,” said neighbor Sharon Summerville. “They were into weird art work and stuff like that." Investigators said they could not determine if there was explosive residue inside the pipes. Samples were sent to the crime lab for further testing.

If even the vest is proved a hoax, police said they could still pursue charges against whoever created the look-a-like explosive device.

[Stoat]

There's a video report available at the weblink

[Rebelbase]

Sounds like Amish Jihad to me.

[Stoat]

“They were a younger crowd,” said neighbor Sharon Summerville. “They were into weird art work and stuff like that."

But did they get federal funding to produce suicide-bomber-vest art?

[Cindy]

ping

[Stoat]

Sounds like Amish Jihad to me.

LMAO

 

[Uncle Ike]

” The bomb squad detonated one of the pipe bombs at the scene. “

Hmmmmm.... Assuming that the reporter knows the difference between ‘detonated’ and ‘disrupted’, (admittedly not a particularly safe assumption) this doesn’t sound like a ‘hoax’ or ‘art project’ to me.....

Ping to Cindy - you might find this interesting....

[Cindy]

Yep, I already shared this article.

No, I didn’t get that “artsy” feel, either.

Hoping more details become available.

[xsmommy]

Jihadists want a room with a view?

[Diogenesis]

[Cindy]

http://pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/s_619026.html

“’Scary’ situation involving possible pipe bombs in Mt. Washington defused”

By Jill King Greenwood
TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Friday, April 3, 2009

SNIPPET: “Four suspected pipe bombs wrapped in a vest and linked with wires in Mt. Washington looked dangerous enough to “make the hair on our necks stand up,” a Pittsburgh bomb squad detective said Thursday.

“They were wrapped in a nylon vest resembling a suicide bomber and wired together with end caps and detonators,” Detective Sheldon Williams said of the bundle found in a curbside trash pile on Southern Avenue just before noon. “If they (were) real, they could have done some real damage.”

Police detonated two of the pipes and were testing what remained while detectives try to determine who left the items on the curb and why.

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“That trash has been sitting there since Friday night, and it’s a miracle a kid or someone else didn’t wander by and pick one of those bombs up,” said Lester Petrovich, 22, who lives a few doors away.”

[GovernmentShrinker]

“Blew up” is probably the correct description here, but a journalist-critter probably though detonated sounded more impressive. SOMETHING obviously detonated, but it may well have been the device police used to blow up the object, and not the object itself.

[Uncle Ike]

” Police detonated two of the pipes “

Thanks, Cindy...

More detail, but still begs the question how one ‘detonates’ a ‘fake’ pipe bomb — apparently that’s the word the police are using, and not just reporter-speak....

[GovernmentShrinker]

Totally off-topic, but I would have thought no one under age 60, or maybe even 70, was named “Lester”. It’s sort of like Mildred.

[Fresh Wind]

“They were a younger crowd,” said neighbor Sharon Summerville. “They were into weird art work and stuff like that."

Sounds like hippies into performance art.

Hippies like Ayers and Dohrn.

[Stoat]

Hippies like Ayers and Dohrn.
 

Indeed they could have been.  I wouldn't rule anything out at this early stage of the game and with so little information.

[Cindy]

“I wouldn’t rule anything out at this early stage of the game and with so little information.”

I agree.

[mc5cents]

“Blew up” is probably the correct description here

Yea, it blowed up good. It blowed up real good!

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[Oorang]

Thanks Cindy. Doesn’t sound like an art project to me.

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