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Decapitated body found near Evanston school
Chicago Tribune ^ | 14 sept 2010

Posted on 09/14/2010 7:23:00 AM PDT by rellimpank

Edited on 09/14/2010 7:37:57 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

Evanston police were called out to a field near a middle school after a man walking his dog this morning discovered a decapitated body there.

Police have pushed the media back from the area after discovering what appears to be an explosive device near the body, WGN-Ch. 9 reported about 8:40 a.m. Some residents were being evacuated from their homes. The Cook County sheriff's bomb squad was on the scene.


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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: beheading; chicago; decapbomb; evanston; illinois; pipebomb; workaccident
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To: Cboldt
Same chemistry involved in that kid who blew up outside an Oklahoma football game, IIRC.

Yep.

41 posted on 09/14/2010 8:02:35 AM PDT by Lurker (The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
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To: rellimpank

My take on this is that a kid was going to set off a bomb near his school. Later he could show everyone the hole or just enjoy everyone talking about it.
He was bent over his bomb getting everything ready when it went off prematurely. That explains the missing head.
Young kids can create bombs, I did years ago. My best friend and I made all kinds of explosives, even pipe bombs back in the ‘70s. We also make contact explosives. Somehow we survived all this and became engineers.


42 posted on 09/14/2010 8:02:42 AM PDT by RadiationRomeo (Step into my mind and glimpse the madness that is me)
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To: TexasBeth

Suicide bombers’ heads almost always decapitate when the explosives are strapped around the chest —


43 posted on 09/14/2010 8:03:36 AM PDT by smokingfrog (freerepublic.com - Thanks JimRob! The flags are back! - 8/17/2010.)
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To: rellimpank

I’m going out on a limb and guessing it was some guy who decided to commit suicide by blowing his head off with a pipe bomb.


44 posted on 09/14/2010 8:05:11 AM PDT by r9etb
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To: hoosiermama; penelopesire
"Drug or thug?"

Evanston is a suburban municipality directly north of Chicago. It sits on Lake Michigan. I remember as a kid going to Evanston's beach and marvelling at all the north shore mansions there. It was known as a millionaires' community.

Today, it's economically diverse, with most of the old millionaire families moved on. Evanston is about 63% white, 23% black and 6% or 7% Hispanic. It has lots of public housing and about 6% of families are below the poverty level.

For decades, Evanston has been the home of the "north shore limousine liberals." Because of its left-leaning politics, it's sometimes known as the "Peoples' Republic of Evanston". In 2004 it went 82% Kerry and 17% Bush. In 2008 it went 87% for Obama.

Drug or thug? Well, now it looks like the guy blew HIMSELF up. It really didn't have the earmarks of the thuggish street slaughter going on in Mayor Daley's precincts.

Evanston is the home of Northwestern University. It has a large campus where nuts with bombs strapped to themselves may have loony ideas. This is about the only stab-in-the-dark idea that comes to my mind at the moment with absolutely zero details to base anything concrete on.

Leni

45 posted on 09/14/2010 8:05:31 AM PDT by MinuteGal (BO'R:"Obama is not a Marxist"(10/20/09)..."Communism is no threat to us any more" (9/8/09))
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To: Cboldt
5:15 a.m. is pretty early time to be walking the dog, I wonder if the adult was looking for the site of the explosion.

I'm generally out running with the dog by then....

46 posted on 09/14/2010 8:06:13 AM PDT by r9etb
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To: Never on my watch
How the heck do you do that?

When the chef in the restaurant wonders where his waiter is, what is Edgar Bug's response?

"I gave him a break!" After Edgar Bug grabs the two plates of perogis and moves off-screen, you see the waiter in question folded in half and stuffed onto a shelf!

47 posted on 09/14/2010 8:07:01 AM PDT by null and void (We are now in day 598 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
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To: Cboldt

Maybe but if he works he probably has to walk his dog early. And yuck, not what I’d want to find early in the morning. Or any time.


48 posted on 09/14/2010 8:09:27 AM PDT by brytlea (Jesus loves me, this I know.)
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To: Uncle Ike

Darn, I wish I could remember the name of the woman who had that list.


49 posted on 09/14/2010 8:10:07 AM PDT by brytlea (Jesus loves me, this I know.)
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To: OB1kNOb
What’s that up the road, a head?

What's this thing called, Love?

50 posted on 09/14/2010 8:11:10 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (Liberalism can be summed up thusly: someone craps their pants and we all have to wear diapers)
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To: MinuteGal

Thanks for all the info. Perhaps this is another Gore/Globull Warming inspired eco-nut.


51 posted on 09/14/2010 8:12:46 AM PDT by penelopesire (NEVER FORGET!! 'You are either with us or you are with the terrorists')
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To: rellimpank

With the possibility of a second device I think of two scenarios

1. Terrorist planting bombs were kids will find them, but he makes a mistake and blows himself up.

2. Somebody else planted the devices and this guy found one and it blew up when he opened it.

Not good either way.


52 posted on 09/14/2010 8:13:45 AM PDT by Ratman83
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To: MinuteGal

Thanks for the info. We’re about 40 minutes away from this area. And we are out walking our dogs at 5:45 every morning on our way to Mass. Not a discovery I would ever want to make. Glad it wasn’t the middle school kids that saw this ...


53 posted on 09/14/2010 8:16:36 AM PDT by mlizzy (Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee ...)
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To: Never on my watch
Where there any islamic bombing targets in walking distance?

I thought pretty much every square inch of the planetary surface was a viable islamic bombing target.

These days it's mostly the non islamic parts that get bombed, but should they -God forbid!- succeed in taking over the world and killing or converting its entire population to islam, they will fall upon each other for 'not being islamic enough'.

Murder in the name of their pig-god is all they really know, the only thing they are good at, and the only thing for which they have any real enthusiasm.

54 posted on 09/14/2010 8:17:35 AM PDT by null and void (We are now in day 598 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
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To: rarestia

” These idiots in Illinois wouldn’t know the difference between gunpowder and baking powder.”

yes they would, after sniffing up their nose for an hour they would figure it out


55 posted on 09/14/2010 8:22:44 AM PDT by SF_Redux
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To: hoosiermama
Drug or thug?

...or (prayer) rug?

56 posted on 09/14/2010 8:23:09 AM PDT by Fundamentally Fair (If exercising the right to free speech invites violence, then girls in short skirts invite rape.)
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To: SF_Redux

gunpowder up the nose? Dear God that would be painful!


57 posted on 09/14/2010 8:24:34 AM PDT by rarestia (It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
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To: RadiationRomeo

The amazing part is that ALL of one’s direct ancestors managed to survive to at least the age of procreation. What are the odds of that?


58 posted on 09/14/2010 8:27:25 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: RadiationRomeo
My best friend and I made all kinds of explosives, even pipe bombs back in the ‘70s.

My boyfriend's best friend in high school used to make bombs back in the 70's, we'd blow stuff up in a field. He also had a bad habit of pocketing everyone's lighters, so I teased him about being a "pyro-cleptic" ; )

59 posted on 09/14/2010 8:31:05 AM PDT by ravingnutter
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To: penelopesire
Evanston is a suburb that sits north of Chicago city right on the city line. The locale of the body is about eight blocks north of the line with Chicago. A prosperous, mostly quiet town of about 70,00,but with more diversity,more poverty and more crime than other tony North Shore suburbs. Home to Northwestern University. The Chicago EL train serves Evanston, a blessing because it brings easy, rapid access to downtown Chicago, a sometime curse as it can also carry thugs from Chicago looking for easy burglary or mugging targets.
60 posted on 09/14/2010 8:33:23 AM PDT by Godwin1
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