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Crews tow man in boat with suspicious device to shore (Near Surry Nuclear Plant)
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Posted on 05/20/2011 10:20:03 AM PDT by Stonewall1

SURRY, VA (WTVR) - Virginia Marine Police say they are towing the boat of a man with a suspicious device attached to himself to shore.

Officials say the man is in a nine foot inflatable boat that was in the middle of the James River, just south of the Ghost Fleet between Surry Nuclear Power Plant and Ft. Eustis. The man had a chain wrapped around his neck attached to a 2 foot by 1 foot black box. Virginia Marine Police's John Bull says the man, who was first spotted by a commercial crabber around 7 a.m., made no demands, appeared incoherent and disoriented, but at other times was also cooperative.

According to the Daily Press, Bull said the man provided no information other than to ask people to stay away from him.

"We don't know who he is, and we don't know how he got here," Bull said. "We don't know why he has a chain around his neck. We don't know why the chain is attached to a black box, and we don't know what's in the black box either. We are approaching this with an abundance of caution so that a very strange situation doesn't become more serious than it already is."


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To: oneolcop

2 feet by 1 foot box?

Dazed and confused?

Radiation poisoned?


21 posted on 05/20/2011 11:17:44 AM PDT by Hardraade (I want gigaton warheads now!!)
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To: Stonewall1

“SURRY, VA (WTVR) - Virginia State Police say a 32-year-old Williamsburg man is in custody after he caused a bit of a commotion near the Surry nuclear plant Friday.

Crews towed the man, who was in a nine foot inflatable boat with with a chain wrapped around his neck attached to a 2 foot by 1 foot black box, to shore around 12:35.

Police say the man, who was drunk, is now under medical observation.

Virginia State Police bomb techs x-rayed the box. It turned out to be full of wet sand”


22 posted on 05/20/2011 11:27:37 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts ma'am, just the facts)
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To: Stonewall1

He might have geen drugged by Amish tangos —they’re hidden nearby and filming how close this victim gets before he is stopped.

This is a RECONNAISSANCE, a kind of probe.

The Amish are inspired by the events in Japan, and they want to replicate that in the USA.


23 posted on 05/20/2011 11:30:18 AM PDT by gaijin
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To: faucetman; iceskater
Police say the man, who was drunk, is now under medical observation.

Yeah, I guess he would be.

As iceskater said earlier: BIZARRE

24 posted on 05/20/2011 11:44:04 AM PDT by Gabz (Democrats for Voldemort.)
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To: Merrittk
"Dazed and confused"



Hell of a song......
25 posted on 05/20/2011 11:44:42 AM PDT by Emperor Palpatine (One of these days, Alice....one of these days.....POW!! Right in the kisser!!!!)
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To: statered
They never figured out who was behind that one.

I believe you are referring to the pizza guy who had his head blown off while everyone looked on. Do some research, you'll see they caught the perps last year.

26 posted on 05/20/2011 11:54:03 AM PDT by TexasRedeye (Eschew obfuscation)
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To: Stonewall1

[ The man had a chain wrapped around his neck attached to a 2 foot by 1 foot black box. ]

Newt Gingrich?..


27 posted on 05/20/2011 11:55:09 AM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole...)
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To: DannyTN

Lost CIA trainee on maneuvers from Camp Peary, on the other side of Williamsburg. Maybe they dumped him in the Skiffe’s Creek, and tasked him with navigating back. Would explain the liferaft. But the Box with chain? Who knows.

Will know if we hear nothing more about the indiv., esp. if he is a foreign agent in for training by us/for us.

But all speculation, of course.


28 posted on 05/20/2011 12:02:24 PM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: Merrittk

Or maybe he didn’t get his obamacare waiver, since he isn’t AARP or a chef in SF, at 32 y.0.


29 posted on 05/20/2011 12:06:46 PM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: Stonewall1; All

Isn’t this one of the “plots” found in Bin Laden’s house ..?? I thought I heard or read that blowing up nuclear facilities was on their list of fun things to do.


30 posted on 05/20/2011 12:18:38 PM PDT by CyberAnt ("America is the greatest nation on the face of the earth".)
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To: John S Mosby

“But the Box with chain?”

Obama’s gonads?


31 posted on 05/20/2011 12:21:56 PM PDT by Lee'sGhost (Johnny Rico picked the wrong girl!)
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To: Stonewall1

“I’m tied down with battleship chain, 50 foot long and a 2 ton anchor.”


32 posted on 05/20/2011 12:22:53 PM PDT by Lee'sGhost (Johnny Rico picked the wrong girl!)
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To: Stonewall1

Have they explained why his backside was covered in honey and chicken feathers?


33 posted on 05/20/2011 12:27:37 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy
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To: VA_Gentleman

——At least find out if rubber duck boy can swim and if his black box can float? Test his cabin cruiser with a pellet gun?


34 posted on 05/20/2011 12:36:59 PM PDT by cherokee1 (skip the names---just kick the buttz)
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To: Rebelbase

I notice that he’s not very far up the James river from the Norfolk Naval Shipyard/ Newport News complex. A fifteen pound charge could make a real mess out of a drydock caison and take a supercarrier out of action for a long time. Don’t make me look it up but I think it’s the USS Eisenhour that’s being refueled at the moment. At the very least he has to be suspected of making a “test run.”


35 posted on 05/20/2011 12:49:25 PM PDT by cherokee1 (skip the names---just kick the buttz)
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To: TexasRedeye; statered

From WIKI:

Brian Douglas Wells (November 15, 1956 – August 28, 2003) was an American pizza delivery man who was killed by a time bomb fastened to his neck, purportedly under coercion from the maker of the bomb. After he was apprehended by the police for robbing a bank, the bomb exploded. The bizarre affair was subject to much attention in the mass media.

In a July 2007 indictment, federal prosecutors alleged that Wells had been involved in the planning of the botched crime. Two of his conspirators, Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong and Kenneth Barnes, were indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of bank robbery, conspiracy, and weapons charges.[1] Kenneth Barnes subsequently pleaded guilty in September 2008 and largely confirmed that Wells was indeed involved in planning the robbery but also revealed Wells was under the impression an actual bomb would not be used. When he discovered the bomb was real, Barnes said a pistol was fired, and witnesses confirmed hearing a gunshot, in order to force Wells’ compliance.[2] On December 4, 2008, U.S. District Judge Sean J. McLaughlin sentenced Barnes to 45 years in federal prison for his role in the robbery/murder.[3] On November 1, 2010, Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong was found guilty of participating in the crime, and was sentenced to life plus 30 years on February 28, 2011.[4]


36 posted on 05/20/2011 12:57:32 PM PDT by Red Badger (Jesus said there is no marriage in Heaven. That's why they call it Heaven............)
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To: Stonewall1

The story at the link has been updated. It was a drunk with a box full of wet sand.


37 posted on 05/20/2011 1:26:50 PM PDT by Scutter
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To: DannyTN

Well done. I think No. 5 is the prime suspect


38 posted on 05/20/2011 1:47:27 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat ("Celebrate 'Civility'")
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To: Stonewall1

39 posted on 05/20/2011 3:43:30 PM PDT by Califreak (You can't go swimming in a baseball pool)
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To: Stonewall1

Psychotic episode.


40 posted on 05/20/2011 3:52:31 PM PDT by Rudder (The Main Stream Media is Our Enemy---get used to it.)
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