[r9etb]

Off-hand, I'm guessing it's a militia type.

[newsperson999]

More: all schools closed: school kids being picked up by PARENTS only parents.

[caa26]

Possible copycat of the 19 or 20 yr old terrorist idiot who planted pipe bombs in midwest earlier this year?

[Mo1]

OK .. you seem to be the first thread

I saw Fox just reported this

[NittanyLion]

Wonder how long they've been there? Barnesville appears to be only a few miles from I-75, which was the route taken by the three Florida terror suspects.

[mhking]

From 11Alive.com (WXIA/Atlanta):

Downtown Barnesville Evacuated
Provided By: The Associated Press
Last Modified: 9/20/2002 12:12:10 PM

Authorities evacuated the downtown square in Barnesville Friday and kept students under guard at nearby schools after finding several suspicious packages shaped like pipes.

John Bankhead, spokesman for the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, said the suspicious packages were reported Friday morning and that GBI and state homeland security officers are on the scene.

Five bomb technicians have been sent from the GBI offices in Greenville and Atlanta. It remains too early to determine the exact nature of the situation, Bankhead said.

Barnesville police reported finding seven or eight suspicious items outside of several downtown business. GBI agents have since detonated the items and determined them to be a hoax.

Authorities said six more locations in downtown Barnesville still needed to be checked.

All three schools in Bankhead are currently on lockdown, according to a spokesman for Lamar County Schools. Parents are being allowed to go to the schools to pick up their children.

The Barnesville sheriff is scheduled to debrief the public on the situation at a noon news conference.

The city is located in Lamar County 50 miles south of Atlanta.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

[John Lenin]

Does anyone see the link between Eunie stone and now this with what happened to McKinney ?

[ItisaReligionofPeace]

Where does Eunice Stone live?

[BlueNgold]

For those who might be saying "Where?"

Barnesville is located about halfway between Macon and Atlanta and sits about 10 miles from the nearest interstate (75).

[mhking]

[xyggyx]

http://www.11alive.com/news/news_article.asp?storyid=21805

I'm guessing it's highschool kids and not terrorists. Maybe terrorist highschool kids.

[taxcontrol]

Just for info, pipe bombs are very common to those NOT trained in explosives or the manufacture of booby traps.

Why? The VAST majority of times, pipe bombs split or blow off the end caps and thus are far less effective than the bomb maker thinks they will be. This is especially true if the bomb maker uses a low speed explosive like gun powder. It also has to do with the rather inconsistant manufacture of the pipe metal itself.

Far more dangerous would be someone who used a 55 gallon drum and a high speed explosive. The drum most likely would be distroyed in the explosion and the explosion would have a larger overall distructive nature.

[Gritty]

4-7 pipe bombs are probably an amateur effort, not one from Al-Qaeda.

When they decide to set some explosives off, they will cause some serious damage in a planned spot.

[Prodigal Son]

I have to chuckle over this one. This'll be the most exciting thing that's happened in Barnesville for a long long time. They'll still be talking about this when I eventually come back to the States and move back to Spalding Co. A small group of us used to ride down to Barnesville after Sunday evening church service and have a meal in the Pizza Hut. The most excitement they have in Barnesville is the Barnesville Buggy Days. Sleepy little town...

I imagine they'll find the idiot that did this pretty quickly- they don't have so many suspects to choose from. There's only about 15,000 people in the whole county. The perp is going to be like a little kid wondering how his parents know he was the one that broke the vase,

'How, y'all know it was me?'
'Cause you only the only nut job we got in town Billy Ray... Now turn around and put your hands on the car.'