Brickbat: Getting Bombed

When police in Edmonds, Washington, got a report of a piece of PVC pipe found near a boat launch on Lake Ballinger, they closed the launch and called in the bomb squad. And they say it's good that they did because the object was a pipe bomb. Well, that's what they say. Doug Waterman says it's a geocache container he put at the launch three years ago that has been found 88 times by geocaching hobbyists. Despite Waterman's claims, police insist it was a pipe bomb.

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[PS wanders the Wasteland]

SF'd the link.

[db]

Maybe some asshole replaced the cache with a pipe bomb?

[Agammamon]

What would be the point?

[Agammamon]

If that did happen, the cops should be so lucky that someone would use PVC to make a bomb.

[invisible furry hand]

to be an asshole, of course.

correct link here

http://myedmondsnews.com/2013/.....container/

[Agammamon]

Yeah but if you're going to make a pipebomb to replace a geocache container, you should actually make a pipebomb rather than pack some black powder in a plastic pipe. That's not going to do much of anything. Also, how do you fuse it. Pipebombs normally have burning fuses so you can throw them.

[PS wanders the Wasteland]

I tried to post the proper link but got the more than 50 chars error.

And if you are going to make a pipe bomb metal pipe works way better than pvc. Just be very careful when screwing on the cap.

[db]

What the fuck is the point anytime people try to cause needless harm to others?

[Radioactive]

or maybe someone replaced the pipebomb with a geocache...those clever bastards

[MappRapp]

Sounds like some pretty crazy smack to me dude.

http://www.Anon-Top.tk

[Atanarjuat]

Prague Stepchild, I need one of those superhot Czech women. How do I get one, and convince her to come back to the U.S. with me?

[Radioactive]

use a pipe bomb?

[PS wanders the Wasteland]

No idea, I met my wife at work. There's certainly less glamor to being American these days than 20 years ago.

[Archduke Trousersenthusiast]

BOOOSH!

[PS wanders the Wasteland]

Somewhat, yes, but mostly the novelty of foreigners in general has worn off, I think.

[Ted S.]

Learn to pronounce the ?. 🙂

There's tongue-twister I'd quote, but the fucking server squirrels don't like the number of Czech-specific characters that show up in said tongue-twister.

[Rich]

World War II pipe bomb

[Doctor Whom]

Without the police, who would protect us from those rogue geocaching hobbyists and their infernal contraptions of doom?

[invisible furry hand]

Infernal Contraptions of Doom? Great debut, but that last album sorta sucked

[Bardas Phocas]

Remember, though cops are vicious thugs in the pay of the state - they are also bureacratic drones in the pay of the state. So when the Bomb Squad boss is going in to justify his pay, his minions pay and the millions spent on fancy equipement -- he needs to show results.
So ALL pipes encountered by the squad over the last year are pipe bombs,
ALL isotopes encountered are Atomic bombs,
ALL citizens, beaten, tased or shot are gangsters, drug lords, terrorists and/or insurrectionist against the state.

All that equals and 10% increase in his squad's budget for FY 2014.

[Rasilio]

No you misunderstood them, they said the Pipe was "The Bomb" cause it was the coolest Geocache they ever found.

[entropy]

Well if we grade on a curve the cops in Washington get a B-, but only because the cops in Boston blew up a lite-brite.

[R C Dean]

If it really was a bomb, then tell us what kind of explosive and detonator it had.

Of course, they can't do that, because they already blew it up, which as we know is SOP for any suspicious item.