Posted on 11/23/2013 3:07:11 AM PST by Dubh_Ghlase
RALEIGH, N.C. – A North Carolina newspaper deliveryman picked up a teddy bear on a rural road, only to have authorities tell him later a bomb had been stuffed inside.
Anthony Cannon, who works for The Shelby Star, said Friday he spotted the booby-trapped toy before dawn Thursday along his route near Lattimore, a tiny town about 50 miles west of Charlotte. Later, he circled back to pick it up.
"I thought it was real unusual to be sitting in the middle of the road," Cannon, 42, said by telephone. "It was pitch-black out there. When I picked the bear up some sort of container fell out."
Not realizing he was holding an improvised explosive device, Cannon left the bear and put the cylindrical item in his car for the 20-minute drive back to Shelby. He drove to his cousin's home, where he examined what he had found more closely in the light.
He says it was a small, liquid-filed bottle covered with tape with some wires coming out of it. Suspecting what he was holding might be dangerous, Cannon set the device down on the porch and dialed 911...
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Glad no one was hurt. Quite dangerous. I have to keep up with this story.
At first I thought it wasn’t getting any airtime, but now I see it’s getting picked up by other news outlets. It doesn’t get more serious than this, especially around this time of year...
I would not put what I suspected was a bomb “on the porch,” or at least not on MY porch.
My first thought is that this guy clearly has never been in the military, where he would have received IED awareness training. A military person would have never picked up that container.
He is lucky. He barely escaped with his life.
Palestinians used to booby trap stuffed animals and leave them where Israeli children would find them and pick them up. I don’t think I can think of a lower, more degraded tactic than that. These animals need to be found and put down. Painfully.
From the article: “If a kid had walked down the road and seen that bear, I’m pretty sure they would have picked it up”
Yup. That was probably the idea.
Looks like this wasn’t the first IED in the area. Makes you wonder who is behind it. Cui bono?
This doesn’t make sense to me.
He picks up the bear and something fell out.
He picks up that something which just happened to look like a pipe bomb and leaves the bear behind.
That just doesn’t make sense to me.
How exactly does one file something with a liquid? Maybe the liquid was frozen. Or are they trying to say that the teddy bear was in a file when the man found it? And was the bottle filled with anything?
As the journalism profession schleps toward extinction it looks like the copy editors are leading the march.
/end_rant
So it goes.
We predicted bombing campaigns against the kids years ago. More to come, gentlemen.
http://junipersec.wordpress.com/2011/10/14/a-viral-encounter/
There are some kind of islamist digs in northern York County SC. It’s called “Islamville” or some such nonsense. I’d sure be eyeing this bunch. They’re evidently armed to the teeth.
They cover every square inch of this country and are just waiting for BHO to give the signal.
Yes, and the local churches have embraced them. They sponsor social events with them, to show how enlightened they are.
NY state has one as well.
Fortunately, Upstate NY is fairly well armed due to the number of hunters who live here.
I did 3 years and never received such training......
“Palestinians used to booby trap stuffed animals and leave them where Israeli children would find them and pick them up”
I’ve heard rumor the Soviets did the same thing to the Afghans during their Vietnam.
How sad....some poor Muslim Brotherhood operative, accidently dropped one of the toys he bought for his children, for lama lama ding dong...
but don’t worry Ach-med. Our POSOTUS will help buy you a new one.
Was your 3 years recent? I’ve received IED awareness training a few times in the last 10 years.
nope
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