Collar Key In Deliveryman Death (Erie pizza delivery bank robbery bomber)

CBS/AP ^ | 9-2-2003 | no byline

[GrandmaPatriot]

Looks like handcuffs for the neck or I guess you could say neckcuffs.

[lelio]

that probably means me put it on

Er, that should be "probably means he [ the bomb wearer ] put it on" if the keyhole is on the bottom.

[Hatteras]

"Instead they hid behind patrol cars???????"

...and you would have....what? Held his hand through the ordeal?

[weegee]

I remember Andy Gump. He probably could have contorted his head and gotten out of the collar. I don't think he had a lower jaw.

[LibWhacker]

Here's a Columbian bomb collar someone mentioned on FR not too long ago:

Suspected FARC guerrillas detonated a collar bomb
they attached to dairy farmer Elvia Cortes, age 55,
on May 16, 2000, after she refused to pay a $7,500
extorsion.

[cake_crumb]

"It was lacking the 'Made in the Gaza Strip' label."

That ran through my mind too.

[steplock]

I lOVE the brave police/FBI training their guns on him so he would die alone while begging for help.

to Serve & protect? WHO?

[LibWhacker]

Colombian?

[weegee]

What does "to protect and serve" mean to you? The guy is pleading to get out of the thing.

Another article said that the bomb squad typically doesn't disarm live bombs, they generally detonate suspected bombs.

I haven't heard any details saying that the trigger would have blown if the collar had been cut. Blowtorch was out of the question, bolt cutters wouldn't work of the collar itself (although there was a shelf that the bomb rested on).

[randog]

Looks to me like it was fashioned from some factory parts. Why would they go to the trouble of painting it otherwise?

I'd start looking at Jesse James and his Monster Garage crews.......;^)

[weegee]

Such bombs have been successfully disarmed (and that one appears to be more complicated). The time to disarm may not have been available though:

Police defuse necklace bomb

Police have disarmed a collar bomb placed around the neck of a Venezuelan man by Colombian rebels trying to extort money from him.

It took several hours for Colombian and Venezuelan secret agents to disarm the bomb around the neck of Jesus Orlando Guerrero, 65, a ranch owner from the western frontier state of Tachira.

Three armed men forced the bomb around Guerrero's neck on Monday night, attacking him on his cattle ranch six miles from the Colombian border.

The attackers threatened to detonate the bomb in 72 hours unless they received the equivalent of £113,000.

The bomb was constructed out of a galvanised tube filled with C-4 explosives. It was painted gold with the words FARC-EP, an acronym standing for the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, Colombia's largest rebel army.

© Associated Press

Story filed: 18:34 Tuesday 1st July 2003

[Hatteras]

"What does "to protect and serve" mean to you? The guy is pleading to get out of the thing."

They protected all the rest of the citizenry around him. Best they could do under the circumstances. This ain't Miami Vice here. Sonny Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs ain't gonna slide in and make a last second choice between the red wire and the blue wire as the clock reaches zero. In case you haven't been paying attention, THIS is reality. Get used to it.

[weegee]

The bombsquad are supposed to be made of sterner stuff than the guy who writes speeding tickets.

They didn't even get there in time.

[Bigg Red]

I lOVE the brave police/FBI training their guns on him so he would die alone while begging for help.

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And how were they supposed to know whether or not he was telling the truth? I would have assumed that it was a setup to kill a lot of policemen. (And maybe it was.) What would you have done in their place?

[Bigg Red]

They protected all the rest of the citizenry around him.

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Thank you. Excellent answer. It's funny how these people who hate policeman expect the cops have super human powers. Bionic maybe?

[CJ Wolf]

The FBI has released this sketch of the bomber.