Oopsie.
Suspicious box turns out to be weather station
(raonoke.com) A suspicious looking box found near Lewis-Gale Medical Center Thursday afternoon was, in fact, a remote weather station that had been affixed the tree by an employee and not an explosive device.
The box, which was constructed with putty and wires, was probed by the Virginia State Police Bomb Squad.
The bomb squad blew up the device before realizing it was a weather station. An employee had placed a putty-like substance around the box to make it weather proof.
The investigation is concluded and no criminal charges will be filed.
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Well, since weather is controlled by Bush and Rove, anyway, it’s probably a good thing it was destroyed.
/applying tinfoil hat
I am reminded of a Simpson’s skit
Soooo maybe the answer to all this Global Warming crappola is to destroy all the weather stations and to paraphrase a line from Henry VI (Part 2) by William Shakespeare
Why wasn’t the person who put the box around the tree smart enought to put up a sign about who it was from and who to contact? Maybe then his experiment would still be around or maybe he should have gotten permission. Now, this is different from those who tried to sneak fake devices onto the airplanes to test the system. They should be prosecuted because their is no reason for that.
This is what happens when the government has its citizens living in fear. TERRA! TERRA! TERRA!
Better than a government that says to terrorists: “Thank you sir, may I have another?”
Look, it had putty around it. It wasn’t there before. No one knew what it was…… I am so glad people are paying attention. I would rather the weather box get blown to bits than people. I say HURRAH for our side, for paying attention.
The text in the box that said “Front Towards Enemy” made them a bit nervous….
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#3 Robert - It’s that missing common sense thing again. A simple sign/sticker stating what it is and who to contact would have prevented all of this. One phone call could have eliminated any question as to its origin and purpose. Unless,of course, the conpsriracy theorists out there would have you believe that this could have been a real bomb/explosive device and made the fake stickers and had an answering service set up to throw the fuzz off the trail as to it’s true intent or perhaps would direct the caller to go stand by the device so that they could blow it up remotely. Holey exploding weather stations Batman, Now I’m starting to be paranoid!
Think of this as a practice run! Bonus was that they got to blow it up and nobody got hurt. Suuuweeet!
Maybe he shouldn’t use putty and wires next time. That’ll learn him.
#8 Malcolm (with 2 L’s):
THE FUZZ? C’mon, nobody uses that word anymore. I get called on Jiggy all the time. They actually have a commercial about me using that word. 3 people said they thought of me, when they saw it.
I’m going to deflect that Jiggy word offa me, and now tell everyone that you call the cops, “The Fuzz”. Bwaaaaahahahahaha!
The story was great until you used THAT word!
Someone explain to me why this should make me feel safer…that the BOMB SQUAD can’t even tell the difference between a weather station and a bomb??????