transient's are smarter than you think...

Damn hippies!

wonder if he could make one to power my laptop for 7 or 8 hours???

Be afraid, because paranoia is patriotic.

Unlike a lot of these stories, the item in question actually does appear to be quite bombolicious. Friggin' transients and their superior energy storing technology from the future homeless dimension always up to no good.

Really surpised they didn't blow it up just to be safe.

On a side note, if someone blew up a Panera bread without injuring anyone I would not exactly be outraged. I mean c'mon free ciabatta raining from the sky.

I dunno, this one actually does look like a pipe bomb.

So anybody who read the article:

If you saw this laying next to a building, what would you think? If you don't think that might be a bomb, perhaps instead of everyone else being paranoid, you are naive? It sounds like they took appropriate steps, its not like the police can decide something that looks like that is harmless.

FTA
Note: the cardboard piece was added by investigators.


Did it not look quite "homemade" enough for them?

gordopolis: FTA
Note: the cardboard piece was added by investigators.


Did it not look quite "homemade" enough for them?

"And here's one I made earlier!"

Yeah, that does look pretty bomb-like.

gordopolis: FTA
Note: the cardboard piece was added by investigators.


Did it not look quite "homemade" enough for them?

It looks like half of a toilet paper roll. WTF? Careful, it may have an electrostatic trigger! Oh, it's just a farking battery pack.

Boston PD has shut the city down just to be safe.

gordopolis: FTA
Note: the cardboard piece was added by investigators.


Did it not look quite "homemade" enough for them?

that's not a hair question.

Are we supposed to be complaining that the police thought that a pipe with wires might be a pipe bomb? Because I'm pretty sure basic logic in the police force is something we should be celebrating rather than deriding.

Allthough it has been pointed out before, if that thing actually worked, Florida is apparently attracting some pretty savvy transients these days.

/filled with lemon juice and a copper rod?

wanted for questioning

quadcam: I dunno, this one actually does look like a pipe bomb.

Exactly. I'm calling 'Misuse of the Florida Tag'.

My one year of physics and semester of electrical circuits fails me. Someone explain how this device could have been providing power. It's full of D-cell batteries?

Someone on the Destin Police Squad is going to get fired - that looks nothing at all like a box of sprinkler parts.

DUDE! Pantera has their own bread?
"The only bread that will KICK YOUR A$$!"
made with the hair from Dimebag's beard and sweat from Phil's dirty balls,
whiskey wheat or pure . . .

edmo: My one year of physics and semester of electrical circuits fails me. Someone explain how this device could have been providing power. It's full of D-cell batteries?

As a guitar player I demand an explanation! (at first I got excited thinking it was a homemade amplifier)

LostSaidDocument: edmo: My one year of physics and semester of electrical circuits fails me. Someone explain how this device could have been providing power. It's full of D-cell batteries?

As a guitar player I demand an explanation! (at first I got excited thinking it was a homemade amplifier)

I'm thinking it's either loaded up with D-cells, or it's akin to an induction flashlights, where you coil some wire around a magnet and shake the unit to charge a capacitor. If the guy could get a hold of the parts, that would be much cheaper in the long run than batteries.

ewillyp: DUDE! Pantera has their own bread?

Yes. Their bread's all about the Vulgar Display of Flour.

Panera has the best coffee I've ever tasted.

That is all.

Interesting that they called up a bomb squad from the next county over, which is 40 miles away, rather than use the bomb squad from Eglin AFB, which is only 10 miles away.

Panera has the best scones I have ever tasted.
Try the cinnamon chip.

justinmc: LostSaidDocument: edmo: My one year of physics and semester of electrical circuits fails me. Someone explain how this device could have been providing power. It's full of D-cell batteries?

As a guitar player I demand an explanation! (at first I got excited thinking it was a homemade amplifier)

I'm thinking it's either loaded up with D-cells, or it's akin to an induction flashlights, where you coil some wire around a magnet and shake the unit to charge a capacitor. If the guy could get a hold of the parts, that would be much cheaper in the long run than batteries.

With that explanation, it makes a lot more sense to me now. This, combined with the capacitor system from one of those shakey flashlights would easily power a Ruby amp setup. (new window)

Panera bread - mmmmm.

Unlike many of these cases, this actually looks (to the untrained eye, like mine) like it could be a bomb. Good call by the cops for once.

Dear Sheeple,

We regret to inform you that the terrorists have won. You can go about your business, and we'll be paranoid and overprotective on your behalf so that the next 9/11 isn't as bad as the first. Never mind the stronger cockpit doors, air marshals and passengers who wouldn't hesitate at tackling a would-be terrorist befire he could ever reach the cockpit, another 9/11 is an inevitability. Just remember to properly fill your Kippie bags and take off your shoes at the airport, smile when you are detained and strip-searched, and, above all, don't leave anything with wires or batteries lying around where our crack-shot police might mistake them for sinister devices. Because, knowing our police, that's very easy for them to do.

Oh, and we'll get bin Laden, SOMEDAY, then everything will be happy and peaceful. Until then, meekly submit to our officials and regard their paranoia as something normal.

Sincerely,

The Government
"Our job is to protect YOU, the American people... from yourselves"

brukmann: It looks like half of a toilet paper roll. WTF? Careful, it may have an electrostatic trigger! Oh, it's just a farking battery pack.

"Holy crap there is a sequence of marks at regular intervals next to the pipe! Do you think it's a detonation code?"

It's a size reference photo. Which is kind of why there is a tape measure next to it... unless you think the homeless dude left that too?
A common cylindrical object accurate to about 10mm anywhere across the US acts as a visual point of reference to the width of the pipe.

OMG a device that looks like a bomb but isn't. It fooled some Floridians. God they're so stupid.

Seriously, you submitters that post random stories from Florida and then use the Florida tag are missing the point.

Looks like a lite brite, to me.

I guess they figured nobody would like the "saint louis bread company" name.

Now I want some damn blueberry bagels.

I was all ready to make fun of them, but having seen a few improvised explosives in my day, that does look like it could be a bomb.

Looks like a tube for hold about 6 D cell batteries to me.

Approves.

/hot like plasma

danceswithcrows: ewillyp: DUDE! Pantera has their own bread?

Yes. Their bread's all about the Vulgar Display of Flour.

OMG. Wow. +10 And I never give out humor credits

Die yuppie scum.

Jim_Callahan: Are we supposed to be complaining that the police thought that a pipe with wires might be a pipe bomb? Because I'm pretty sure basic logic in the police force is something we should be celebrating rather than deriding.

Yeah, I could see looking at that thing and going "Whoa, pipe bomb." Looking it has no obvious purpose (like it doesn't look like a part from a mechanical device), no reason to have wires out of it and it looks pretty much like something some weirdo or homeless guy would cobble together.

Shiat. I would have called and reported it as a device also. Looks like something that would be considered that. Dayum, that's our mall.

Another "transient" used to make his own instruments, too...

ApatheticMonkey
Ruby amp setup. (new window)

why did you have to make my interblag browser cry :(