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Posted: 3/2/2006 3:33:08 PM EDT

You know, I understand being cautious and mindful of potential threats, hell I am scanning most of the time I am outside the house, and will check out the windows from time to time. But this is taking it a bit too far.

Am I wrong?

Band Sticker on Bike Causes Bomb Scare
Mar 02 6:26 PM US/Eastern
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ATHENS, Ohio

A sticker on a bicycle that said "this bike is a pipe bomb" caused a scare Thursday at Ohio University that shut down four buildings before authorities learned the message was the name of a punk rock band, a university spokesman said.

The sticker on the bike chained outside the university-owned Oasis restaurant near the center of campus attracted the attention of a police officer about 5:30 a.m., spokesman Jack Jeffery said.

Police blocked streets around the restaurant and the Columbus police bomb squad came from about 65 miles away.

The bomb experts hit the bike with a high-pressure spray of water, then pried it apart with a hydraulic device normally used to rescue accident victims trapped in cars, acting Athens Fire Chief Ken Gilbraith said. Once they had it open, they saw there was no bomb.

The buildings, including some classroom facilities, were reopened after a couple hours.

Dean of Students Terry Hogan urged students to be more careful when showing support for the band from Pensacola, Fla.

University police interviewed the bike's owner then released him, Jeffery said. Police are still investigating.

An e-mail seeking comment was sent to Plan-It-X Records, listed on a Web site for the band as its record label. The label does not have a published phone number.

The poor bastard probably just lost a $1,500 carbon fiber Trek.

Posted: 3/2/2006 3:47:05 PM EDT

[#1]

Is there some sort of national LEO contest for the most spectacular paranoid over-reaction to terrorism?

Posted: 3/2/2006 3:56:49 PM EDT

[#2]

Quoted:
You know, I understand being cautious and mindful of potential threats, hell I am scanning most of the time I am outside the house, and will check out the windows from time to time. But this is taking it a bit too far.

Am I wrong?

Yes. And so are they. You live in frikkin Colorado. The closest things you have to terrorists are rabid bears.

Posted: 3/2/2006 3:58:38 PM EDT

[#3]

I know if I ever plan to commit a terrorist act, I'll be sure to have a sticker made so everyone knows what I'm up to.

Posted: 3/2/2006 3:59:45 PM EDT

[#4]

this bike is a pipe bomb

if you are stupid enough to put this on your bike and park it in a public area you deserve to get it dissaseembled by the bomb squad. Who the hell knows what it is nowdays. frankly the city should have billed the dumbass for the cost of the bomb squad responding.

Posted: 3/2/2006 4:00:31 PM EDT

[#5]

Used to work for an ultra liberal "Boojie" owned bidness. They hired lots of really stupid people. One complained that I was a terrorist b/c I looked at gun and knife websites on my computer during my lunch break. Then she called 911 b/c "terrorists set fire to the building"; over toasted bagel in the break room toaster was the culprit. Your tax dollars at work, btw; DOL contractor.

Posted: 3/2/2006 4:01:02 PM EDT

[#6]

This is the world we are living in now.

Better get used to it.

I wonder if the terrorist in the middle east are using those stickers on ther IED's

Posted: 3/2/2006 4:06:13 PM EDT

[#7]

Quoted:
this bike is a pipe bomb

if you are stupid enough to put this on your bike and park it in a public area you deserve to get it dissaseembled by the bomb squad. Who the hell knows what it is nowdays. frankly the city should have billed the dumbass for the cost of the bomb squad responding.

I'd love to disrupt his bike.

Posted: 3/2/2006 4:07:18 PM EDT

[#8]

Quoted:
Quoted:
You know, I understand being cautious and mindful of potential threats, hell I am scanning most of the time I am outside the house, and will check out the windows from time to time. But this is taking it a bit too far.

Am I wrong?

Yes. And so are they. You live in frikkin Colorado. The closest things you have to terrorists are rabid bears.

No, I think that dude who sells the Kaboom cleaner lives near here....oh wait....Kaboom...lemme make a quick call...be right back....

Posted: 3/2/2006 4:09:40 PM EDT

[#9]

At my former company during the anthrax scare, one of the female QA engineers contacted the police because a "strange powder" was on her work area. The MA State Police showed up in full hazmat gear to investigate the "powder."

Turned out to be from a broken ceiling tile. Fucking idiots.

Posted: 3/2/2006 4:12:33 PM EDT

[#10]

i had to lookup this "band"

they describe themselves as FOLK PUNK. WTF is folk punk? that website looks like a serious list of looser bands.

if i was a leo and saw a bike with a "this bike is a pipe bomb" sticker on it i'd have likely done the same thing. yea, what bomber is gonna put a label on it? fact is it doesn't matter, they must err on the side of caution in such a case.

Posted: 3/2/2006 4:15:15 PM EDT

[#11]

He deserved what he got.

Posted: 3/2/2006 4:16:57 PM EDT

[#12]

Quoted:
this bike is a pipe bomb

if you are stupid enough to put this on your bike and park it in a public area you deserve to get it dissaseembled by the bomb squad. Who the hell knows what it is nowdays. frankly the city should have billed the dumbass for the cost of the bomb squad responding.

big +1.

they should have kicked him out of college for being a MORON.

Posted: 3/2/2006 4:24:34 PM EDT

[#13]

I'm still cracking up over the anti-fingernail clipper paraanoia at airlines. I always thought that they could arm all the passengers with a fingernail clippers and save the taxpayers from the expense of the security guards.

Posted: 3/2/2006 4:26:17 PM EDT

[#14]

Quoted:
Is there some sort of national LEO contest for the most spectacular paranoid over-reaction to terrorism?

FREEEEEEEEEZE MUTHA F@CKER.....!

Posted: 3/2/2006 4:26:46 PM EDT

[#15]

Talk about darwinism, they pried a potential bomb apart with a mechanical device. Bunch of winners I tell ya.

Posted: 3/2/2006 4:29:40 PM EDT

[#16]

Quoted:

The poor bastard probably just lost a $1,500 carbon fiber Trek.

thats an awfully inexpensive CF MTB

Posted: 3/2/2006 4:40:57 PM EDT

[#17]

So let me get this straight....some guy thought his bicycle was a desert cake made out of pipes?

Posted: 3/2/2006 4:50:53 PM EDT

[#18]

I guess i better take off my I am a terrorist tee shirt.

Posted: 3/2/2006 5:10:04 PM EDT

[#19]

When the average LEO press release calls a "Arsonal of Weapons" A 10/22, sks, and a case of ammo. I really have no trouble believing that they suffer from boordom, and crave the attention.

Posted: 3/2/2006 5:19:42 PM EDT

[#20]

Quoted:
When the average LEO press release calls a "Arsonal of Weapons" A 10/22, sks, and a case of ammo. I really have no trouble believing that they suffer from boordom, and crave the attention.

Good point.

This guy is probably at home snickering that some punk yuppie had his bike cut with the jaws of life.

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