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Title: Pittsburgh Marathon Route Altered By Explosive Device
Post by: bijou on May 02, 2010, 02:00:35 PM
Pittsburgh police were forced to detour a final segment of the 2010 Pittsburgh Marathon Sunday after an explosive device was found in a small microwave oven on the route, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported.

Pittsburgh Police Sgt. James Kohnen told the newspaper that the microwave had a "suspicious explosive device" inside it and that a police robot was used to defuse it. ...
http://www.myfoxdc.com/dpps/news/pittsburgh-marathon-route-altered-by-explosive-device-dpgonc-km-20100502_7342419
Title: Re: Pittsburgh Marathon Route Altered By Explosive Device
Post by: DixieBelle on May 02, 2010, 02:10:09 PM
wait, there was a microwave oven found on the street??
Title: Re: Pittsburgh Marathon Route Altered By Explosive Device
Post by: bijou on May 02, 2010, 02:12:02 PM
wait, there was a microwave oven found on the street??
Yes, AP has a few more details http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jMU8PO3zAFP1sAsmZ0YNfF7imPpQD9FESMOO0
Title: Re: Pittsburgh Marathon Route Altered By Explosive Device
Post by: DixieBelle on May 02, 2010, 02:14:58 PM
interesting....troubling too.
Title: Re: Pittsburgh Marathon Route Altered By Explosive Device
Post by: The Village Idiot on May 02, 2010, 03:25:02 PM
Got to be hard running a marathon while wearing bullet-proof vest and a gas mask.
Title: Re: Pittsburgh Marathon Route Altered By Explosive Device
Post by: Ralph Wiggum on May 02, 2010, 04:08:36 PM
Further reasons why I wouldn't run a marathon.  :-)
Title: Re: Pittsburgh Marathon Route Altered By Explosive Device
Post by: Randy on May 02, 2010, 05:19:58 PM
Further reasons why I wouldn't run a marathon.  :-)

And, uh, ummm they rank right up there at the top too huh?
Title: Re: Pittsburgh Marathon Route Altered By Explosive Device
Post by: DefiantSix on May 02, 2010, 10:24:54 PM
And, uh, ummm they rank right up there at the top too huh?

I would imaging that the top 3-4 slots would be occupied by the man's beer gut portable, low-density grain storage facility.  Not as reasons, just that it takes up that much space.   :-)
Title: Re: Pittsburgh Marathon Route Altered By Explosive Device
Post by: littlelamb on May 02, 2010, 10:37:49 PM
That is amazing the things people will do
Title: Re: Pittsburgh Marathon Route Altered By Explosive Device
Post by: DefiantSix on May 02, 2010, 10:48:07 PM
That is amazing the things people will do

Just wait until the world is going to hell in a hand basket, the shit is officially hitting the fan, and we stand on the cusp of a zombie apocalypse threatening to drag the civilized world kicking and screaming into a new dark age.  That's when the truly amazing shit will be on display.

Of course, if you're being amazed by all the amazing shit, I'm liable to trip you while we're running from the zombies.  Just to buy a few more seconds for number one, you understand...  :-)
Title: Re: Pittsburgh Marathon Route Altered By Explosive Device
Post by: Godot showed up on May 03, 2010, 01:42:56 PM


Of course, if you're being amazed by all the amazing shit, I'm liable to trip you while we're running from the zombies.  Just to buy a few more seconds for number one, you understand...  :-)

Oh, so you're the Ty Burrell character from the 2004 Dawn of the Dead remake. He didn't end up too well. Then again, none of them did, so maybe you've got something there.

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Back OnT--didn't the Pakistan-Taliban threat warn of explosions (plural) across the US? The report also reads that no actual explosives were involved, but at the same time x-rays of the microwave (that's a bit funny to say, when you think about it) made them worried.

Not saying they're connected, but I'm not saying they're not, either (NY and Pittsburgh).


http://www.myfoxny.com/dpp/news/pennsylvania/bomb-scare-during-pittsburgh-marathon-20100502-ac?obref=obnetwork
Title: Re: Pittsburgh Marathon Route Altered By Explosive Device
Post by: IassaFTots on May 03, 2010, 01:53:03 PM
We had one outside Dallas yesterday too. 

http://www.wfaa.com/news/crime/Colleyville-police-working-with-ATF-on-bomb-case-92684869.html
Title: Re: Pittsburgh Marathon Route Altered By Explosive Device
Post by: FUBO on May 04, 2010, 08:50:36 AM
Did they find any hot pockets in that microwave? Because if I'm watching a marathon, I've got to have me some junk food.