The guy who lives behind us, Steve, occasionally buys contents of abandoned storage units and then has garage sales and sells all the stuff. Recently he bought stuff from a storage unit near McDonalds in Newberg. He brought some of the stuff home yesterday, and started going through it. In one of the boxes, he found a pipe bomb. So he called 911, and they put him in touch with the State Police in Salem. They had to come all the way from Salem with their special equipment. This all took several hours. The local fire and sheriff departments blocked off the street, and they of course evacuated his property. Then they built some sort of little shelter out of cement block, and used a robot to carry the bomb and put it into the shelter. If you look closely at the photo, you can see the robot on the left, and the guy in a protective suit. Then they set off the bomb. We were watching from behind Daryl's house. There wasn't much of an explosion, so we don't know if it actually had explosives in it or what. They use a rifle or something to set it off. We didn't get all the information yet about what actually happened. Waiting for Daryl to get the scoop and share. The photo above was taken after they set it off, and the guy in protective clothing is checking to make sure it is safe.Interesting thing is that a couple weeks ago they found 4 pipe bombs under people's cars in Salem, so we don't know if this was the guy who did that or what. Assume they are tracking him down...
Here's a picture of the spectators (Rich, Daryl, Vonnie):
Other than that, we've been eating lots of tomatoes and zucchini.
1 comment:
You don't know the proper procedure when you find a pipe bomb? You go looking for the nearest Republican Party fund-raiser, shove it up the chairman's asshole, get far away and detonate it.
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