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Bobenis
07-13-2005, 08:31 PM
Interesting. However I think it was just a homemade little M80 etc. The thing is tiny.

http://www.cbc.ca/gfx/pix/bc_pipe_bomb050713.jpg

Explosive device seized at Victoria ferry dock

Last Updated Wed, 13 Jul 2005 18:44:11 EDT

CBC News (http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2005/07/13/ferry-bomb050713.html)

A U.S. man has been charged with possessing an explosive device after allegedly carrying a homemade pipe bomb in his truck on a ferry to Victoria.

The 39-year-old, who lives near Seattle, was stopped when he arrived in the capital on Tuesday night after taking the Coho ferry from Port Angeles, Wash.
Device seized from pickup truck at Coho dock. (Victoria Police photo)

Canada Border Services Agency officers said they became suspicious while questioning the man, who was travelling with his daughter.

They said they examined his truck and found a suspicious device in the glove box – a 7½-centimetre brass pipe that was capped on each end and had a 15-centimetre green fuse-like string glued to one end.

They arrested him, secured the ferry terminal and called in the Victoria police.

A photo of the device was sent to the RCMP bomb squad in Vancouver, who advised their colleagues to put it in a secure container designed to hold explosives.
The RCMP Explosives Team was to travel to Victoria on Wednesday to examine the device and dispose of it.

The man, who lives in the Seattle suburb of Issaquah, was to appear in court in Victoria on Wednesday afternoon facing a charge of possession of an explosive device.

egarrard
07-14-2005, 12:46 AM
They're coming to get you... :Wink

I doubt that's a homemade firework. Only an ***** would use copper pipe for something like that.

deathrow
07-14-2005, 02:09 AM
They're coming to get you... :Wink

I doubt that's a homemade firework. Only an ***** would use copper pipe for something like that.
well usualy people who make illegal fireworks are *****s

T-shirt
07-14-2005, 02:55 AM
a brass casing would make an awesome firework (if you don't mind a little shrapnel)
Give how soon it is after the 4th of july it could well be a leftover. not the smartest thing to keep in your glove compartment, and certainly stupid to take on that particular ferry where Ahmed Ressam was caught sumggling explosives into the US, in Dec 1999 for a Millinium terror attack (same boat ,same run, going the other direction)

http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/time/1999/12/20/terrorism.html
not a huge firework, but big enough to be an effective detonator for a gas/propane tank on a vechile on the ferry.
Mistake or not the guy has violated a pile of state and federal laws, plus whatever canada wants to throw at him (most likely deported back to the US and NEVER return to Canada, at the very least)