Police Detonate Ham Radio Equipment Mistaken for Bomb

[burner50]

OMAHA (KPTM) - Police evacuated a midtown neighborhood briefly Thursday morning for what was originally thought to be a bomb, but in the end, it turned out to be ham radio equipment.

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[lowboy654]

Good deal I guess, the people that lived there in that house, It was on fire a week or so before, then the Cops blow there antenna up or what ever it was.

 

[Astrak]

http://www.radioreference.com/forums/rr-wasteland/136558-they-blew-up-my-balun.html right at the bottom of the page. Anyway it was all burned to a crisp, so the owner probably doesn't even care.

 

[joe_disco_electronics]

Remind me to steer clear of Omaha.

 

[kb2vxa]

Omahahaha.

 

[EricScan]

I wonder how often this kind of thing is genuine concern that something might be a bomb, vs how often the bomb squad just likes to blow stuff up. And I can't say I'd blame them for that - any kid in a fireworks store surely understands the appeal!

I'm a geocacher, and caches are occasionally mistaken for bombs and blown to smithereens by police. The cases where the cache is made of a length of PVC pipe and hidden in an urban area make sense. It makes less sense when the cache is a clear Tupperware container with a "geocaching" sticker in the middle of a forest preserve.

 

[car2back]

Tulsa PD has responded to a "suspicious looking object w/ wires sticking out" several times at one of the local theaters that turns out everytime to be a ran over light pole. They've even paged out bomb squad a couple times on it :lol:

I can see exactly how this happened, you win some you lose some

 

[mfn002]

A few weeks ago, College Station PD Bomb Squad responded to a medical office building when someone spotted a shoebox with the word "BOMB" written on it (it turned out to be full of paper).