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2022-08-13 -Short Attention Span Theater-
Downtown Louisville is blocked off after suspicious package of white cylinders with wires is found at bus stop
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Five white cylinders with wires were found at a Louisville, Kentucky, bus stop around 8am on Friday

  • Jefferson Street between Third and Sixth streets was shut down as a bomb squad investigated and removed the suspicious package

  • The bomb squad was seen releasing a robot from an armored vehicle, which then rolled toward the bus stop and placed the device into a black bin

  • All people confined within the area were asked to shelter in place by police until about 1.30pm.

  • All traffic has resumed in the area with the exception of vehicle traffic on Jefferson between 4th to 5th streets

  • The bus stop is located near City Hall and Metro Hall and it is unclear who discovered the suspicious package
A test? Local news station WHAS11 (linked by the Daily Mail article as a source) has video and a photo of the thing, and it looks like a cartoon bomb, not something serious.
Posted by Skidmark 2022-08-13 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11155 views ]  Top

#1 Shelter-in-place order lifted as federal authorities continue to investigate suspicious device of white cylinders with wires found under a bus stop in downtown Louisville
Posted by Skidmark 2022-08-13 07:04||   2022-08-13 07:04|| Front Page Top

#2 Downloaded the Channel 11 photo to zoom in a bit and I see more tubing than wiring. All the wires appear to be attached to the small free-floating circuit board (which looks like it could be a simple low-voltage valve control of some sort) and not to the taller cylinders themselves. There is a short squat plastic container that I can't really see well though, and can't say if anything was connected to that.

Photo
Posted by Mullah Richard 2022-08-13 08:15||   2022-08-13 08:15|| Front Page Top

#3 One or more of the connecting hoses is disconnected.

One guess would be a generative dispersal agent overpressured the connective joint.
Posted by Skidmark 2022-08-13 09:26||   2022-08-13 09:26|| Front Page Top

#4 That is a fair possibility, Skid.

Odd that it would be placed in open-air though, unless it's for testing the new Fauci/Wuhan 4.0 product.
Posted by Mullah Richard 2022-08-13 11:12||   2022-08-13 11:12|| Front Page Top

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