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Fake bomb fizzles fundraiser at Royal Ontario Museum
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by Rob Peters | November 29, 2007 at 12:01 pm
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One of the few times a counterfeit is better than the real thing.
An elaborate bomb hoax forced the cancellation of a $600-a-plate black-tie fundraiser at the Royal Ontario Museum Wednesday night.A suspicious package was found in the glass-covered lobby of the ROM around 6:15 p.m., Toronto police said. Bomb squad officers closed down University Ave. and Bloor St. W., in the area around the ROM. The upper floors of the museum were evacuated.
The event was supposed to attract about 2,500 people, but Bloor St. W. was closed between St. George St. and Avenue Rd., while University Ave. was closed between Bloor and Queen’s Park Circle, at Hoskins Ave, from 6:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m.
The police Bomb Squad X-rayed and examined the package at the scene, and found it to be made to look like a series of pipe bombs, wrapped together with wiring. It didn’t contain an explosive device.
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at 12:38 on November 29th, 2007
I'm glad to hear, though, that nobody really wanted to destroy the stellar collection of antique typewriters that currently make their home at the ROM.
at 17:21 on November 29th, 2007
There's lots of commentary about this story on this blogTO article.
at 06:26 on November 30th, 2007
Update: Now the Globe & Mail reports that a student has turned himself in over the stunt, which has been deemed "a misguided art project": "In an interview with Torontoist.com yesterday, the man said he thought the disclosure notes he affixed to his project meant he wasn't breaking the law. He told the website the idea of the project was to show how context changes the meaning of a piece of art. In this case, something that is "quite clearly not dangerous, but when you put it in a different context the viewer recontextualizes it."