Pipe Bomb Blasts San Diego FedEx

by amyjudd | April 25, 2008 at 03:06 pm | 851 views | 3 comments

When a pipe bomb exploded in a San Diego Federal Express distribution facility, the front door of the building was blown out. Thankfully no one was hurt.
A second pipe bomb was discovered in the parking lot and was safely defused.

The blast occurred in the 1600 block of 47th Street and Federal Boulevard at 1:47 a.m., according to San Diego police Sgt. Kerry Tom.

An employee inside the building initially thought some boxes had fallen over, said Tom, adding that the employee was not hurt.

When firefighters arrived, they found a second pipe bomb in the parking lot and safely defused it, the sergeant said.

"Two pipe bombs were left in front of the door. One detonated causing damage, the other was thrown into the parking lot and we rendered that one safe. We are assuming by what we saw that they were together, and the explosion of the first one pushed the second one into the parking lot," Metro Arson Strike Team Capt. Paul O'Brien said. "We have a lot of evidence we are going to have to process and we have to interview the people who work here."

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good stuff:

amyjudd, The youtube video you used are examples of WMD and those guys can be prosecuted just like the guys in Goose Creek SC who bought fireworks to us in Pipe bombs.  What are these guys thinking?  Thanks for the story, I hand not heard about it

April 25, 2008 at 03:06 pm by amyjudd, 851 views, 3 comments

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