Sprinkler Parts

[Jacobin]

MIAMI - The Port of Miami was hit by its second terrorism scare in two days Monday when a package that was to be loaded onto a cruise ship tested positive for plastic explosives. Authorities later determined it was just a box of sprinkler parts.


The package was initially tested six times, and each time it came back positive for the military-grade explosive known as C4, the Coast Guard said.

The package was destroyed, and a Miami-Dade County police bomb squad determined the sprinkler parts contained a substance that "closely resembles" plastic explosives, said police spokesman Bobby Williams.

Williams said the instruments used to test the package sometimes give false positives.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070108/ap_on_re_us/miami_bomb_threat

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[lies and propaganda]

1. Dont you feel safer already?

I, for one, am very relieved.

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[xultar]

2. OK who the fuck is gonna pay for that. And false positives...don't get me started.

:grr:

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

6. YOU will pay, xultar. As will I.

They could have been nukular sprinkler parts, ya know.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

3. Sprinkler parts...

are often used to deliver lawn chemicals. Lawn chemicals often contain nitrates and phoshates, which often give false positives in explosives tests.

[MADem]

9. I am thinking they are parts for the fire supression system aboard the ship

In case some drunken passenger swings a chair over their head and breaks off the valve, or something of that nature. This stuff was headed aboard the cruise ship, right?

[partylessinOhio]

4. Sprinkler parts from Israel? They are the leaders in irrigation.

[Tekla West]

5. what will they think of next?

ya can do a lot of damage with a sprinkler ya know. Ever seen the Grand Canyon? I rest my case.

[Turbineguy]

7. Uh... it's a ship

fire sprinkler system parts?

[MADem]

8. On MSNBC today they said if it tests for C4, it IS C4...so someone is lying!!

Really...they claimed that it doesn't give a false positive....!

Feel safer yet?