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windshieldbug wrote:Talk about bad timing... well, that just make it easier I suppose; "our suspect list is limited to percussionists... "

Daryl Fletcher wrote:How close were you to this, Doug? I'm wondering if this is maybe just a couple of college students who need to learn some sense.
http://www.11alive.com/news/news_articl ... ryid=70355

To the Georgia Tech Community:
A Georgia Tech student has indicated his involvement in the Oct. 10
incident involving a crude bottle explosive found on east campus.
The incident was not in any way the work of a "terrorist" group.

The student turned himself in to Georgia Tech police the morning of
Oct. 11 and confessed to his involvement. He's facing charges for
possession of a destructive device (a felony under Georgia Law) and
reckless conduct (a misdemenor under Georgia law).

The freshman engineering student has been temporarily suspended
pending a student judiciary ruling.

Georgia Tech Police and the Atlanta Police Department are still
investigating the incident. The contents and exact nature of the
bottle explosives has not been determined and is still under
investigation.

While this incident unfortunately was frightening for many of our
students, faculty and staff, it turned out to be an excellent test of
Tech's emergency preparedness program. All emergency response
efforts functioned exceedingly well, and we have every confidence
that would be the case if such an incident occurred in the future.

Doug@GT wrote: GT sent out an email today:

To the Georgia Tech Community:
A Georgia Tech student has indicated his involvement in the Oct. 10
incident involving a crude bottle explosive found on east campus.
The incident was not in any way the work of a "terrorist" group.

The freshman engineering student has been temporarily suspended
pending a student judiciary ruling.

The contents and exact nature of the
bottle explosives has not been determined and is still under
investigation.
...
it turned out to be an excellent test of
Tech's emergency preparedness program. All emergency response
efforts functioned exceedingly well, and we have every confidence
that would be the case if such an incident occurred in the future.

yeah, right. Let cover up another one.

They still don't know what was in the bottle?

While hoping for something more creative (meaning an assortment of harmless household chemicals that cause something relatively harmless), it turns out it is just a dry ice thing. Tossed out a Glenn window and forgotten about when it didn't pop immediately, a facilities guy came by and squeezed it, heard the pop, grabbed his crotch and said "owe, my liver" in a Beavis voice. Sever trauma, chemical burns, heart attack, and major hearing loss were all reported to be the injuries of the facilities guy who was rushed to some major hospital ..... or just to some minor campus clinic and he pretty much only got startled and had a slight ringing in one ear that is less than someone gets from going to a loud concert (Naw, media doesn't hype anything). Typical over reaction (and just a "reaction" ... Not actually doing anything useful or preventative) by a bored, poorly managed city police force that would rather send the bomb squad to the former Popeyes on Piedmont a few Aprils ago, as opposed to getting a guy off a crane in the heart of Buckhead, keeping a murderer inside the guarded courthouse, and getting jumpers off of "not yet jumper proof" overpasses. With some stupid comments from city police top brass again, the next time you shake up a coke bottle or wine bottle for the comical pop and spew, APD will call in the Joint Terrorism Task Force to try to rack up some Federal Violations on you, you sleeper cell Al Queda operative you. Ya know they have nothing better to do, of course there are no murderers and rapist running arround, might as well call up the entire midtown sub-precint to make a bunch of rats stand outside at 10am and scare the bejesus out of the parents.

The freshman engineering student has been temporarily suspended
pending a student judiciary ruling.