It's about time...

Doug@GT · Post by **Doug@GT** » Mon Oct 10, 2005 3:26 pm

...My school finally made Drudge.

Daryl Fletcher · Post by **Daryl Fletcher** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 10:29 am

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

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 10:42 am

"It will be a joint investigation between the Atlanta Police Department, the Georgia Tech Police Department, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, the FBI and the Joint Terrorism Task Force"

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

Kevin Hendrick · Post by **Kevin Hendrick** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 1:26 pm

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

We'll have to wait and see if they can "beat the rap"

Doug@GT · Post by **Doug@GT** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 9:47 pm

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

I was close in that I drove by the scene wondering why the heck a couple of firetrucks were blocking Techwood. I figured Glenn Hall had caught on fire or something fun like that.

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 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.

So, yes, we even have some dummies at Tech, and our police department is awesome.

Doug "too bad the kid didn't get hit with the federal charges"

ThomasDodd · Post by **ThomasDodd** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 11:02 am

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.

yeah, right. Let cover up another one.
http://www.aim.org/guest_column_print/4077_0_6_0/

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

Engineering???
interesting...

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.

The perp turned himeself in. They didn't catch him.
They still don't know what was in the bottle? That's functioning exceedingly well?

I wonder how many bottles were found?
Not the number they released, but the actuall number found.

Doug@GT · Post by **Doug@GT** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 1:02 pm

yeah, right. Let cover up another one.

Oklahoma was a special case. I think the FBI (or somebody else that is tight-lipped) took over that investigation immediately.

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

Rumor mill says dry ice.

BTW, there was a more detailed report sent out Tuesday evening, but I seem to have misplaced it.

The perp is an 18-year-old freshman Nuclear and Radiological Engineering student.

More from the Rumor Mill: word has it the kid made the "bomb" hoping for the bang, and when it didn't explode, he just threw it out, figuring it was a dud. Janitor picks it up, it pops, and he panics.

One of our illustrious band alumni had this to say:

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.

Doug "at least the whole thing is still more interesting than Chan Gailey's offense--ZING!"

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 1:07 pm

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

Obviously, he has no aptitude for engineering...

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