Suspicious bike shuts down Mall of America parking ramp
10-28-10, 01:30 PM
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Suspicious bike shuts down Mall of America parking ramp
https://www.kare11.com/news/news_arti...storyid=878932
BLOOMINGTON, Minn. -- A "suspicious bicycle" forced the Mall of America (MOA) to close the east parking ramp Monday.
According to Mark Stehlik with the Bloomington police department, a bike was found on the first level (P1 East) of one of the MOA parking ramps with a battery and several wires attached to it.
Stehlik said the Bloomington bomb squad was called to inspect the bike that was chained to a railing.
By mid-afternoon, Bloomington police gave the all clear for the parking ramp to re-open when nothing was found and the owner was located.
Looks like it was someones lights. Go figure.
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BLOOMINGTON, Minn. -- A "suspicious bicycle" forced the Mall of America (MOA) to close the east parking ramp Monday.
According to Mark Stehlik with the Bloomington police department, a bike was found on the first level (P1 East) of one of the MOA parking ramps with a battery and several wires attached to it.
Stehlik said the Bloomington bomb squad was called to inspect the bike that was chained to a railing.
By mid-afternoon, Bloomington police gave the all clear for the parking ramp to re-open when nothing was found and the owner was located.
Looks like it was someones lights. Go figure.
Paul
10-28-10, 01:54 PM
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Gee, what about all those potential car bombs in the parking lot???
10-28-10, 02:07 PM
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I guess none of the Mall of America security staff ride bikes in the dark.
10-28-10, 02:17 PM
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Insert Lake Woebegone joke here.
10-28-10, 02:19 PM
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Someday I want to take a pair of those blinking kids shoes, set the blinkies to on all the time and leave the shoes outside a store entrance (Hawaii / Japanese home style).
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On my last European tour I was staying at a campground in Heidelberg, Germany. I was touring with a NightSun light system, the one with the NiCad cells in a water bottle with the leads coming out the nozzle. See where this is going? I left it plugged into the charger in the communal kitchen while I went sightseeing in town. When I returned later that afternoon there were two POLIZEI cars and a van parked next to the office. When I went to get my battery and charger they were gone. I though I had been ripped off and went to see the proprietor. By that time the cops had left. He sheepishly told me he though the battery might have been a bomb and called the police, who confirmed it was indeed a battery.
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Why is everything with batteries and wires a bomb? It's called riding at night. Or possibly an electric bike, there wasn't a lot of detail. Brightened my day though!
10-28-10, 04:26 PM
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I keep my iPod shuffle and ear buds in an old Altoids can. Only once has it gotten flagged going through airport security. I guess the mall cops are better at spotting these "dangers" things than TSA.
10-28-10, 04:49 PM
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Maybe they thought the wire was hooked up to a Cherry "bomb" tail light 
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You folks are aware this is a zombie thread, right?
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Yes. I saw that, but I don't believe it.
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