Suspicious bike shuts down Mall of America parking ramp
10-08-19, 12:24 PM
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Why doubt? Who else would bump the thread after nine years?
Imagine their distress if they saw - {chews nails} - an e-bike!
Imagine their distress if they saw - {chews nails} - an e-bike!
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10-13-19, 12:53 PM
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This thread reminds me why I always leave a little card with my phone number and e-mail address when I lock up my bike at the airport. 
(No safety issue - airport bike trips are solo trips, so anyone that comes to my house would inevitably encounter a significant other and a dog. They are approximately the same size.)
(No safety issue - airport bike trips are solo trips, so anyone that comes to my house would inevitably encounter a significant other and a dog. They are approximately the same size.)
11-01-19, 02:44 PM
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Reminds me of what happened in a parking ramp here a few years ago. Call to Madison PD of a "suspicious" object on the roof of a parked car. Styrofoam cooler with an opening cut in the side, and what appeared to be wires protruding through the opening.
Turned out to be a home-made cat shelter, made for re-locating / re-orienting a feral cat. Member of a local cat rescue group left it on the roof for an adopter to pick up. "Wires" were bits of straw, stuffed into the "shelter" as insulation. The "incident" made the PD web site Incident Report page. Also turned out to be left there by a guy I used to volunteer with in this group. That was fun, posting the link to pretty-much everyone we mutually knew.
Turned out to be a home-made cat shelter, made for re-locating / re-orienting a feral cat. Member of a local cat rescue group left it on the roof for an adopter to pick up. "Wires" were bits of straw, stuffed into the "shelter" as insulation. The "incident" made the PD web site Incident Report page. Also turned out to be left there by a guy I used to volunteer with in this group. That was fun, posting the link to pretty-much everyone we mutually knew.
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11-01-19, 03:11 PM
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Note to self.
Cover the wires of an improvised bomb, and nobody will ever recognize it.
Cover the wires of an improvised bomb, and nobody will ever recognize it.
11-01-19, 04:06 PM
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glad this has happened because of the sloppy dyno wiring on my commuter
11-01-19, 04:16 PM
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11-01-19, 10:13 PM
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In Graham Greene's The Quiet American (1955) Vietnam insurgents detonate small bombs hidden inside bike pumps.
