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2022-08-13 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Downtown Louisville is blocked off after suspicious package of white cylinders with wires is found at bus stop

[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]

Five white cylinders with wires were found at a Louisville, Kentucky, bus stop around 8am on Friday

Jefferson Street between Third and Sixth streets was shut down as a bomb squad investigated and removed the suspicious package

The bomb squad was seen releasing a robot from an armored vehicle, which then rolled toward the bus stop and placed the device into a black bin

All people confined within the area were asked to shelter in place by police until about 1.30pm.

All traffic has resumed in the area with the exception of vehicle traffic on Jefferson between 4th to 5th streets

The bus stop is located near City Hall and Metro Hall and it is unclear who discovered the suspicious package

A test? Local news station WHAS11 (linked by the Daily Mail article as a source) has video and a photo of the thing, and it looks like a cartoon bomb, not something serious.

Posted by Skidmark 2022-08-13 00:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 Shelter-in-place order lifted as federal authorities continue to investigate suspicious device of white cylinders with wires found under a bus stop in downtown Louisville

Posted by Skidmark 2022-08-13 07:04|| 2022-08-13 07:04|| Front Page Top

#2 Downloaded the Channel 11 photo to zoom in a bit and I see more tubing than wiring. All the wires appear to be attached to the small free-floating circuit board (which looks like it could be a simple low-voltage valve control of some sort) and not to the taller cylinders themselves. There is a short squat plastic container that I can't really see well though, and can't say if anything was connected to that.

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Posted by Mullah Richard 2022-08-13 08:15|| 2022-08-13 08:15|| Front Page Top

#3 One or more of the connecting hoses is disconnected.

One guess would be a generative dispersal agent overpressured the connective joint.

Posted by Skidmark 2022-08-13 09:26|| 2022-08-13 09:26|| Front Page Top

#4 That is a fair possibility, Skid.

Odd that it would be placed in open-air though, unless it's for testing the new Fauci/Wuhan 4.0 product.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2022-08-13 11:12|| 2022-08-13 11:12|| Front Page Top

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