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IED Discovered On An Overpass In Brownsville

Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2011 5:25 pm
by VMI77

Re: IED Discovered On An Overpass In Brownsville

Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2011 6:54 pm
by tacticool
Did more details surface or was this like the Ignignokt scare in Boston?

Re: IED Discovered On An Overpass In Brownsville

Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2011 6:56 pm
by C-dub
tacticool wrote:Ignignokt
What?

Re: IED Discovered On An Overpass In Brownsville

Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2011 7:05 pm
by paulhailes
Bad link

Re: IED Discovered On An Overpass In Brownsville

Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2011 7:51 pm
by olafpfj
C-dub wrote:
tacticool wrote:Ignignokt
What?
"rlol"

"Hey shake...you can't put that there!!"

Re: IED Discovered On An Overpass In Brownsville

Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2011 9:35 pm
by Dave2
C-dub wrote:
tacticool wrote:Ignignokt
What?
A few years back someone put a home-made battery-powered illuminated sign of a cartoon character named Ignignokt on or under a bridge in Boston. The whole city came to a standstill because somebody thought it was a bomb.

Re: IED Discovered On An Overpass In Brownsville

Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2011 10:21 am
by Double Naught Spy
Actually, it wasn't one placard under a bridge, but placards all over the city along with Cambridge and Somerville. It was a movie promotional stunt. Turner Broadcasting paid the bill on that one, some $2 million. Something like 30 of the devices were installed.

Re: IED Discovered On An Overpass In Brownsville

Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2011 11:45 am
by Dave2
Double Naught Spy wrote:Actually, it wasn't one placard under a bridge, but placards all over the city along with Cambridge and Somerville. It was a movie promotional stunt. Turner Broadcasting paid the bill on that one, some $2 million. Something like 30 of the devices were installed.
There were a bunch in LA and some other major city as well. They just realized that the devices weren't bombs and didn't shut down.

Re: IED Discovered On An Overpass In Brownsville

Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2011 12:04 pm
by The Annoyed Man
VMI77 wrote:http://www.krgv.com/news/local/story/Im ... YhSwQ.cspx

Not much in the way of detail.
Probably left there by a photographer, after photographing the overpass.

Re: IED Discovered On An Overpass In Brownsville

Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2011 12:11 pm
by Dave2
The Annoyed Man wrote:
VMI77 wrote:http://www.krgv.com/news/local/story/Im ... YhSwQ.cspx

Not much in the way of detail.
Probably left there by a photographer, after photographing the overpass.
:smilelol5:

Re: IED Discovered On An Overpass In Brownsville

Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2011 5:41 pm
by Ameer
The Annoyed Man wrote:Probably left there by a photographer, after photographing the overpass.
:smilelol5:

In Boston they probably call the flashbulb on his camera an IED.