04-25-2011, 14:55
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IED Discovered on Texas Highway
http://www.krgv.com/news/local/story...EX_-YhSwQ.cspx
BROWNSVILLE - Police say a passerby on the southbound side of Highway 77 noticed what looked like a grenade near the FM 1732 overpass and alerted authorities around 5 p.m. Sunday.
The improvised explosive device or I-E-D was disarmed by a bomb squad using a robot. No one was hurt. Parts of Highway 77 were closed for several hours.
Police are continuing to investigate
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04-25-2011, 15:07
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Originally Posted by Dusty
http://www.krgv.com/news/local/story...EX_-YhSwQ.cspx
BROWNSVILLE - Police say a passerby on the southbound side of Highway 77 noticed what looked like a grenade near the FM 1732 overpass and alerted authorities around 5 p.m. Sunday.
The improvised explosive device or I-E-D was disarmed by a bomb squad using a robot. No one was hurt. Parts of Highway 77 were closed for several hours.
Police are continuing to investigate
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OMG!
WTH??? 
Holly
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04-25-2011, 16:29
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Wait until he have several located in all lower 48 states on the same day, would that alarm anyone that we are at war with these clowns?
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04-25-2011, 16:55
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My first thought...
My first thought on hearing about grenades or rocket launchers is to think of training or de-militerized stuff.
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04-25-2011, 17:03
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Wait until he have several located in all lower 48 states on the same day, would that alarm anyone that we are at war with these clowns?
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I wonder just which 'clowns' we're talking about here? 
Anybody from Ringling Bros file a missing persons report recently?
Richard 
IED On Expressway Had No Detonator
BrownsvilleHerald, 25 Apr 2011
Brownsville police are releasing few details of an improvised explosive device found along U.S. Expressway 77/83 Sunday afternoon.
The "modified pineapple grenade" was discovered by a concerned citizen on the southbound lane of the expressway, who contacted authorities, said police spokesman Eddie Garcia.
Garcia said the device was poorly constructed and would not have expoded because it did not contain a detonator, the element used to trigger an explosive.
Authorities shut down the expressway’s southbound lane from FM 1732 to Alton Gloor Boulevard for about three hours, while the police department’s bomb squad checked out the device, Garcia said.
At about 6:45 p.m. the bomb squad "rendered the device safe," Garcia said. The southbound lane of the expressway reopened at 8 p.m.
http://www.brownsvilleherald.com/new...ce-caused.html
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04-25-2011, 17:19
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police say a passerby on the southbound side of Highway 77 noticed what looked like a grenade near the FM 1732 overpass and alerted authorities around 5 p.m. Sunday.
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Get the residue kit..
http://prod.sandia.gov/techlib/acces...001/013942.pdf
http://prod.sandia.gov/techlib/acces...005/056908.pdf
for the "passerby"..
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04-25-2011, 18:16
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Pretty close to Mexico...
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04-25-2011, 23:37
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How would (state) DOT respond to reports of 20 + annoymous calls of INERT DEVICES in diferrent locations?
Cost of resouces, man hours, etc., just to explore, and also the loss of commerce in the discovery, traffic, loss of productive man hours at the local fabribcation shop, or grocery store, etc.
The're killing us by a 1000 paper cuts and lemon juice.
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04-26-2011, 10:00
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Sounds like a practice grenade body.
You can buy them all day long for $5-$10 each.
TR
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04-27-2011, 17:14
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Dusty
http://www.krgv.com/news/local/story...EX_-YhSwQ.cspx
BROWNSVILLE - Police say a passerby on the southbound side of Highway 77 noticed what looked like a grenade near the FM 1732 overpass and alerted authorities around 5 p.m. Sunday.
The improvised explosive device or I-E-D was disarmed by a bomb squad using a robot. No one was hurt. Parts of Highway 77 were closed for several hours.
Police are continuing to investigate
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Reading this... I say just because it is on a roadside it doesn't make it a IED... UXO would be better.
But Apples to oranges..
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04-27-2011, 18:32
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Personally...I have to kinda wonder how " some passerby" driving along the highway at " Texas speed" ( much faster than the posted speed limit) just happened to notice an old pineapple grenade-sized object lying over in the grass and was driven to report it to the authorities as a suspiciously hazardous IED?
And so it goes...
Richard
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04-27-2011, 18:51
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Odd
I agree w/ Richard. That is a 55MPH section of TX77 located at GE
Lat: 25.949227° Long: -97.504820° and I doubt "some passerby" heard "frag" or saw anything of that size, drought or no drought. Dead feral hog, maybe!
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04-28-2011, 14:56
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You may be on to somethig
You may be on to something. Driven through Texas several time, personnally doesn't sound right.
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05-01-2011, 22:45
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An old-school EOD troop might have picked it out while driving by but I can pretty much guarantee an EOD troop would have checked it out and thrown it in his trunk. Incident over...  Miller time.
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