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Noisy, blinking package shuts JP street; turns out to be a bag of stolen alarms

Oliver Young reports he called 911 when he spotted a "package blinking and making noise in the bushes" around 7:50 p.m. on Sigourney Street near Robeson.

Police shut the street, the bomb squad arrived, looked around and determined it was "just a bag of alarms," he says. "Shoplifting. A bunch of them. Five or six in there."

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...anti-shoplifting alarms cut off of packages by shoplifters. These things.

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... so that type of alarm didn't immediately come to mind, especially when the headline said "stolen alarms". I suppose the alarms could be considered collateral thefts, but the actual stolen items were obviously something else.

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Bombs don't blink and make noise. They sit waiting or blow up.

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This is the same police department world-famous for this overreaction, remember.

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Of course!

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AFAIK bombs have no ISO standards so they could if they were built that way

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I believe you.

But seriously, what would be the point of a bomb that made bells and whistles to tell you where it was and bring attention to itself? The only thing I could think of is some kind of "look over here so I can blow more people up" device. But that's stupid because the first person is going to do like this guy did and call it in.

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They could also glue a couple of gears on it and the bomb would be mistaken for a steampunk contraption!

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I gotta say, if I saw a package that was blinking and making noise in the bushes, I would call the cops too. Because, um, there's a strange package blinking and making noise in the bushes.

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makes a bomb that blinks and makes noise, which is then ignored by everyone (until it goes off) because of people like you who presume that bombs aren't made that way.

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You get to say I told you so. But it also has to be a black sphere with a burning fuse coming out of the top.

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has to say ACME in big letters on it.

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BOMB in big white letters as well.

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