Thursday, March 02, 2006

APD: Saving the World One Bicycle at a Time

Apparently naming your band This Bike is a Pipe Bomb is a bad idea. Especially if you're going to make stickers that people put on their bikes. Chaining a bike that says This Bike is a Pipe Bomb outside of The Oasis is also apparently a bad idea. Athens PD completely freaked. They closed down everything in the general vicinity (including classroom buildings). They called in a bomb squad from Columbus and, from what I hear, blew up the guy's bike. In case you don't believe me, here's a link to the update to the story. The Athens Messenger updated the story online because the print edition was printed before the fiasco was over. The original story isn't there anymore. None of the other newspapers in town had anything about it. You'd think blowing up a poor, defenseless bike would get a bit more attention. Especially since it happened on campus. The Post at least should have mentioned it.

EDIT: The Columbus Dispatch cares about the bike. Apparently it wasn't blown up, it was sprayed to pieces with a firehose.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

It is pretty stupid to anything like that. People just dont seem to understand there's some things you just can't say or do in this world, anymore.

Ofcourse 10 years ago that probably wouldn't have happend. people would have looked at the bike and been like. "That's funny, where could he possibly hide a bomb on that"
I know I can't wear my Bomb Squad t-shirt ("If you can read this, try to keep up")

Anonymous said...

jacci's computer is a pipe bomb.

better hose it to death.

Anonymous said...

i'm not dead!!!! yay!!!!