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Gift-Wrapped Manure Causes Bomb Scare at Steven Mnuchin's House

posted by martyb on Monday December 25 2017, @07:55PM   Printer-friendly
from the special-delivery dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42473607

A suspicious package that turned out to contain horse manure sparked a bomb scare near the Los Angeles home of US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, reports say.

The gift-wrapped manure was found at 19:40 (03:40 GMT) at the home next to Mr Mnuchin's in Bel-Air, police said.

Police cleared the package an hour later and the Secret Service is investigating, CBS said.

http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2017/12/23/horse-manure-addressed-to-steve-mnuchin/

There were a lot of frustrated neighbors. Including Zsa Zsa Gabor's widower.

"We have $50 million homes and we can't move, we can't get out," Prince Frederick von Anhalt, who was trapped for two hours, said. "That's bad, they have to find another way."

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  • (Score: 2) by frojack on Monday December 25 2017, @10:56PM (1 child)

    by frojack (1554) Subscriber Badge on Monday December 25 2017, @10:56PM (#614162) Journal

    If you admit that you lawfully killed Professor Plum in the billiard room with a lead pipe, there is no need to seize the lead pipe or the billiard room.

    Nonsense. Stupidest think I seen here all day.

    As soon as the pipe and billiard room are cleaned, you will retract your confession, and demand a jury trial, and claim police coercion. People confess to things they didn't do all the time.

    As for your Mall case [floridatoday.com] some other guy got killed - you sort of left that out, and nobody knew at that time that there was only one shooter. Google that mall and the word Shooting and you find 6 or 8 separate incidents over the last few years. Its the go to place to have a gun fight it seems. Yet you want the police to phone it in?

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 26 2017, @12:32AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 26 2017, @12:32AM (#614174)

    Nobody knew at that time that no shooter had escaped the mall either, so maybe shut down the whole city?

    Oh, a shooter could be in a house. Raid every house, in theoretical hot pursuit so no need for a warrant. Do no-knock SWAT raids with flash-bang grenades -- we don't want the police to phone it in.

    Oh, there is an interstate highway. A shooter could have gotten to it. Shut down I-95 for a hundred miles each direction.

    Oh, there is an airport. Shut down airspace within 300 miles.

    Oh, there is a beach. Shut down shipping off the coast of Florida.

    Nobody moves!!! Search everybody!!! Do CAT scans and DNA testing!!!