Bomb squad blows up suspicious-looking bong
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Spokane police say that an item initially described by a passer-by as looking like a pipe bomb turned out to be a marijuana accessory.
KXLY-TV says the police bomb squad blew up the bong found Tuesday in an alley.
It was described as a section of black PVC pipe with white end caps.
Police cordoned off the area while they investigated. People who lived across the alley were told to stay inside.
By Tuesday afternoon, police spokeswoman Monique Cotton confirmed the device was "a piece of drug paraphernalia associated with marijuana."
sounds more like an amateur BHO tube.
Irresponsible bong owners
@KATUNews Wow!
Dude! You messed up my bong!!!!
Beware the Bong!  Â
The police are so paranoid these days. Been inhaling too much evidence
I said BONG you dumbass, not BOMB.
After the Feds overrule Washington's pot laws, they will be very busy blowing up lots of pot paraphernalia. Â It should be quite a show.Â
@Shadow This is not the first time. Last week it happened in Yakima.
Back in the 80's, my friend's mom was looking for a birthday gift idea for her older brother. She went in his room, trying to come up with something, and next to his fish tank was a filthy, cruddy, plastic tube contraption that was stinky and disgusting. She decided that maybe he would like a new filter, or whatever this thing was, and marched down to the aquarium store to show it to them and ask about a replacement. The guys at the fish store probably never laughed so hard, but all my friend's brother got for his birthday was the loss of his car keys and double-chamber acrylic water pipe.
@badcat I think this story is causing lots of childhood memories. I know I have one. :)
@badcat You know, a fresh bouquet of wild flowers seems to keep people from asking questions... And it brightens the room!
@badcat I have a friend who's mother kept griping about having to boil her son's socks because they always stunk so bad and were all sticky (NOT what you're thinking!).  Glue sniffer.
Tango down!
"black PVC pipe with white end caps."
I hate when you can't find matching colour caps & pipe. Naturally all pipe bombs are two-tone, didn't Hollywood teach us that?
@axpman You know, with a Beadazzler and some hot glue, we could market those and make a killing.  Just sayin'.
So can we call them the Bong squad.......
KATU -- Please make the Twitter twits go somewhere else -- they're incapable of posting anything longer than 140 characters and they're LAME.
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@Dr. Rawdog One would think that if it where a bomb, it would be the lightest pipe bomb. The Bomb Squad can't tell the difference between a pipe filled with explosive and a empty pipe? Glad the taxpayers are shelling out $$$ for that kind of quality training.
@Dr. Rawdog It is used to make BHO - an oil made by compacting the marijuana in a tube and running butane through it. It is not used for smoking at all. It is a plastic, sometimes glass tube with a small hole at the top and a screen or filter at the bottom.
@MissDB7 @Dr. Rawdog Got that, Doc?  Apparently that's how hash oil is made.
@Dr. Rawdog  Wouldn't a plastic bong be....oh, I don't know....flammable?  I'm a bit naive about what the kidlets are using now, we used ZigZags back in the day.
#lol â@KATUNews: A bomb squad in Wash. blew up a suspicious item that turned out to be a bong. http://t.co/OPxajHQ2GCâ
The "Yakima Pipe Bong" strikes again!
@KATUNews tax payer $ to the waste
â@KATUNews: A bomb squad in Wash. blew up a suspicious item that turned out to be a bong. http://t.co/wvzDQdnzvkâ good job America
Makes you wonder if they were using a similar item before they "investigated" and "destroyed" this potential "bomb"????? Fear is really getting out of hand, people!
Jeeeeezzzzzzz I wish these Twitter twits would vanish to wherever they were before 2 days ago. Â Â
@KATUNews lol
@TheDaKon How is your twit stuff ending up on this forum?  "lol"???
LOL! That's the second one in a couple of weeks.Â
Oooooh, we're supposed to blow up boMBs, not boNGs.
ooops, our bad. Sorry.Â
Yes, the end caps are to keep the water from being spilled out of the bong. Nothing worst then spilling bong water on the carpet. Well, there are worse things but decorum prevents me from going into that.
Spill your bong water on the carpet it will keep the K-9 busy for days.
@old_dollor When I was a freshman at Reynolds, my locker partner, who was, like, 12 and already familiar with JDH, got hazed by a couple of football jocks towering over him.  A few weeks later he showed up with a jar of really nasty-looking swampwater and at some point in the day he somehow dumped it into the vents one of a locker the bullies shared.
It was his big brother's bong water, and he had been saving it. It dripped out of the bottom of the locker onto the floor and, I don't know who he got to report it, but when the Vice Principal (the football coach) opened the locker to inspect it, he found a pipe or some sort of other drug paraphernalia. I don't think my locker partner could have planned that, but, it resulted in both of the dudes getting suspended and kicked off the team. Best revenge I ever saw.
@Playanekes @old_dollor OK, that's funny.  "Hey, a**wipe -- if you don't stop bothering me I'm gonna throw my dad's bong water at you."
@Sundowner @Playanekes @old_dollor Revenge against bullying, apparently.
@Playanekes @old_dollor People save bong water?  Why?