Cologne bottle causes grenade scare in Seattle
SEATTLE -- A section of a downtown Seattle street was closed for about two hours Monday evening after someone reported seeing a man dressed in black clothes drop what looked like a hand grenade into a public trash compactor.
Police spokesman Jeff Kappel said Third Avenue near University Street was reopened to traffic after the item was examined and determined to be harmless, though it was ominous looking from a distance.
The item turned out to be a bottle of Viktor & Rolf "Spicebomb" men's cologne, which Kappel said looks similar to a "pineapple-style" hand grenade.
The item will be submitted into evidence for further forensic analysis.
Police spokesman Jeff Kappel said Third Avenue near University Street was reopened to traffic after the item was examined and determined to be harmless, though it was ominous looking from a distance.
The item turned out to be a bottle of Viktor & Rolf "Spicebomb" men's cologne, which Kappel said looks similar to a "pineapple-style" hand grenade.
The item will be submitted into evidence for further forensic analysis.
"Spicebomb...a man's cologne...if the explosion doesn't kill you, the smell will..."
I know y'all feel it is a great waste of time and money but in Phoenix flashlights (four of them) were actually blowing up and hurting people.
and they haven't caught the guy yet....been a little while since on went off though...
This is a ludicrous sign of how wasteful our paranoia is making police and this during a time of record setting budget deficits and cuts to services such as police and fire..... It was a cologne bottle! What more analysis is really needed? Oh, it had alcohol in it so there's a potential excellerant..... My thought is our police are too needy to justify their expensive toys that may get used once in 5 years, with this being that one usage. That or they watched an episode of "COPS" where a real bomb was found in some anti-govenment anarchist's lair down in San Diego. (funded by a Mexican drug lord)
 @MickRoh "Lair" ... do they actually use that word anymore? ;-)
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Oh man. This is just too funny. We live in fear of someone blowing up something. 9/11 was a monumental success for al-Qaeda.
 @RalphCramden You are so right, Ralph. Like old FDR said, we have nothing to fear but fear itself. Our greatest enemy isn't Al Qaeda, or the Taliban, or the Commies, Nazis, radicalized grandmas or demonstrative kindergardeners.
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Our greatest enemy is fear.
@RalphCramden I have to agree with you entirely! It's very sad but very true. We are almost paralized by paranoia..... To quoat the Kinks, "Paranoia will distroy ya!"
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 @RalphCramden  @MickRoh This is how Al-Queada has won. they have caused us to now live in fear, which is what their goal was.
I don't know why. it could have been in retaliation for any one of our former president's actions against them. but it now does not matter. for they have Won in the way that our very society now takes steps whenever any new threat comes along. we have had a shoe bomber and an underwear bomber. I am surprised we are still allowed to wear our underwear while flying. I expect naked flying airlines to be invented next.
And what did all that cost?