Suspicious Item Brings Explosive Unit to P.G.
Thursday, November 15, 2012 @ 3:19 PM
Suspicious item lays in laneway – photo Courtesy RCMP
Prince George, B.C. – The RCMP’s explosive Device Unit was in action in Prince George yesterday as team members dealt with a suspicious looking item discovered in a laneway between Gorse and Hemlock Streets.
The item was spotted by a work crew in the area, and they called it in.
General Duty Officers were the first to go take a look at the device. “The device had been there for some time” says RCMP Media Liaison Corporal Craig Douglass . “It was rigged to look like it could blow up, it had what appeared to be a radio receiver and wires.”
The call was made to bring in the BC RCMP’s Explosives Disposal Unit (EDU) from the lower mainland.
( at right, member of EDU approaches suspicious item – photo courtesy RCMP)
Just after noon, members of the EDU attended the scene and destroyed the device. After further examination, it was determined that the device was not capable of an explosion, but was made to look like it was.
Some homes in the area were evacuated for a short period of time during this incident.
The investigation into this matter is concluded.
Comments
Looks more like “some garbage lying in an alley”.
That’s after it was destroyed. Of course it looks like garbage.
Looks like a discarded tinfoil hat.
As if they couldn’t get a clueless “gangster” to pick it up and give it a shake to see if it blows up real good in exchange for a reduced one day plus eighteen month probation sentence. Would work for me.
What a waste on money. A team from Van has to run up here to see a bunch of junk in an alley?? I would have walked up to it and tossed it in the garbage. How many cars or people went past it before these clowns spent 100 grand to put on a cool suit and say “it’s OK”?? Shoot the damn thing–that’s what you do with people who are questionable.
This has got to be a joke. No sane managers would have let this get to this stupid.
OMG someone chucked their junk.
are you guys really this stupid? this is a picture of it after its been destroyed.
Its better to be safe than sorry.
No, it isn’t better — I don’t want my tax dollars spent on extravigant little games for big boys.
Job well done by the EDU. That item could have been placed anyway in the city. Thumbs up RUEZ…serve and protect.
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