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Old 02-22-13 | 03:22 AM
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OP, be sure you do NOT put a sticker with your favorite bands name on your bicycle.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Bike_Is_a_Pipe_Bomb
On March 2, 2006 at 5:30 am an Ohio University police officer spotted a bicycle attached to the Oasis restaurant bearing a promotional sticker for the band. The officer saw the words, "This Bike Is a Pipe Bomb" and became concerned. The area was cordoned off, and part of the campus was closed for several hours. The bicycle was subsequently destroyed by the Athens bomb squad despite assurances from the bike's owner that it was just a sticker. The owner, a graduate student, was initially charged with inducing panic, a misdemeanor. However, the charges were dropped a few days later. Later the student was awarded money for the damages to his bicycle
Must have been a really stupid bomb squad that cut into a frame that they thought might contain explosives. That or they just wanted to destroy the bicycle when x-rays showed the tubing was clean.
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