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Nothing To See Here, Move Along Folks
Posted by: LC JackBoot IC/A-OBR in Allah's Assholes, Homeland Insecurity, Journaljizzm2:22 PM
Hat Tip: BC via Sig94. Sig has a great take on this as well over at his digs too: The Land Mine Pixies Are At It Again
Ahh, what’s this? Oh just another item from Iraq or Afghanistan with the splodeyating, goat-molesting, assholes-for-allah seeding some more IEDs right?
WRONG– do read on as the story was only carried by a few local news outlets.
This mine, likely an anti-vehicle model, experts said, was found by two teens out with their mother and dog for a walk Friday. A bomb-disposal team found another nearby yesterday.
STRATHROY — A country creek where children swim, fish and frolic was instead swarmed by police yesterday as Canadian Forces explosives experts detonated two live landmines.
Strathroy? A quick consultation of a map determined it’s just a bit west of London, Ontario. That’s rather odd, I didn’t think the Boy Scouts have a merit badge for the care, feeding and planting of landmines. Two, Live, Anti-Tank landmines.
The mines, found in a culvert that runs under Inadale Drive between Strathroy and Mt. Brydges, appeared to have timers and were likely the type used to blow up tanks, Strathroy-Caradoc police say.
One mine was discovered by two girls Friday. They called police, and a second mine was found yesterday morning, only one metre away from the first.
Now you have my attention. Anti-Armor mines with timers planted in a stream bed in Ontario. It’s not like somebody just misplaced them and I don’t recall seeing any of those little bad-boys on sale recently at my favorite arms dealer either. Let’s just read on, but the smell-o-meter is rising.
Unsure if more mines are hidden nearby, Strathroy police asked the OPP to conduct a sweep. It was to have been done by dusk yesterday.
The creek is popular with families, so police suspect the mines were put there to maim and kill, or in callous disregard of that possibility.
“The senseless loss of life or grievous bodily harm that could have taken place at this creek — it’s reprehensible,” Strathroy-Caradoc police Sgt. Mike Overdulve said.
Live mines with timers, planted in an area frequented by families. Gee, I wonder what malignant, murderous bastard or bastards would do something like that. It couldn’t be terrorists right? The left assures us the only terrorists are the ones being created in Iraq, due to the occupation by the eeevil US and coalition forces. “Everybody” knows the airtight security in North America would never allow them here.
The potential for devastation was evident yesterday as a military team detonated the mines from a safe distance.
The force of the blast ripped bark and limbs from a tree and sprayed water so high it could be seen by observers a kilometre away.
“I could feel the percussive force,” Overdulve said, “It was 100 times louder than any fireworks you ever heard.”
Seven centimetres thick and 25 centimetres in diameter, the mines appear to be the kind used to disable tanks.
One brilliant j-school graduate in another piece on this story, described them as ’suspected’ mines. Let’s have a peek shall we at what a suspected mine looks like:
“We can’t definitively prove that, but that is the direction we are leaning,” Overdulve said.
Well it does look at bit like this M15 U.S. Anti-Tank Mine:
But then I’m not a highly-trained professional explosives expert. Maybe it’s just a coinky-dink.
After the detonation, the explosives experts found debris “consistent with timers,” he said.
Timers? Maybe to splodeyate the splodeyating device during a time when there would likely be innocents about.
The first mine was found Friday afternoon by nearby resident Lynn Denning, who walked to the creek with her two teenage daughters so that their yellow lab, Jesse, could enjoy the cold water.
“It’s upsetting,” she said.
While Inadale is a two-lane country road, many residents cross the culvert to commute to London, Denning said.
“There’s quite a lot of traffic during the week,” said Denning, who commutes to work at London Health Sciences Centre.
So, the placement could also take out the bridge at a convenient time, perhaps during the morning rush-hour with a school bus or two nearby.
The family called Strathroy-Caradoc police, who sought help from the OPP, who called in the explosive ordinance disposal team from CFB Base Borden. The explosives team left its base 100 kilometres north of Toronto at 6:20 a.m. yesterday. “We responded quickly — we take this matter quite seriously,” said Capt. Cheryl Swarbrick, a base spokesperson. Their presence was soon felt and heard on a normally quiet, tree-lined road. “I’ve seen hand grenades and ammunition, but I never encountered anything like this,” Overdulve said. Until a year ago, Overdulve lived near the creek, taking his three kids there to fish so often, they called it “crayfish creek.”
“This area is typically occupied by children, who come here to play,” he said.
Take you pick of scenarios, kids or commuters.
POLICE SEEK WITNESSES
Anyone who has recently been to the creek beneath Inadale Road between Strathroy and Mt. Brydges, or has seen anyone acting suspiciously near the creek, is asked to call Strathroy-Caradoc police at 519-245-1250.
Inquiring minds want to know. For whatever it’s worth, this area is only a 90 minute drive from Mecca West™, otherwise known as Detroit, Michigan, USA. Perhaps the FBI should start shaking the bushes, trees and knocking on a few mosque doors, but we wouldn’t want to offend the Religion of Pieces inhabitants now would we? Why that would be profiling, can’t have that.
I let this one sit overnight, actually expecting a bit of a ripple on the national level MSM. Not a single peep. The few articles I located were all local Canadian news outlets and nadda, zip, nothing dated today.
Nothing to see here….move along folks. We can’t make a bid deal out of this, the unwashed masses might jump to conclusions.
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Not seeing it covered elsewhere … interesting. Can’t we just fumigate the whole Detroit area for these insects? Flea bomb them, so to speak?
August 6th, 2007 at 2:32 PMUsing
Sorry to play devil’s advocate, but how do we know it’s muslim terrorists. I am not dismissing that possiblility, how can we be sure it’s not some local nutcase?
August 6th, 2007 at 2:47 PMUsing
I’m curious. If the scum who planted this were from Detroit, why didn’t they plant it on this side of the border?
I suspect this was a plot by BushCheneyRove and the RNC.
August 6th, 2007 at 2:52 PMUsing
When that spokesman for al Queada said they were going to bomb London, he didn’t say which London…
August 6th, 2007 at 2:59 PMUsing
Mindy-
We don’t, but when investigating a case like this, you start with circumstantial evidence. Those were military ordnance with timers, not home-made pipe bombs. Having spent my hitch in the military, I’m well aware that those devices aren’t just left lying around unsecured. That implies some conspiracy to steal them, making it unlikely that a lone individual could accomplish that. They were placed in an area frequented by civilians, primarily children. Add in proximity to Detroit, a known breeding-ground for domestic, muslim terror cells and you’ve got a decent start on where to begin looking. Moreover, it’s across the border and just far enough away to seed some doubt into the location of the actual perps.
If you’re in the woods and hear hoofbeats, most people think horses, not Zebras.
Who gives a hoot-in-hell if it’s a local nutcase, it’s still a terrorist.
The real story, behind the story is, why it’s not being blasted across every major media-outlet in North America.
Ned B-
Simply put, you don’t shit in your own backyard and crossing our northern border is a joke of security.
August 6th, 2007 at 3:09 PMUsing
I’d a’ been tempted to replace them with inert fakes, plant security cams about ‘em, sit back n’ see who know’s where they are.
August 6th, 2007 at 3:20 PMUsing
could be canadian moose-limbs as well. doing a practice run? yikes!
August 6th, 2007 at 3:23 PMUsing
Unless, of course, you’re Chelsea Clinton’s significant other, in which case you’d probably think that the in-laws were coming to visit.
August 6th, 2007 at 3:28 PMUsing
Methinks it was probably done by several young male non-citizens of middle eastern origin.
August 6th, 2007 at 3:36 PMUsing
Boss-
I don’t care what you say, that there’s funny.
Cheapster, Brotha:
I like how you think, maybe even better, install a remote detonator on ‘em and save the taxpayers money for a show trial. “Mysterious Explosion Kills Young-Males of Unspecified Descent”, sounds pretty neat, huh?
August 6th, 2007 at 3:38 PMUsing
Seems pretty easy to track back…not so sure how the Canuks are about such things but it would seem items such as these would have to be kept under a pretty tight inventory / accountablity…go find out what amory is short a few of those, and you got a hell of a lead on whodunit…
But I’m sure the Mounties are ALL over it already..*snort*
August 6th, 2007 at 3:55 PMUsing
I really wish we could exterminate them! Why stop in detroit??? Can’t we fumigate the entire planet? I am so sick and tired of this slime ooozing out of the “crevices” and causing all the pain and suffering that they do. So… who wants to start working on the invention of “mooslimb” roach hotels™????
August 6th, 2007 at 4:06 PMUsing
Volcanoes are senseless. Lunatics- real ones- are senseless. Hurricanes are senseless. They have no sense. They are insensate.
Those buried by jihad are not “senseless victims” of “mindless violence.” They are killed to make a rational, deliberate point: that they were infidels, and their lives had no value except to be destroyed as a warning to non-Muslims.
It is the refusal to acknowledge this basic truth which increasingly is becoming one of the most relevant facts in world news that is senseless.
August 6th, 2007 at 4:07 PMUsing
JB
August 6th, 2007 at 5:05 PMOn your point about the northern border being a joke, I drive limo part time and frequent Windsor(casino trips, bachelor parties etc.) If you are an American citizen it truley is a pain in the ass. going over not coming back. The Canucks have us beat on security or maybe they just don’t want the evil americans invading their country.
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I’d be more apt to suspect someone of Pakistani origin from Toronto or one of its suburbs, but that is just me.
August 6th, 2007 at 5:52 PMUsing
Er, mayhaps, practice for something a wee further south?
August 6th, 2007 at 5:58 PMUsing
Delay that sucker long enough to include the command in the unfortunate event..
August 6th, 2007 at 6:00 PMDang,
We’re gonna wish this was a secure channel!
Using
Mindy:
At some point “racial profiling” becomes the “description of the suspect”.
August 6th, 2007 at 6:00 PMUsing
Comment by Empress Sofia
Like the way you think, Empress! You may be on to something! Hmmm…. Make them mooselimb motels BIG, like Thunderdome, Lure them in with camels in heat, then loose MasterBlaster on ‘em. After beaten to within an angstrom of their worthless life, toss them into the pig shit factory so that Bartertown can keep the lights burning and the murderous mooselimbs can slowly die in a sea of porcine excrement. Poetry… Sheer poetry!
We could sell the entire THUNDERDOME™ Brand Mooselimb Motel Kit through Home Depot.
August 6th, 2007 at 6:01 PMUsing
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August 6th, 2007 at 6:25 PMUsing
August 6th, 2007 at 6:33 PM
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Dang, blocked it all, almost got the keyboard too..
August 6th, 2007 at 6:34 PMUsing
Please, Emporer, don’t malign the beautiful horses. In the Clintons’ case, it would have to be jackasses.
August 6th, 2007 at 6:36 PMUsing
Dang it! For all my years a’learnin, I never CAN get emperor right!
August 6th, 2007 at 6:37 PMUsing
We had a case here in Oz a while back where a few drug addicted sotremen in the army sold a bunch of LAW’s to (co-incidence Im sure) a bunch of middle eastern drug dealers.
August 6th, 2007 at 7:08 PMApparently a bout 4 of the 6 havent been recovered. The chaps involved were also planning an attack on Australias only nuclear facility.
Drugs and REMF’s dont mix.
Using
Fucking hell. Not that I ever had a great deal of empathy for Ontario, methinks it’s time to mobilize the Mohawks.
(I mean, yeah, Canada has an army, and they do a good job, but for good, old-fashioned atrocities, go to the Rez)
August 6th, 2007 at 7:23 PMUsing
What were Bush and Cheney doing in Canada? I thought they only blew up levies and bridges in this country. Oh, wait, since most of our oil comes from Canada, they’re trying to make the price of oil increase so their rich oil buddies can get richer.
/just auditioning for Kos Kooks
August 6th, 2007 at 7:41 PMUsing
thefrollickingmole
August 6th, 2007 at 7:42 PMsotremen
—I was trying not to bother you. I looked it up in the dictionary and Googled it. It seems not to appear on this side of the globe and must be some Aussie slang. Can you enlighten me?
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Useful Idiot
August 6th, 2007 at 7:46 PMI think you fundamentally misunderstand the role of Bush and Cheney. It’s not about oil. It’s about evil! Whenever anything bad happens in North America, it’s all their fault. It’s really Cheney’s fault, since he pulls the string.
Using
Thanks psychochick, that helps explain the college football BCS. The double meaning for the acronym works too.
August 6th, 2007 at 7:59 PMUsing
You can bet the left will be screaming we created these terrorists as well. God forbid you hold these animals responsible for their actions. Makes me sick, tie these motherfuckers to these mines and enjoy the countdown.
August 6th, 2007 at 8:25 PMUsing
Oooooo…I just noticed the GLOR label. THANKS!!!
Okay, so I’m a little slow on the uptake some days.
August 6th, 2007 at 8:31 PMUsing
PC,
Not JUST North America. Remember the tsunami several years back? That was Bush’s fault for not signing the Kyoto accords. Every bad thing EVERYWHERE is the fault of Bushitlercheneyrovehalliburtonvastrightzionistnaziconspiracy.
August 6th, 2007 at 8:34 PMUsing
About the zaniest thing I EVER heard come out of the moonbat left was their “explanation” for the hurricane that hit Nawlins:
to wit: Bush and Rove managed to hack into the CIA spy satellites, thus being able to manipulate the weather so that it would hit NOLA and drown all the blacks.
Let’s see…Bush can manipulate spy satellites; he can control hurricanes; he’s powerful enough that lack of HIS signature alone causes tsunamis; he masterminded 9-11…and the left calls him stupid! ROFL.
August 6th, 2007 at 8:38 PMUsing
i bet Paul McCartney’s estranged wife planted them to create some media attention…yeah, that’s it…
August 6th, 2007 at 8:48 PMUsing
I never mentioned anything about the hooves being unsplit either, did I?
August 6th, 2007 at 8:53 PMUsing
LC SkyeChild-
Yer welcome
August 6th, 2007 at 8:57 PMUsing
my mind’s eye pictured a centaur
August 6th, 2007 at 8:58 PMUsing
Those mines can be identified as serious heartache devices. Glad those kids and the mom had their shit together. Lest a crew would be looking for the rest of their remains today.
August 6th, 2007 at 9:00 PMUsing
Misha,
RE: Clintons…would you settle for a jackass and a bovine?
August 6th, 2007 at 9:08 PMUsing
I was going to object, but then I realized that I don’t want to insult pigs like that.
August 6th, 2007 at 9:10 PMUsing
REPORT: NEW REPUBLIC’S ‘Baghdad Diarist’ admits exaggerations and falsehoods…
August 6th, 2007 at 9:24 PMUsing
Yer Highness, Her Sof-ly-ness:
I thinks we gots one. They call it MOAB.
Yup, a couple of those and Mullah Omar will be the one asking “How do you ask a muj to be the last muj to die for jihad?”
(Check out the video at the bottom.)
August 6th, 2007 at 9:37 PMUsing
I dunno, that thing doesn’t look like one of ours, it looks like a piece of old soviet hardware, but I wasn’t EOD back in the day either so I could be wrong.
August 6th, 2007 at 9:37 PMUsing
It resembles some of the soviet mines but it doesn’t match any of the ones I could find pictures of.
August 6th, 2007 at 10:16 PMUsing
Sire,
August 6th, 2007 at 10:47 PMI don’t see your better half post very often but she won my heart with #12.
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I didn’t marry her for no good reason, you know
August 6th, 2007 at 10:55 PMUsing
What is killing me is that I know that I have seen that bloody design before, but I can’t put my finger on it.
(Brainstorming, using nothing but subconscious memory here, which means it’s probably way off the mark: Gut instinct says that A), it’s obviously an AT mine. No army with half a brain would lug around something carrying that kind of a wallop to kill infantry. You can carry much more and achieve the same effect with smaller stuff. B) I’d say that it’s an old design. Probably western European, most likely not WaPa, leaning (again on nothing but intuition) towards British. But all of this is just throwing thoughts around trying to dig into that part of my brain where the real information is stored, so I’m quite prepared to be told that I’m full of bullshit, because I most likely am).
August 6th, 2007 at 11:38 PMUsing
I spent some time sniffin’ about and came up with bupkus as well, so I just hit “publish” with what I had. I used the US version cuz’ it was easy enough to find a nice ‘representative sample’ picture. I’d hazard a guess as eastern-bloc too.
August 6th, 2007 at 11:51 PMUsing
Yes and no but, again, I know that I’ve seen it, I just don’t remember it, so I’m probably speaking out my arse here. The thing is, the Russkies liked designs with bigger pressure plates with raised edges and butt-ugly “ridges” on them (if I remember correctly), but it could be a really old design I suppose.
What I do know is that if it is an EastBloc design, then I need to go hang my head in shame for quite some time, because I should remember those nasty shits down to the last detail. Somebody with a better memory than mine please help us out here.
August 6th, 2007 at 11:53 PMUsing
Sure it’s not one of those curling stones? I think that’s what they call them - those things they use in curling. It is Canada, after all. A fiendish thingy is what the Beatles called it (which film was that? Help?). It was supposed to be a curling stone, but was actually a bomb.
August 7th, 2007 at 1:00 AMUsing
MISHA!!! Check this out! Yeah, those other two assholes were going to make fireworks. Or maybe they are friend of these other assholes.
August 7th, 2007 at 1:07 AMUsing
Oh wait! It’s the SAME assholes. Fireworks have been upgraded to pipe bombs. My bad.
August 7th, 2007 at 1:09 AMUsing
Is that normal procedure to destroy the bombs? You can’t disarm them and keep them as evidence? (don’t know much about bombs)
August 7th, 2007 at 1:27 AMUsing
Safer to blow them up. Trust me, disarming explosives is a harrowing experience, even under training conditions.
August 7th, 2007 at 1:29 AMUsing
yeah Kwongdzu, that was Help…in the Tyrol.
Ringo and Paul actually before shooting that scene ran behind that shack and smoked a fatty, came back giggling.
August 7th, 2007 at 1:40 AMUsing
here is a mine in South Lebanon, close but not it i guess
August 7th, 2007 at 2:40 AMUsing
Emperor
I’m pretty sure you’re not full of shit. I’ve got the distinct feeling that I’ve seen this design before and it’s not been in movies or games. I’m rather sure it was during Bundeswehr armor training.
So, this one is either a WaPa AP mine or an old NATO design. The WaPa is thoroughly possible since my battalion at the time was descended from an old Eastern German armor battalion, so it is possible that they kept the old, inert training equipment.
I’ve never consciously seen a British model, so I can neither confirm nor deny this. But the thing definitely doesn’t look like it’s WW2 vintage, a bit too well preserved…
August 7th, 2007 at 2:44 AMUsing
PC,
Explosive ordinance can easily be fitted with anti-tamper devices designed to detonate the device should some luckless Explosive Ordinance Disposal personnel try to disarm it.
August 7th, 2007 at 11:38 AMUsing
It looks a lot like an old Brit AT Mk7 to these tired old eyes but I have been known to be wrong….on many occasions. Of course when I was in the Army a Centurion was a Rank not a Tank.
August 7th, 2007 at 12:30 PMIn any event it certainly hasn’t caused much of a ruckus up here in the GWN. A Goblin with a leadpipe, trigger and elestic band knocking off a Convenience store gets weeks of Press from the “enlightened ones”
but so far……silence.
Using
Just a thought:
Isn’t it possible the Canadians put them there themselves, in an attempt to secure their borders against all of the LibTards fleeing the - EEEvilChimpyMcBusHitlerBurtonMilitaryIndustrialComplex, and just forgot to inform the locals?
- MuscleDaddy
August 7th, 2007 at 1:12 PMUsing
Have done some quick research. The image of the mine would seem to indicate WWII vintage or maybe later date Chinese origin. Also, the cannister is quite corroded. Many moons ago (early 70’s) I recall seeing a landmine ID chart for armies of the world. Have not been able to locate it. Probably from Janes or similar. Maybe someone can do some more digging and post more details. Am really curious how they end up in Canada. Not exactly what your modern immigrant brings in his luggage, is it?
August 7th, 2007 at 5:22 PMUsing
Joe:
That, my friend, is fucking hilarious!
August 7th, 2007 at 8:06 PMUsing
Seagoon…….
August 8th, 2007 at 1:12 AMUsing
I live near Detroit and use to work contract for GM, all my suppliers were in Canada so I was crossing the border 3-4 times a week.
Crossing into Canada was so simple and easy, all I needed was a drivers license. They asked 1-3 questions and I was on my way, sometimes they didn’t even look at my license. I crossed at both Detroit and Port Huron, both were the same way.
Coming back into the US was another matter all together. The first time going over with just my license (this was just 1 year ago) trying to get into the US without my birth certificate involved many tears (involunatry) and promises of never doing that again. They almost held me until someone would bring my birth certificate.
Each time coming back they ask dozens of questions, look you in the eyes while asking and being very serious about the whole thing.
And I am just a little white girl.
I see it as a waste of money to have the canadian boarder crossing guards there.
August 9th, 2007 at 9:36 AMUsing