Crime

See a Robot Blow Up Suspicious Packages at John Boehner’s Office

WEST CHESTER, Ohio (The Blaze/AP) — Briefcases with handwritten signs attached were left at the front door of U.S. House Speaker John Boehner’s Ohio office, bringing out a bomb squad.

Investigators in the Cincinnati suburb of West Chester tell multiple media outlets that the bomb squad blew the cases apart on Sunday and found they contained only papers. No one was hurt.

WCPO-TV captured the bomb squad robot removing the briefcases and exploding them:

WCPO reports the signs were on colored paper and included messages with the words “jobs,“ ”oil“ and ”gas.” A West Chester officer on patrol first noticed the briefcases outside the Republican congressman’s office late Sunday morning.

Boehner spokeswoman Brittany Bramell said that investigators’ “vigilance and efforts” were appreciated.

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Information from: WCPO-TV, http://www.wcpo.com

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  • voicecheck1
    Posted on August 15, 2011 at 12:38pm

    What about biological warfare ^ how could they blew them up without knowing ? ^

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    • manjodad
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 4:10pm

      My very thoughts. Next time they will load up the briefcases with some powdered biological that will be effectively dispersed when they blow up the briefcase. Is this the kind of smart stuff we should expect from our law enforcement officers.

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    • MartyTr
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 4:55pm

      Or getting fingerprints. He needs better security.

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    • AyaTolla U
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 5:38pm

      You’ve given those hatemongers the idea.

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    • Bonecrusher
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 6:01pm

      I can’t speak for this robot but I retired as the Bomb Squad Commander of my department and our robots have “detectors” attached that alert in the presence of anything we can’t see. There are many other tools and methods we don’t reveal for obvious reasons. Anyone wanting to deliver a bio/chem agent would use a different method if they had any idea what they were doing. We were also trained as Haz Mat Techs and if there had been a spill or release we would have made sure we could have contained it before we took the shot. All things are considered (or should be) before any action is taken. With no lives at stake, the bomb squad can take all the time they need. Fingerprints and other trace eveidence would be on the recovered debris and would be checked for any suspitious substance before clearing the scene. Plain bleach sprayed on the affected area would take care of 99% of the problems they would face. Whoever placed them there hopefully will spend a large part of their future in prison. If the idiots that did these things knew how much it cost the tax payers to have the bomb squad “safe” an area like this, they would realize it’s not worth it. When I was young morons would have just wrote their message on the windows in soap. Like this, the message is lost in the delivery. No one will remember or care what the messages said, only that the bomb squad had to show up. It’s a shame we have the same caliber of people to worry about here as our soldiers do in Iraq and Afg

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    • sovereignangel
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 6:25pm

      I agree with manjodad who Posted on August 15, 2011 at 4:10pm
      …’Next time they will load up the briefcases with some powdered biological that will be effectively dispersed when they blow up the briefcase.

      They will learn the first time it haappens, because they are too ‘Programmed’ to think independently of their ‘Hive Mind’ to see past the ‘Fun’ of blowing things up!

      Thet won’t listen to common sense, either!

      I once wrote up a warning about a simple common household / office supply / scientific instrument that could be used to cause billions of dollars in damages and losses and possibly kill or displace tens of thousands of people…

      but after reading it over for spelling, grammer and punctuation… I decided that it would probably get me put on some loony ‘watch list’ or ‘shot as a threat to national security’…

      the point is… I thought about what I had figured out and decided that even if the ‘Good Guys’ got a whiff of it, they’d surely find a way to use it against the people somehow!

      Or worse, real terrorists might get some hairburnt scheme and ‘Poof Out’ in some public park or movie house.

      Amazingly, all it took was a ‘second look’ to discover my ‘Blind-Sidedness‘ before I ’Poofed Out’!

      Why can‘t those in government simply take a realistic second look at the crap they’re doing?

      It‘s wasn’t that difficult for ME to see!

      Or is it that they’re just in it for the Money?

      This is just like outing the Seals

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    • WeDontNeedNoStinkingBadges
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 7:39pm

      That’s government … just blow stuff up.

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    • GRusling
      Posted on August 16, 2011 at 10:06am

      Suspected bombs go into a sealed containment chamber, then they’re exploded. The exhaust from that chamber is filtered. The chance of any biological agent surviving the heat of the blast is minimal, if it exists at all…

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  • maryann72961
    Posted on August 15, 2011 at 12:29pm

    Hey Thomasdaddy, I just typed in http://www.cnn.com, and didn’t see anything on the web. Where is it listed, I would like to read it if possible

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    • SheriS
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 1:49pm

      Go up to the article and there is a connection in the story that will take you to the aricle as published!

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    • MONICNE
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 2:22pm

      Go to Google and key in, “Blow,“ ”Package,“ ”Explode,“ and ”Boehner”

      Ha Ha LOL

      TEA

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    • Anne
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 3:52pm

      I think that Thomasdaddy has had too much Kool aid. He doesn’t even know where he is finding his BS. (Bad stuff) I feel bad for Thomas.

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    • kahtik
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 4:09pm

      In reply to Sheris:

      The link to follow is the station link at http://www.wcpo.com. There you find “a story”, or as we call it in the broadcasting world, “a teaser”. It’s a much shorter version of the original story produced for the five, 10 or 11 o’clock segments. Shorter versions are generally the stories edited down to run at other smaller watched times. The version the Blaze put on was the featured original story.

      Maryann72961, that’s the only difference between the two. One is the full story and the other is the shorter version on the website.

      I wish more people on BOTH sides of the fence would quit jumping the gun on everything. That’s the reason I finally walked away from both radio and TV after 25 years, I was getting tired of the Liberals and Conservatives fighting each other. Most of the media IS Liberal based, but when it comes to who has the stronger and reliable audience, it’s 9 times out of 10, the Conservative crowd. That’s why those station due well, and the Liberals can’t get it through their head, that not everyone believes in what they believe in.

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    • MartyTr
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 4:57pm

      Like CNN is going to cover this, wake up.

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  • Sleazy Hippo
    Posted on August 15, 2011 at 12:27pm

    Representative Boehner benefits from the “fear aspect,” because being a bomb target means you are important or noteworthy.

    Remember how Eric Cantor claimed his window had been shot out? It was later proven totally false, but he gained publicity and gravitas.

    Boehner needs some noteworthiness.

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    • hechafteth
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 12:58pm

      @SLEAZY

      Sorry pal, this hyper-cautionary move by law enforcement isn’t comparable to the voices in your head or the droves of your imaginary friends with picket signs descending on the front lawns of honest hardworking Americans. Your tripe isn’t even worth a Bova award…

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    • WeDontNeedNoStinkingBadges
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 7:46pm

      But, don’t forget, you‘ve got to get the right bot otherwise it’ll just blow up it’s motivator or other stuff.

      OWEN: “What I really need is a droid that understands the binary language of moisture vaporators.”
      THREEPIO: “Vaporators! Sir, my first job was programming binary load lifters, very similar to your vaporators. You could say …”
      OWEN: “Do you speak Bocce?”
      THREEPIO: “Of course I can, sir. It’s like a second language for me … I’m as fluent in Bocce …”
      OWEN: “All right shut up! (turns to the Jawa) I’ll take this one.”

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  • Sleazy Hippo
    Posted on August 15, 2011 at 12:26pm

    In these days, where living and coping with constant Fear is so important, it is best to let the federally-funded police bomb squads demonstrate their capabilities every now and then.

    In the old days they would have placed the cases in an x-ray, or have explosive meters sniff them. Nowadays its safer to blow them up if you have a robot.

    If those cases had been full of dynamite, exploding them might have been the wrong thing to do!

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    • MONICNE
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 1:53pm

      If there had been a big Boehner Blow-Out it would have caused us to pay extra security for Congress persons. (They actually tried that after Gabrielle was shot in public earlier this year).

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    • azrock4ever
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 2:46pm

      When did “Fear” qualify as a word with a capital letter?

      Is it better for hype?

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    • troy106
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 3:41pm

      While not giving you any information to improve your IQ, the fact that you would assume that X-ray and sniffers were not used speaks volumes, as to why disrupters are used… in a word, safety! Quit while you can still see over the hole you are digging.

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  • ezeewhiz
    Posted on August 15, 2011 at 12:23pm

    If this was done to Pelosi it would be all over the good old boy news networks!!

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  • ModerationIsBest
    Posted on August 15, 2011 at 12:21pm

    So they put a briefcase with the word “jobs” in front of the speaker of the houses’s office, which had to come and be blown up by a bomb squad which meant closing down surrounding businesses which hurt………say it with me folks “JOBS!”

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  • Tickdog
    Posted on August 15, 2011 at 12:11pm

    ok. so.. find the people that left the brief cases on the door step and kill them.. seems simple enough to me.

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  • V-MAN MACE
    Posted on August 15, 2011 at 12:03pm

    Hey robot, his ENTIRE HOUSE is a suspicious package.

    Eliminate!

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    • Bobmouse55
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 1:05pm

      I’ll bet you are one of those people calling for moderating the hate speech after the Gabby Gilbert shooting, aren’t you.

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    • BSdetector
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 1:50pm

      Yup, and while he’s at it he wants to “moderate” your gun rights too.

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    • URKiddinMee
      Posted on August 16, 2011 at 3:46pm

      Did your mother have any spawn who lived?

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  • Alvin691
    Posted on August 15, 2011 at 11:46am

    Suspicious Packages – The proposed name Greg Gutfeld came up with for the Ground Zero Mosque/Gay Bar

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    • Clean House
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 12:00pm

      A Package that small could have held what he $aved the Taxpayers in his Debt Deal.

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  • KusoJiJi
    Posted on August 15, 2011 at 11:42am

    the lamestream media will likely deem this un-newsworthy.

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    • thomasdaddy
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 12:05pm

      You people just don’t want to see the truth! This has bee reported by every major news source! You have to really work hard at being that ignorant of the facts!

      thomasdaddy  
    • Stoic one
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 1:29pm

      THOMASDADDY
      Conservatives tend not to get excited, no gnashing of teeth, no crying about the extremists, just a quite thanks to law enforcement.

      THEREFORE the news blip on the radio is less than five seconds. Very easy to miss. I live in the area; it is the ONLY reason “the BOMB” registered in my tiny, itsy bitsy brain.

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    • proudnot2bliberal
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 1:56pm

      RE: Thomasdaddy

      Now Ill type very slowly so your small LIEberal mind can follow…..Yup typical LIEberal I searched the MSN & CNN web site& neither had the story listed in their top 20 stories. I’m sure you could “find it” Buried some place if you looked. BUT Those pesky FACTS & TRUTHS keep getting in the way of the mental midgets LIEberals like yourself.

      again if this happened at palosi or reids office it’d be break wall to wall coverage just like last week’s Wisconsin’s recall DEFEAT for the union thugs, despite spending $35 MILLION for recall effort the republicans held on & may even gain more seats with this week’s upcoming recall of a couple of dems. AGAIN you might be able to find something in the biased partisan left wing lamesteram media but if it were the other way around it would again have been wall to wall coverage

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  • heyjms
    Posted on August 15, 2011 at 11:41am

    Must be those hateful tea party members ;)

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  • vennoye
    Posted on August 15, 2011 at 11:37am

    Just glad there was nothing explosive in them!

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  • BenInNY
    Posted on August 15, 2011 at 11:28am

    Reporter was having a tough time: “appreciate their villagence”

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  • EqualJustice
    Posted on August 15, 2011 at 11:25am

    I’m SURE they video surveillance of this! I never heard a word about it on the news? Imagine if this had been Nancy Pelosi’s office? Let’s see how AGGRESSIVE they are at investigating this one.

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    • thomasdaddy
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 12:03pm

      This has been reported by every major news source! I posted, well attempted to post 7 links to the story from the MSM, but I guess blaze filters certain news sources! I guess it’s their way of sheltering you from the truth!

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    • RoBoTech
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 1:54pm

      whosurdady
      The only one I see sheltered around here is YOU.
      When your moooommmy said you were special, she lied to you, son.
      Your are not.
      Only another LasLaLand idiot.

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  • Equality_7-2521
    Posted on August 15, 2011 at 11:24am

    Let’s see . . . SEIU was just there trying to kick in the door and intimidate the Speaker. Hmmmm, Jobs, Oil and Gas . . . must be the Tea Party, right?

    When are we going to surround the SEIU “headquarters”? My wife is in downtown Cinci all of the time, and has to go by the SEIU’s office, and she says that it is always teaming with thugs.

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  • capecodsully
    Posted on August 15, 2011 at 11:21am

    Couldn’t Debbie Wasserman Schultz do that job for less money? That robot must go for a hefty price and it could get damaged around explosives.

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  • Mr. Oshawott
    Posted on August 15, 2011 at 11:19am

    Thank goodness that the Bomb Squad got to those suitcases before John Boehner did. Who knows whether those suitcases were actually real bombs or simply a prank gone bad?

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    • Anonymous T. Irrelevant
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 11:43am

      It was just a misunderstanding. They were resumes and gas and oil receipts for the Dominos next door. Now those drivers won‘t get reimbursed and they won’t be able to hire new drivers.
      Darn those misunderstandings.

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    • cja23
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 4:29pm

      Gee, I wonder whether the suit cases were placed there by some of those peaceful, non-violent, union thugs?

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  • lynnissmart
    Posted on August 15, 2011 at 11:12am

    George Soros and his cronies…….fat old and disgusting man.

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  • stage9
    Posted on August 15, 2011 at 11:12am

    “We’re relieved it was just a misunderstanding”????

    HUH?????

    Misunderstanding? What? Someone placed the exploding briefcases at Boehner’s office accidentally? Whoops! Wrong office? It was meant for a different Boehner.

    Some of the comments that come out of the media and Washington is so moronic. Reminds me of the canned response they’re all using now — “that’s unfortunate”. Man just killed 15 people….”that’s unfortunate”. A chopper is shot down in Pakistan….”that’s unfortunate”.

    Unfortunate? No, not “unfortunate”…evil. It was evil! Good grief, just call it what it is already!

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    • hypocrite
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 7:18pm

      Did you read the article? There was no explosives in the breif cases. Next time make an effort to get the facts before you make up your mind about something.

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    • stage9
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 10:19pm

      Um, actually what the article says is:

      “the bomb squad blew the cases apart.”

      The inference was that there were bomb components IN the briefcases.

      The next time you make a comment to my posts make sure you know what you’re talking about hack.

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    • hypocrite
      Posted on August 17, 2011 at 11:06pm

      Stage9 the atrticle clearly says “the breif cases contained only papers” Next time before you make a comment on my comment make sure you know what you’re talking about , you hack.

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  • UBETHECHANGE
    Posted on August 15, 2011 at 11:11am

    The left loons are just taking orders from their thug in chief who recently said I’m frustrated, your frustrated and you need take your frustration to your Reps. Threats and suspicious packages are not what democracy looks like you commie tools. Slogans and key words are all they spew with no substance and no logical thinking. Useful idiots!

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  • sWampy
    Posted on August 15, 2011 at 11:05am

    Oh, good god, 15 years back, was working for a phone company that had 10 cent long distance when everyone else was 25 cents or more, so we had a bunch of fake dime rolls made and sent them our to a bunch of our customers. All our members of congress Washington and home offices were on the list, so they all got them, several were deemed suspicious and detonated. We were contacted by the government and asked to pay for their incompetence.

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  • Carol Ingian
    Posted on August 15, 2011 at 11:03am

    I am glad no one was hurt, and I hope they have some video evidence so they can find who did this.

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    • RepubliCorp
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 12:13pm

      what if it was a suitcase nuke? West Chester missing…….

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  • mossbrain
    Posted on August 15, 2011 at 11:01am

    In my estimation it was probably some remote control fart machines in those brief cases.

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  • Vickie Dhaene
    Posted on August 15, 2011 at 10:55am

    Didn’t they just blow up the evidence as in Finger prints?

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    • pscully17
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 11:01am

      I know a few suspicious packages are hiding in thew hite house… 24 czars, and a guy posing as the president.

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 11:13am

      No, actually from what I understand that the oils making up the fingerprints will survive most kinds of blasts and detonations even from high grade explosives; so there is a fair chance they will have survived this manner, assuming any prints are actually present in the first place…it seems to depend on how careful the person preparing this message has been.

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  • AlansTigg
    Posted on August 15, 2011 at 10:51am

    they were pretty suspicious looking…I’d blow em up

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    • Clean House
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 12:45pm

      Good Thing THE PAYOFF Package for selling out on the Debt Deal arrived the day before!

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