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CHIMO

(9,223 posts)
Thu Jan 16, 2014, 08:00 PM Jan 2014

Skylar Murphy didn't plan to use pipe bomb on plane, RCMP say

Source: CBC News

The RCMP believed an Edmonton-area teen’s story that he had no plans to blow up a plane with a pipe bomb he said he unintentionally carried through airport security, because he had a “shocked reaction” when security screeners found the device, according to court transcripts obtained by CBC News.

The RCMP based this belief on surveillance video from the encounter at Edmonton International Airport on Sept. 20 between then 18-year-old Skylar Murphy and security personnel.



Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/skylar-murphy-didn-t-plan-to-use-pipe-bomb-on-plane-rcmp-say-1.2499162

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Skylar Murphy didn't plan to use pipe bomb on plane, RCMP say (Original Post) CHIMO Jan 2014 OP
I was really surprised one time when they found a can of water in my bag Skittles Jan 2014 #1
Truly the Most Insane Part of the Story: Quasimodem Jan 2014 #7
Because his name is Skylar not Achmed, sillies. CBGLuthier Jan 2014 #2
+1 GeorgeGist Jan 2014 #3
I'd buy into that. CFLDem Jan 2014 #4
exactly Blue_Tires Jan 2014 #6
And he was convicted later and some officers were suspended per link at link: freshwest Jan 2014 #5

Skittles

(152,966 posts)
1. I was really surprised one time when they found a can of water in my bag
Thu Jan 16, 2014, 08:02 PM
Jan 2014

I really did not know it was in there

A gun or a pipe bomb? What is wrong with these fucking people?

Quasimodem

(441 posts)
7. Truly the Most Insane Part of the Story:
Thu Jan 16, 2014, 11:48 PM
Jan 2014

''CBC News learned, the screening guard who seized the pipe bomb from Murphy tried to give it back to him, even though the steel pipe bomb had a fuse attached to it.''

Effing unbelievable!

freshwest

(53,661 posts)
5. And he was convicted later and some officers were suspended per link at link:
Thu Jan 16, 2014, 08:39 PM
Jan 2014
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/pipe-bomb-handed-back-to-passenger-skylar-murphy-by-airport-guard-1.2497650

It's still bullshit to let people carry a pipe with a fuse and gunpowder in it and claim he 'just forgot' about it in his bag at the airport.

Playing clueless and the officers playing along with it. Not many would have gotten away with this.

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