# A pipe bomb in our neighborhood - WTF? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 30, 2010, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pipe-bomb-in-our-neighborhood-wtf/534277 "2010-03-30T00:02:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2010, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pipe-bomb-in-our-neighborhood-wtf/534277/1 "2010-03-30T00:02:41Z")
A loud boom sent us and our neighbors into the street to see what the fuck was happening. It was loud enough to rattle windows and realign the wall hangings. Today [we find out](http://www.katu.com/news/89441702.html) that a “large pipe bomb” detonated right across the bridge from where we live and gouged a sizable crater in the park over there. ::spit take:: Whuk? I mean. . .what the fuck? In Portland, home of the friendly, city of hugs? ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2010, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pipe-bomb-in-our-neighborhood-wtf/534277/2 "2010-03-30T00:03:58Z")
Some people don’t like hugs. ---
**Author:** ![JSexton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@JSexton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JSexton)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2010, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pipe-bomb-in-our-neighborhood-wtf/534277/3 "2010-03-30T00:07:19Z")
There was a series of pipebombs attached to cars in Salem two years ago, plus the bomb in Woodburn at a bank last year that killed two officers. I love my state, but it’s no safer here than anywhere else anymore. ---
**Author:** ![Canadjun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/76d3ee/32.png) [@Canadjun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Canadjun)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2010, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pipe-bomb-in-our-neighborhood-wtf/534277/4 "2010-03-30T00:43:46Z")
Interesting statement in that news article > [@KATU.com](#): > > Manufacturing a PVC pipe bomb is a felony You mean manufacturing them out of anything else is OK?😕 ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2010, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pipe-bomb-in-our-neighborhood-wtf/534277/5 "2010-03-30T00:51:02Z")
> [@Canadjun](#): > > Interesting statement in that news article > You mean manufacturing them out of anything else is OK?😕 The Metal Pipe-Bomb Makers’ Guild has some serious pull at Court. ---
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2010, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pipe-bomb-in-our-neighborhood-wtf/534277/6 "2010-03-30T01:59:49Z")
Wasn’t there some sort of Anarchist flashmob in Portland today? I thought I read something about it. ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2010, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pipe-bomb-in-our-neighborhood-wtf/534277/7 "2010-03-30T02:05:03Z")
> [@Lamar\_Mundane](#): > > Wasn’t there some sort of Anarchist flashmob in Portland today? I thought I read something about it. [Yes](http://www.kgw.com/video/featured-videos/Anti-police-protesters-downtown-Portland-89475487.html). They were protesting two recent police shootings. Rev. Jesse Jackson was in town today as well, but not part of this crowd. \ The bomb was the second in as many weeks. Perhaps they were mere “tests” for something down the road that will not take place in a remote area of a park. \ ---
**Author:** ![Runs\_With\_Scissors](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/278dde/32.png) [@Runs\_With\_Scissors](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Runs_With_Scissors)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2010, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pipe-bomb-in-our-neighborhood-wtf/534277/8 "2010-03-30T04:47:10Z")
I live about five miles to the east…and it shook my house. When I found out how far away it was, I couldn’t believe it. I had _headphones_ on and I thought it was at most one street over. I don’t have much faith in the PD’s investigation, but I hope whoever set it off is caught. They ain’t plain’ around. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2010, 10:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pipe-bomb-in-our-neighborhood-wtf/534277/9 "2010-03-30T10:06:53Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > Some people don’t like hugs. Oh, _very_ nice! \ ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2010, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pipe-bomb-in-our-neighborhood-wtf/534277/10 "2010-03-30T14:40:59Z")
Well, the Public Library Association was in town… ---
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2010, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pipe-bomb-in-our-neighborhood-wtf/534277/11 "2010-03-30T15:02:41Z")
> [@Zsofia](#): > > Well, the Public Library Association was in town… Somebody might have misread that as the PLO. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2010, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pipe-bomb-in-our-neighborhood-wtf/534277/12 "2010-03-30T15:22:08Z")
Hell, I’d rather get on the PLO’s bad side than get between the PLA and a sale at Chico’s, if you know what I mean. ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2010, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pipe-bomb-in-our-neighborhood-wtf/534277/13 "2010-03-30T15:54:34Z")
> [@Zsofia](#): > > Hell, I’d rather get on the PLO’s bad side than get between the PLA and a sale at Chico’s, if you know what I mean. Don’t get the PLA angry. They’ll throw the books at you. ---
**Author:** ![maladroit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f475e1/32.png) [@maladroit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maladroit)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2010, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pipe-bomb-in-our-neighborhood-wtf/534277/14 "2010-03-30T18:15:04Z")
I read the linked article, loved the poll at the end, but this is what really interested me: [twitter/google triangulation map](http://http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&ll=45.52451,-122.641926&spn=0.032833,0.077162&z=14&msid=105810967145978747791.000482e8231e3af9d5624).