# Makes my blood run cold. Bomb in a Teddy Bear. Newslink.

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**Created:** [December 2, 2013, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/makes-my-blood-run-cold-bomb-in-a-teddy-bear-newslink/675317 "2013-12-02T23:04:14Z")\
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**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:** [December 2, 2013, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/makes-my-blood-run-cold-bomb-in-a-teddy-bear-newslink/675317/1 "2013-12-02T23:04:14Z")

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The mind of it’s maker is an inferno.

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> LATTIMORE, N.C. – Authorities in a small North Carolina community are trying to determine who planted an explosive device concealed inside a teddy bear.
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> Cleveland County Sheriff Alan Norman says a newspaper carrier saw the teddy bear Thursday in the middle of a road near Lattimore, a tiny rural town about 50 miles west of Charlotte.

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> **[Teddy bear left on roadside had crude bomb device in it - UPI.com](https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2013/11/23/Bomb-found-in-teddy-bear-left-on-roadside/UPI-81411385240173/)**
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> A North Carolina man delivering newspapers found a teddy bear on the roadside that had the makings of a crude gasoline bomb inside it, officials said.

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> t has since been dismantled and sent to the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives for closer examination.
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> Jessica Burge, the mother of a preschool-aged son, who lives in the area told WSOC-TV, Charlotte, she’s at a loss as to why someone would put a bomb in a children’s toy.
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> “I’m just trying to figure out why would you put a bomb in a teddy bear in the first place. If anybody would have picked it up it would have been a child,” Burge said.

Oooh.

Nice crop o monsters you got growin’ there, neighbor.

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**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2013, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/makes-my-blood-run-cold-bomb-in-a-teddy-bear-newslink/675317/2 "2013-12-02T23:09:05Z")

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> The man picked up the bear, and a small glass container with liquid inside and wires protruding from it fell out. The man took the device home with him and later called 911 after it began emitting smoke.

:eek:

Good call, buddy. Better late than never, I guess…