Art Project Causes Atlanta Police To Close Highway and Call Bomb Squad

McGruber writes: Yesterday, a ridiculously huge commotion and massive traffic jam occurred when Atlanta Police closed the downtown connector (Interstates 75 & 85) and called out the bomb squad to detonate a "suspicious device" taped to a bridge. Today, Georgia State University officials announced that the suspicious device was a student camera, "one of 18 used by students in an art project and deployed at various locations in the city." PetaPixel has additional information about Solargraphy, the style of pinhole photography apparently being done by the Georgia students.

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Re:Why is blowing up everything helpful?

[Dutch Gun]

Tell me if you can determine for sure that this isn't a bomb. Because that sure doesn't look like a camera to me. That looks more like an IED than a camera.

Also, I'm glad to hear you're volunteering to go up to suspected bombs, peel them open, and rattle them around a bit to see if they're dangerous or not. No? It's pretty easy to say that you're 100% sure it's not a bomb when it's not your life on the line.

IED ATTACKS IN THE U.S.
OCT 2012 – 38.
NOV 2012 – 21.
DEC 2012 – 28.
JAN 2013 – 31.
FEB 2013 – 23.
MAR 2013 – 31.

Sometimes they do actually explode - seems about one a day, in fact. Why risk a life when it's simpler just to detonate something that looks so suspicious? Get off your fucking high horse.