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

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday February 3, 2015 @09:34AM from the keeping-you-safe-from-duct-tape-and-soda-cans dept.

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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I hope they get an A for this project by sandytaru · 2015-02-03 09:39 · Score: 4, Funny

It's not every art student who gets to say their project brought in a bomb squad! (I'd say that's normally the domain of freshman chemistry students.)

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Re:Well it did ultimately blow up... by penguinoid · 2015-02-03 17:24 · Score: 3, Funny

I heard that one of the suspects had a Canon. Also a news crew on the scene reported that they were taking shots.

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