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

Posted by Soulskill on 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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  1. Two things... by Em+Adespoton · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Thing 1: Didn't anyone think to take a picture of the device and ask if anyone knew what it was?
    1a) Doesn't anyone know what a pinhole camera looks like?

    Thing 2: Where does GSU get off attaching private property to public infrastructure? That's a known no-no. At a minimum, you notify public works first so that things like this don't happen. There was no ass covering done here.

    As a result, the bomb squad, the police, and the university all end up looking foolish.

  2. Re:Common Sense people... common sense by sjames · · Score: 5, Insightful

    A real terrorist would hide the bomb in any of the billions and billions of McDonald's bags littering the streets.

    I notice those never get picked up or blown up for safety.