Police: Explosive found planted on car at Auburn gas station
AUBURN, Wash. -- The Federal Way Bomb Squad defused an improvised explosive device found inside the fuel hatch of a car on Wednesday afternoon.
Police said a woman found a suspicious device inside the fuel hatch of her car when she stopped at the Fred Meyer gas station at 801 Auburn Way N. around 5 p.m.
She contacted police, who called the bomb squad to the scene. Investigators transported the device to a safe area where they neutralized it.
"Test of the device showed that the device was actually an IED," Auburn police said.
Police do not believe this was a random act.
No other details surrounding the incident were immediately available, and the investigation is ongoing.
Police said a woman found a suspicious device inside the fuel hatch of her car when she stopped at the Fred Meyer gas station at 801 Auburn Way N. around 5 p.m.
She contacted police, who called the bomb squad to the scene. Investigators transported the device to a safe area where they neutralized it.
"Test of the device showed that the device was actually an IED," Auburn police said.
Police do not believe this was a random act.
No other details surrounding the incident were immediately available, and the investigation is ongoing.
Sorry, this story has more holes than Swiss cheese. I tend to be skeptical these days seeing how our well trained bomb squads seem to detonate more flashlights and backpacks than actual bombs.
I was sitting across the street at the Metro shelter, watching as this incident unfolded. Scary stuff!
I was there when they were getting ready to diffuse the IED, it was soo scary. But a least the woman and her child were unharmed and they catch the guy soon. The rumor is that was her ex husband that put it in her gas tank hatch.
Originally, I thought, "How big a boom could it make, if was in the fuel compartment?", and then I had the slap-myself-on-the-forehead moment, realizing that even a tiny bomb could ignite gasoline. But, unless it had a remote switch or timer (not mentioned in the article), what did the "bomber" think (s)he was going to accomplish?
She did the right thing...back away and call the cops.
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What gets me is the (usually) women who set the nozzle and get back in their car and wait for the pump to stop, then jump out and grab the nozzle without thinking to discharge the static electricity they built up sliding in and out of the car. That spark could ignite the fumes coming out of the filler neck and it might as well be a bomb.
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But you can't tell 'em 'cause it "will never happen to ME!"
Hmmm...military ex?
I went there when this was happening. Didn't know what was going on. Fire trucks, police, news choppers. Enought to make me just drive past and not stop.
Who in the ef would want to blow up a Geo Metro?
 @I Like Meat Well, those cars were the bomb back in the day..  *cough* .. pun very much intended.Â
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Maybe somebody was trying to help this person with their car choice. Messed up either way!
 @Rsills82  @I Like Meat I know this is a different car...but your "bomb car" reminded me of this....only 14 seconds.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dT0J0rcJTLo
 @Controlled-Insanity  @I Like Meat Haha... sounds about right,
Wow.
There seems to be an unhappy customer in her past. I've thought about the possible need for one of those mirrors on a stick myself (used to look under cars for bombs). I TRY not to step on toes anymore if I can help it.
Is she going through a divorce?
Cars driving around as bombs is a scary thought.