Upstream | March 24, 2011 | 10 comments

Bomb Spends Three Weeks in Lost-and-Found

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Did anyone lose a bomb in Detroit? Because there's one in the lost-and-found of a federal office building there. Or there was, for three weeks, until security guards decided to scan it and realized what they had.

The bomb was inside a package left outside the building, and picked up by a nonunion contracted security guard, who put it in the lost and found. And, as you might imagine, the Government Employees Local is having a field day:

[President of the American Federation of Government Employees Local 918 David] Wright called the mishap a "contracting mess," complaining that the use of private contractors impedes the security guard command structure.

"I cannot order one of these kinds of guards to do anything," he said.

The way we see it, though, this patriotic contract employee was just trying to preserve the sacred right to private property, and save that bomb for its rightful owner—while big government union thugs like David Wright just want to confiscate your bombs. Sick!

http://gawker.com/#!5785196/bomb-spends-three-weeks-in-lost+and+found
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10 comments // Bomb Spends Three Weeks in Lost-and-Found

  • Warrenpeace21
  • royulery
  • Milieu
    • 0
      Milieu  

    • Well, I say, If that Bomb had any Gumption,Sense of Purpose,Pride or Self Respect it would have gotten up and delivered itself to it's intended target.

      Lazy, stinkin' bomb. NO, sense of pride in job.

      Must be one of them lazy immigrant bombs that's here to live on the largesse of the Rich people in America.

    • 1 year ago
  • gepma44
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      gepma44  

    • timothy mcveigh did not wear a towel on his head and murmer religious chants he was that guy standing in line at walmart RIGHT NEXT to you buying some gum and a field hunter magazine..Terrorism against the U S does not come in a color or a religion. It is a mind set...which means . (fill in answer you feel most comfortable with, whether you believe it or not.)

    • 1 year ago
  • gepma44
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      gepma44  

    • THIS IS NOT ABOUT UNIONS. This testifies to the fact that terrorism can not and will not be stopped. especially homegrown terrorism. Which is what this is....be afraid... be very afraid...

    • 1 year ago
  • Paratus
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      Paratus  

    • Mistakes get made regardless of who the employer is. Any suggestion that this is a black mark on private firms and we would be so much safer with government employees is wrong. Trying to turn this into a political statement that we would be better off with government guards vs private guards is sick. This is a training issue and a scathing indictment of the lack of supervision and employee quality. Not only that it is a falling down of Homeland Security and their oversight which is a good reason not to have more Homeland Security.

    • 1 year ago
  • chew_chew
  • cmc101
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      cmc101  

    • Wanted Dead and /or Alive rightful property owner Please inform Our Rent-A-cop..

      The way we see it, though, this patriotic contract employee was just trying to preserve the sacred right to private property, and save that bomb for its rightful owner—while big government union thugs like David Wright just want to confiscate your bombs. Sick!

    • 1 year ago
  • twinite
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      twinite  

    • Wow, some stories simply leave me speechless, except to say this thread is a GREAT place to promote education, and unions of course .

    • 1 year ago
  • bambuu
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