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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Mon Jun 2, 2014, 12:29 PM Jun 2014

Mannequin with Obama mask found hanging on bridge over I-70

Source: Kansas City Star

BY GLENN E. RICE
The Kansas City Star

Authorities shut a stretch of Interstate 70 between Grain Valley and Oak Grove for several minutes early Monday while the Jackson County Sheriff’s office removed a fully-clothed mannequin wearing a mask of President Barack Obama left hanging from a bridge overpass.

The incident was reported about 5:30 a.m. at the bridge on Lefholz Road. While removing the item from the overpass, deputies noticed what they believed to be an explosive device attached to the mannequin.

The Independence police bomb unit was summoned, and all lanes of Interstate 70 were shut down as a precaution while deputies examined the item, said Sgt. Ronda Montgomery, spokeswoman for the sheriff’s office.

No explosives were found. The sheriff’s office is investigating who placed the mannequin on the bridge. It is not known how long it had been there.

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Read more: http://www.kansascity.com/2014/06/02/5061879/mannequin-wearing-obama-mask-found.html

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George II

(67,782 posts)
4. Let's hope there was a surveillance camera in the area....
Mon Jun 2, 2014, 12:49 PM
Jun 2014

..the Secret Service doesn't take things like this lightly.

 

heaven05

(18,124 posts)
5. typical
Mon Jun 2, 2014, 12:55 PM
Jun 2014

RW, racist acting out in this day and age. We want our country back! From that brown man in our white house. waaaa!!!!!!

geretogo

(1,281 posts)
7. This is the result of over twenty years of extreme right wing hate and lying talk radio intense
Mon Jun 2, 2014, 01:00 PM
Jun 2014

propaganda .

lark

(23,065 posts)
10. Hope this sicko is found and does hard time.
Mon Jun 2, 2014, 01:21 PM
Jun 2014

How despicable, lynching a black man in effigy in this day and time - totally revolting and stupid as well

Sunlei

(22,651 posts)
11. The Presidents Mother is from Kansas. FBI needs to find a fingerprint/DNA & lock those morons away.
Mon Jun 2, 2014, 01:31 PM
Jun 2014

There's probably plenty of evidence all over that mannequin.

LuckyLib

(6,817 posts)
13. We have fundie right wing relatives in KC and consider them the extreme fringe of the family. Nuts.
Mon Jun 2, 2014, 09:05 PM
Jun 2014

Of course, they consider us the west coast liberal crazy people with no morals, so we're even!

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