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Kaimuki neighborhood evacuated after resident finds possible pipe bomb
Posted: Mar 11, 2012 6:01 PM PDT Updated: Mar 11, 2012 8:44 PM PDT
By Ben Gutierrez
KAIMUKI (HawaiiNewsNow) - Honolulu Police have opened a criminal investigation after a possible pipe bomb was found at a residence in a quiet Kaimuki neighborhood.
Stan Kim lives on the upper floor of a home at 714 7th Avenue, and discovered the device at about 10 a.m. Sunday. "I went downstairs to use the bathroom and I walk in the driveway and I see a tattered bag and the pipe bomb."
Kim took a quick look, and what he saw was enough to alert other residents and his neighbors. "I didn't look really that close," he said. "I just got out of there and informed the neighbors to get out, all the roommates that live downstairs, and that's it, man."
Police were called, and shortly afterward, yellow tape went up on 7th Avenue.
http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/17133018/kaimuki-neighborhood-evacuated-after-resident-finds-possible-pipe-bomb
By Ben Gutierrez
KAIMUKI (HawaiiNewsNow) - Honolulu Police have opened a criminal investigation after a possible pipe bomb was found at a residence in a quiet Kaimuki neighborhood.
Stan Kim lives on the upper floor of a home at 714 7th Avenue, and discovered the device at about 10 a.m. Sunday. "I went downstairs to use the bathroom and I walk in the driveway and I see a tattered bag and the pipe bomb."
Kim took a quick look, and what he saw was enough to alert other residents and his neighbors. "I didn't look really that close," he said. "I just got out of there and informed the neighbors to get out, all the roommates that live downstairs, and that's it, man."
Police were called, and shortly afterward, yellow tape went up on 7th Avenue.
http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/17133018/kaimuki-neighborhood-evacuated-after-resident-finds-possible-pipe-bomb
My family home is right at the intersection, I can confirm that there used to be some chronic type people living there...
people - my sister called my father and stepmother while we were out at lunch today in Los Angeles and said there was a bomb threat. We were worried it might have been my cousin's ex-boyfriend who just got probation out of Halawa, but now I'm thinking it's related to the chronics who used to live in that house.
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...that it was placed by the gas line, it took an hour and a half for the bomb squad to arrive, the gas company worker needed some convincing to turn the gas line off, and they destroyed part of it in place. It definitely was a pipe bomb, but it was ineffective. 
