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Kellanved Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-04-03 12:58 PM
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Explosive Surprise in Old Sofa
BERLIN (Reuters) - A German man bought a second-hand sofa only to discover it was stuffed with three pounds of dynamite, police said on Friday.

The man alerted authorities in the western town of Hagen after finding seven suspicious blocks in the sofa's armrests.

"You can do a great deal of damage with that much TNT. Only 200 grams were used in the Lockerbie bombings," said a police explosives expert in Duesseldorf, referring to the 1988 bombing of a Pan Am airliner over Scotland, in which 270 people were killed.


Police have arrested a 42-year-old man on suspicion of planning robberies with the explosives. They described him as an acquaintance of the sofa's previous owner.


http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=573&ncid=757&e=1&u=/nm/20030804/od_nm/odd_germany_sofa_dc
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Lady Freedom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-04-03 03:27 PM
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1. Will someone tell Bush...
He can not use couches as bombs Please! And we do not send them by US mail! They get lost so easy as this is story shows!
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Loonman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-04-03 03:29 PM
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2. Good thing he never ate any chili
Then sat down for a long night of TV.
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HungryLoser Donating Member (92 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-04-03 03:36 PM
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3. LMAO !!!
Ow..Ow.. it hurts!
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Jackpine Radical Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-04-03 04:01 PM
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5. Interesting turn of phrase there, HL.
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Jackpine Radical Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-04-03 04:00 PM
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4. German inventor
designs super-Whoopee Cushion.
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Mountainman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-04-03 04:29 PM
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6. How to get that couch potato of yours up and moving.
Got a S O that is turning in to a couch potato? Well just stuff your sofa with TNT stand back and light the fuse. If that won't get them moving, well you really didn't need them any way.
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