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Pittsburgh Police Bomb Squad

Thursday, January 31, 2013

Bomb Squad Called To Regent Square Thursday Morning

A backpack with the words "time bomb" printed on one of the straps was found on an apartment building stoop on Forbes Avenue—but no explosives were found inside.

Pittsburgh police bomb squad responded to Regent Square this morning after a backpack with the words "time bomb" printed on one of the straps was found at an apartment entrance at the corner building on Forbes Avenue at South Braddock. No explosives were found inside the bag. Nina Wolf, who owns Animal Nature, which shares the building with apartments and a restaurant that was empty, was headed up South Braddock from Regent Square when she saw the emergency lights at the building. She was worried the building might be on fire. "I arrived to find I couldn't get to the store," she said. She tried coming up the back way on Flotilla Way but was stopped. Wolf said she was a bit upset because she was not permitted to get the shop's two guinea …

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Morgan Hawkins Drain

12:34 pm on Thursday, January 31, 2013

That's the speculation by commenters on the Post Gazette article. Excellent exposure for the store, I suppose! haha Not so fun for my husband though, who stepped over the "time bomb" on his way out the door to go to work!   more ›

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