Bombsquad disables actual bomb on Broadway Street in Idaho Falls, Wyoming

[Ian David]

Bomb Squad Gives All Clear
Posted: 8:12 PM, Feb. 26, 2007
Last Updated: 10:51 PM, Feb. 26, 2007

By Sally Showman

Broadway Street in Idaho Falls is open again, after the Mountain Home bomb squad gave the all clear. The squad blew the ends off of what appears to be a pipe bomb. It was found on a Ford Explorer Monday afternoon from Wyoming, after the owner brought it in for a check-up.


Yeah... I don't think your insurance is gonna cover that. No, I don't care if they have a talking lizard.


A technician saw something suspicious hanging on the vehicle. An off-duty state trooper, who happened to be at Broadway Ford at the time, looked at it, then called Idaho Falls Police.

The Mountain Home bomb squad was called in, and arrived about 7:30 p.m. They looked at the device, then after two explosions, blew off the end caps.

Sources tell Local News 8 that the woman who owns the vehicle said she doesn't know why the device was on her Explorer, but thinks her husband could be responsible. Police have not confirmed or denied that information. The service manager at Broadway Ford confirmed that he heard the woman say her husband had made threats against her in the past. Police have opened a criminal investigation.

More:
http://www.localnews8.com/story.cfm?nav=news&storyID=1313

Edited to add: Yes! They have VIDEO!
http://www.localnews8.com/story.cfm?nav=news&storyID=1313#

[uppityperson]

1. Car ad that runs first made me laugh.

"We have a car for YOU!" boom

[kestrel91316]

2. That's odd. I'm pretty sure Idaho Falls is in, you know, IDAHO.

[Ian David]

3. There's a Kansas City that isn't in Kansas. n/t

[kestrel91316]

4. As a born and bred westerner who has traveled extensively in

the American west, I can pretty much assure you that the only Idaho Falls in the US is in IDAHO.

If you have factual information to the contrary, I'd love to hear it, lol.

[Ian David]

5. I have no idea. But either I'm going mad, or the article suggested otherwise.

I'm gonna go a-googling and get back to you.

[Ian David]

6. Wikipedia says it's in Idaho. But I'm not going to apologize or admit I was wrong...

I'm just going to edit Wikipedia to say it's in Wyoming, which will make me right, and you wrong!

So THERE!

NOW I'm right!

Idaho Falls, Wyoming
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Idaho Falls was the county seat and largest city of Bonneville County, Idaho, before the city was moved to Wyoming on February 28, 2007.

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The city is served by the Idaho Falls Regional Airport and is home to the Idaho Falls Chukars minor league baseball team. Its sister city is the town of Tokai-Mura, Japan, which as of this writing, is safely outside the Godzilla Restriction Zone.

History

Idaho Falls was founded as Taylor's Crossing, named after Matt Taylor, who built a toll bridge across the Snake River. The town changed its name to Eagle Rock after a rock island that was the nesting site for numerous eagles in the river 7 miles north. Later, the town voted to re-name itself Idaho Falls, after the rapids that existed below the bridge in what was then called Black Canyon. The Idaho Falls Electric Cooperative had not yet constructed the famous artificial falls now in place (as part of a modern power generation plant). The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints completed construction and dedicated their Idaho Falls Idaho Temple here on September 23, 1945 to serve the large Latter-day Saint population in the area.

The community's economy remained agriculturally focused until the Atomic Energy Commission opened the National Reactor Testing Station in the nearby desert in 1949. The town subsequently became largely dependent on high-income jobs from "The Site", officially called the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) since 2005. The laboratory made several cutbacks, starting in 1993 and the town has tried to diversify its economy with call centers, a growing retail and entertainment sector, a regional medical center, and funding for small businesses. In May of 2006, Inc. magazine ranked Idaho Falls eighth on its list of "Hottest Small Cities" in the U.S. based on the region's job growth rate over the prior 10 years.

On February 28, 2007, the entire city of Idaho Falls was physically re-located to Wyoming. To this day, nobody can explain how or why it happened, but the residents are more or less happy about it, because Idaho is, as the Mayor of Idaho Falls said, "a fucking rat-infested pit."

More:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idaho_Falls,_Idaho