Canadian Lawyer reports suspected pipe bomb on front porch

[Ian David]

Lawyer reports suspected pipe bomb on front porch
August 21, 2007

The Toronto police Emergency Task Force was dispatched on the weekend after a suspected pipe bomb was found on the front porch of a North York home.

According to police, officers from the explosives disposal unit went to the house and "rendered safe a suspicious package" that had been located by the homeowner, Toronto lawyer Terrence Reiber.

An investigation is continuing as officers try to determine how and why the package ended up at the home. Contacted at work, Mr. Reiber declined to comment on the incident. No injuries were reported.

More:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20070821.TORBRIEFS21-2/TPStory/TPNational/Ontario/

[GliderGuider]

1. from CBC: Letter bombs received in Toronto, police warn

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2007/08/22/letter-bombs.html

Letter bombs received in Toronto, police warn¸
On the evening of Aug. 11, a man in the Victoria Park Avenue-Lawrence Avenue East area sustained injuries to his hands after he opened an envelope he received at his home and it exploded.

Two letter bombs have been received in Toronto recently. The packages are plastic, bubble-wrapped envelopes with properly-addressed courier receipts attached. Eight days later, a real estate lawyer found an envelope at his home in the Yonge Street-Sheppard Avenue West area that afternoon. The package smelled like petroleum, so he notified police and it was safely detonated. Police said it was rigged to explode if opened.

Both packages were plastic, bubble-wrapped envelopes with properly addressed Chiman Ltd. courier receipts attached. They measured 21.5 cm by 24 cm, and contained a petroleum-like substance, police said in a release.

The courier company told CBC News that it did not deliver the packages.

These stories are probably unrelated. But they do cause my eyebrows to rise.