Ceci n'est pas une pipe bomb!

This is just way beyond funny. My little hippie town of Athens, OH has had several bomb scares in the past week or so...seeing evacuated dorms, half naked kids in flip flops talking on cell phones crowded onto sidewalks and narrow streets, is now, apparently, de rigeur here. It's the chance encounter of bubble gum, booze, band culture, and police state hysteria on an operating table. Unbelievable. It all started with a kid who had a band sticker on his bike (click the title of this post for more on this reputable coterie of serious artists), copied from some blog in Athens (which I don't read). Well, let's hope the poor kid doesn't get proclaimed an enemy cobatant and shipped off to GitMo:

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Just recieved this from a band in Tennessee called Lucero.


***ATHENS, Ohio -- Authorities in Athens said that they were investigating a mountain bike that put the Ohio University campus on high alert Thursday morning.

Athens Acting Fire Chief Ken Gilbraith said that the bike had a sticker on it that said, "This bike is a pipe bomb." He said the university police discovered it overnight, parked outside a campus restaurant.

(there is a band called "This bike is a pipe bomb" and they are from Pensacola, Florida, on plan-it-x records (http://www.plan-it-x.com/) and have a venue (http://www.angelfire.com/folk/core/) and are amazing and fun.)

OU closed four buildings, police blocked streets around the Oasis restaurant, the fire department brought in off-duty firefighters, and the Columbus fire department's bomb squad was called in.

Gilbraith said the bomb experts attacked the bike with a high-pressure spray of water, then pried it open with a hydraulic tool and found no bomb inside.

The university remained in session throughout the incident. The four buildings were reopened by 9 a.m.

A fan of this bike is a pipe bomb who sported the
band's sticker on his bike in athens, ohio is in way
big trouble...

Apparently, after leaving his bike parked on the
street, he returned to find a bomb squad and
handcuffs. He was told that because of the sticker on
his bike he was a threat and accused of being a
bombing terrorist...

SO THIS IS WHERE HE NEEDS YOUR HELP!!!!!!!

IF YOU KNOW OF ANYONE WITH THE SAME STICKER ON THEIR
BIKE, TAKE A PICTURE OF IT AND SEND IT TO
thruhiker@riseup.net

THIS GUY NEEDS HELP PROVING THAT THIS STICKER IS
MERELY A BAND STICKER AND NOT A BOMB THREAT

PLEASE REPOST THIS BECAUSE IF HE LOSES THE INITIAL
TRIAL IT WILL COST HIM OVER 10,000 DOLLARS AND
POTENTIALLY HIS FREEDOM

AGAIN thruhiker@riseup.net - or you can send it to evaolymagruder@hotmail.com******