Police find IED on elementary school playground
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ALBANY, Ore. - A Gatorade bottle on a playground might not sound suspicious, but Albany Police suspect the one they found at Periwinkle Elementary on Monday was an improvised explosive device.
"It was Presidents Day, no students here" Principal Bob Daughtery said. "A community member was just accessing the park, saw it, and called the Albany Police Department."
The Oregon State Police bomb squad detonated the device.
Had it exploded with students present, officers said they could have suffered severe chemical burns.
On Tuesday on a different Albany school campus, a student was found with a pellet gun tucked into his backpack.
"He's a student here, he was acting out, behaving inappropriately for school," Albany Options School principal Dan Knight said. "So I asked him to leave."
Knight told KVAL News a neighbor reportedly saw the student waving the pellet gun at the ground and called police.
Albany police Sergeant Jerry Drum said the student came back to campus with the pellet gun in his backpack.
Authorities put the campus into lockdown.
"With the recent things back east," Sgt. Drum said, "and even the mass shooting at the Clackamas Town Center, absolutely everyone's at a heightened awareness of these types of things."
Drum said no students were in grave danger in either of these incidents.
IED ,Why would a birth control device be left on the playground? Weird.
@Ritual99Â ---whatever you are smoking R99, give me a puff off the magic dragon!
@Ritual99Â That would be an IUD.Â
@Kal Varnson @Ritual99 Unless the birth control method was oral sex...then it would be an IOU
We all had chemistry sets in the 60's & 70's -- we all made pop bottle bombs. We didn't leave them laying around for unsuspecting kids or adults to find and nobody got in trouble. The combination of parents not being involved and allowing a safe place to perform these types of experiments and GOV taking every opportunity to run the bomb squad out to a call has caused and overhypes this type of "problem" incident.
@thisBITES! 60s&70? What is this an episode of the golden girls?Â
@Ritual99 @thisBITES! You mean you don't find Betty White irresistible?Â
Aren't you the kid who sad that violent video games had nothing to do with shooting massacres by your ilk?
CBS News also quoted sources saying Lanza chose the school because it was the "easiest target" with the "largest cluster of people." They also reportedly have evidence showing that he was acting out video game fantasies with the deaths equaling some sort of "score." He reportedly spent hours alone in his basement playing video games and practiced shooting real guns with his mom at a shooting range.
IED code word FEAR. Firecracker, fart, water balloon, all IED's. What about the 4 wheel things we drive loaded with petrol, fumes and electricity  IED?  Cars and trucks IED's yes.  A homemade firework probably not.Â
@drinkmorewater IED means Improvised Explosive Device. Yes, this was a type of IED. And yes, there is fear. If my child or any child had decided to kick/play with that bottle, who knows the extent of the injury they would have endured. Yes, fear is what I feel, not because the term IED was used, but because there are idiots who just don't care what happens to people. Idiots in our backyard. We all need a heightened awareness as well as better communication with our children to navigate danger.
@blueasterisk The comment by drinkmorewater was rhetorical sarcasm which you didn't have the intelligence to understand .  Thus making you one of those, as your termed "idiots in our backyard".
@Ritual99 @blueasterisk ---all this from an idiot that failed to differentiate the acronymical IED from an IUD? Hang in there R99! Someday a puppy dog like you will be able to keep up with the old dogs, when we are not busy trying to find somebody to change your diapers.
What is this, Fallujah? Â School is no place for deadly explosives or pellet guns (you'll shoot your eye out). Â So much for, "harmless," video games like Call of Duty...
@J. BurtonBTWÂ @Baldr Odinson likes to play Call of Doooty, so i blame him.Â
@J. Burton I love those sandwiches.
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I wonder if the IED was placed by the same kid. Â How old was this kid? Â And what became of him after the second time he brought the gun onto school grounds? Â Did the police at least take the pellet gun away and report him to the parents? Â Lots of questions left unanswered by this article.
Shouldnt you be out puffin on some serious "I hate America and the constitution" peter?
This story was already on the news a day ago KVAL trying to fill a little space today.
Kids.
@dkgiovenco ---Birth Control