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Suspicious package

Posted by Robin on 31 January 2013 11 Comments

TNT Eau de Parfum

A CITY centre hotel was evacuated today after a designer perfume bottle, shaped like a bundle of TNT, was mistaken for a bomb. Staff at the Hilton Hotel in Tower Street called police at 9.20am after the ‘suspicious package’ was found in the ladies toilets.

— Read more at "Dynamite" perfume bottle causes bomb scare at York hotel at the UK's York Press.

Filed Under: perfume in the news
Tagged With: perfume as weapon

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  1. KateReed says:
    31 January 2013 at 9:14 am

    Yeah, because that looks like real dynamite. Being labeled “TNT Eau de Parfum” and all…

    Honestly, if you were going to plant a bomb, wouldn’t you be a little more clever than this?

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    • Robin says:
      31 January 2013 at 11:12 am

      Agree with Rictor below…don’t think I’d be carrying this around, much less leaving it in a restroom!

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  2. Rictor07 says:
    31 January 2013 at 10:21 am

    This is not a perfume anyone should be traveling with.

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    • Robin says:
      31 January 2013 at 11:12 am

      Probably best not.

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  3. Mitzi says:
    31 January 2013 at 12:45 pm

    This looks like something Wile. E. Coyote would leave behind! I think it’s a PR stunt by the perfume company.

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    • Robin says:
      31 January 2013 at 12:49 pm

      Ha…could well be.

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  4. Ginny M says:
    31 January 2013 at 1:16 pm

    And then there was this in Seattle: http://www.komonews.com/news/local/Decorative-cologne-bottle-shuts-down-Seattle-street-180949511.html
    Really? What idiot would throw away a partial bottle of Spicebomb?

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    • Robin says:
      31 January 2013 at 1:22 pm

      Thanks — I missed that one!

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    • Dilana says:
      1 February 2013 at 9:15 am

      Now I can see that someone seeing a bottle from a distance might not want to pick it up for a closer look and would want a bomb squad However, once it was determined to be a bottle of perfume, why subject it to forensic testing.

      Maybe the officer who placed it in a forensic testing bag, took it home to do some “testing” before a big date.

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  5. idw1407 says:
    1 February 2013 at 5:40 am

    I remember travelling in the 90’s when JPG first came out. Did get some funny looks when my hand luggage went through the scanner. Lol

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  6. Omega says:
    2 February 2013 at 6:31 am

    I’d carry it, along with my mace and my 357;).

    Also, so I can say, I am dynamite!

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