'Vampire' With Possible Pipe Bomb Arrested
Issue date: 3/16/10 Section: News
SEATTLE, March 12 (UPI) - A man carrying what he claimed was a pipe bomb near a Seattle courthouse was taken into custody by the city's bomb squad, authorities said.
The man entered a mission on Seattle's Second Avenue dressed in black and covered with duct tape threatening to "blow the place up." He said he was "a vampire and wanted to eat people," The Seattle Times reported Friday.
Staffers removed him from the building and called police, the newspaper said.
When officers arrived, they found the man across the street from the King County Courthouse with a pipe-like device taped to his body.
Told by police to lie down, he accepted a pair of scissors from police and removed the device as ordered, the Times said.
Police took the man into custody then used bomb-squad robots to inspect the device and remove it from the area.
"At this point we don't know what it is," police spokesman Mark Jamieson said. "It looked real enough to enough people."
The man entered a mission on Seattle's Second Avenue dressed in black and covered with duct tape threatening to "blow the place up." He said he was "a vampire and wanted to eat people," The Seattle Times reported Friday.
Staffers removed him from the building and called police, the newspaper said.
When officers arrived, they found the man across the street from the King County Courthouse with a pipe-like device taped to his body.
Told by police to lie down, he accepted a pair of scissors from police and removed the device as ordered, the Times said.
Police took the man into custody then used bomb-squad robots to inspect the device and remove it from the area.
"At this point we don't know what it is," police spokesman Mark Jamieson said. "It looked real enough to enough people."
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