San Diego NCAA arena evacuated on bomb scare

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060316/sp_nm/security_ncaa_dc_2

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Police evacuated a San Diego college arena on Thursday, hours before a first-round NCAA championship basketball game, after a bomb-sniffing dog signaled a potential problem at a hot dog stand.

Cox Arena at San Diego State University was cleared while police tried to determine if there was an explosive device in the hot dog stand, college spokesman Jack Beresford said.

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Terra! Terra!

Or maybe just an underfed dog.

Like he said....hungry dog. Somewhere Lassie is smiling.

In the military, it is routine for the MWDs (military working dogs) to be hauled out on occasion for training, and the handlers will plant this 'n that here and there in various work places and have Fido find it. They are also used for 'health and safety' type inspections, whose real goal is to find the pot that some kid has stashed in his barracks locker or is hiding in his desk or in the overhead of his workspace.

They tend to keep the dogs lean, they certainly don't overfeed them.

Well, one day they did one of these 'health and safety' type inspections in my workcenter. They could not have picked a worse day, as we had scads of four stars coming in and out...and several of them were treated to this little vignette.

So, the dog is doing his thing, sniffing here, there, and everywhere, and next thing ya know, he is under one of my chief's desks and VERY interested. The handler is busy chatting up the attractive clerk in the office, and does not notice immediately what the dog is doing. The chief wanders back in, and next thing we hear is the chief bellowing "WHAT THE HELL IS THAT DOG DOING?" The handler then perks up, in comes HIS supervisor, and they are THRILLED to the gills, because they believe the dog has "hit" upon some illegal drugs under the desk of one of the finest, most squared away, highly decorated CPOs in the USN. They back the chief off, and officiously "assume control" of the area immediately around the desk.

Well, the dog is under the desk for quite some time, and eventually, the handler and supervisor, (along with the Chief, who is carping and griping the whole time, and finally, refuses to be denied) bend down to see what is going on. Next thing we hear, at full lungpower, is "GODDAMNED SON OF A BITCH!!!!!!!!!"

The dog was three quarters of the way through the chief's lunch of lumpia and pork adobo, made by his loving wife and stowed away in his pack under his desk. The dog managed to get the pack open, undo the velcro on the refrigerated bag, and pop the tops of not one, but TWO, Tupperware containers.

I suggested to the MWD handlers that the 'politic' thing to do might be to buy the chief a very nice lunch, which, to their credit, they did.

The dog retired soon after. Apparently it wasn't the first time he'd 'helped himself.'

The Chief and the handler ripped it apart finding nothing, is frustrated that they can't bust this E3 and send him to a target. Only thing I can figure is that I had just gotten back from my mother's who had a bitch German Shepherd in heat at the time and I hadn't laundered my civvies yet.

Good sea-story!

-Hoot

Dare we say that dogs are 'only human???'

If we go back to a draft, I can just see all the non-vols getting ahold of "hot" dawgs and dragging them through every corner of the barracks to totally exhaust old Rover!

Funny, that reminds me; back in the days when I had to do those sorts of inspections, I recall a similar thing happening to ONE particular young lady's locker, again and again. Now, this was during the time when the piss tests were first getting started, and they were not really all that reliable, but if you had to guess if this particular Sailor was a partyer, you'd guess she wasn't (spent a lot of time in the library and at church--but hey, some folks can fool you). Anyway, they finally figured out, after tearing this kid's locker apart two or three times, that the dog was alerting on her PERFUME.

I guess, like anything else, it all comes down to training and liberty--the dogs that screwed up were either poorly trained, and/or didn't get enough of the fun things in life!

maybe the dog just smelled those.

Who knows what 'secret ingredients' are in the highly processed foods that only seem to be sold at a wholesale level. There are all sorts of special flavorings that don't seem to be in the foods sold at grocery stores to consumers, that if you want that 'special' flavor, you gotta get 'the fix' for your addiction at the local hot dog stand.

Can a tracking dog's nose distinguish smells at an atomic level?

Perhaps this is a 'terror' warning not to eat hot dogs or some condiment used on them.

Edited to add: Nitrates? Aren't those put in hot dogs? Aren't they also used in some explosives?

I just threw out all my Oscar Myer Weiners, I will not support terror!

It's everywhere.

Don't leave your homes due to the terra!

It really is becoming a little too convenient for me. And these terra alerts only solidify the fact that George Bush and the Republicans are WEAK ON TERROR. Our borders are wide open, cargo isn't inspected before it enters our ports, and we are running out of money to protect ourselves, support our military, and produce weapons. We have also lost our reputation for being fair and peaceful under the dictatorship of George Bush.

WEAK! George Bush has compromised the security of our nation by putting us at risk for terrorist activities.

:rofl:

nm

:bounce:

package, to see what the White House male prostitute has in his pocket.

Involved sex, must be Clinton's fault.

Terrorist Hot Dogs.

Explosive hot dogs?

Are lips and assholes explosive?

Young children show interest in contents of candy store! Mice alert on cheese!

Oh no! Bush can't even protect the republican strong hold of San Diego. Aah!

Yes, our worst fears have been realized! Everyone in the sleepy little port city of San Diego thought the Killer Tomatoes had been vanquished...but...the Tomatoes had other plans. Morphing into catsup, they regrouped, reorganized and became the Terror Franks of Cox Arena!! May God have mercy on our souls.

In theaters summer of '07

terra hotdogs! must have been the FRENCH'S mustard!

with a very nice retort:

Re: LIBTARD ALCU TO SUE BOMB SNIFFING DO
by: bigcagriz 03/16/06 02:17 pm
Msg: 85 of 467

Maybe it should. But, before that happens, I suggest you learn to spell. I mean, just how difficult can it be to spell "ACLU" correctly?
Posted as a reply to: Msg 26 by rose14hof

And then there's this:
How many black athaletes actually
by: hookmans (99/Niger) 03/16/06 02:16 pm
Msg: 73 of 478
1 recommendation

graduate with a deploma?

LOL