I would rather think they did

There's not much you can do to hide.

you can clearly see the wires do not connect to anything. there is no power source.

What do you mean? They were the ones who found it.

Nothing requires them to disclose this to the press.

Why did they even disclose it before they knew what it was?

This stinks to high heavens.

They hyped it for the elections.

Now that would be suspicious. Do you have statements with time stamps?

But the press would notice the bomb squad heading off and would be more than interested.

Don't forget we also found out about the ricin sent off recently.

I'm not arguing that they see this stuff all the time.

The number of incidents that the Selective Service deals with are actually pretty numerous.

I'm saying they probably didn't have the ability to not say something.

I don't know how often they receive fake bombs, but I would like to have stats on that.

If this is something that happens once per month, it's theater for the elections.

Also, these bombs are so primitive, I wonder if the Secret Service would have immediately realized they are fake.

The bomb squad is going to always assume the things are live.

I am pretty sure they have the ability to not take it to the press.

Just being filled with black powder is dangerous enough.

They have tens of thousands of security related incidents each year.

i don't know man

IF they disclosed each one, they would have enough to fill their own newspaper

if they think a device is a real danger they typically blow it in place

or get a robot to transport it where it can be safely detonated.

^

i've never seen EOD defuse something

they always blow it

I'm more surprised they got good X-rays.

And yeah, @Atkins this is very odd.

Anyway. I get the feeling as if this election hype.

To at least 70%.

Whomever built this didn't do a good job.

oh yeah, terrible job

Whoever built this wasn't even trying.

Was there even any explosive material?

they should at the very least have used steel instead of PVC

We will never hear about the followup.

What's with the detonator wires looping back over to each other?