False alarm! Bomb in Pattani actually coconut

[webfact]

False alarm! Bomb in Pattani actually coconut

By Asaree Thaitrakulpanich, Staff Reporter -

 

An officer points at the false-alarm coconut Tuesday in Pattani province.

 

PATTANI — A bomb team sent to dispatch a suspicious bag left in front of a school in Pattani on Tuesday morning found a bag of sand with a coconut inside.

 

At 7:30am the director of Bantaladnadklongkul School alerted Special Unit Pattani officers to the presence of a suspicious black bag left in front of the school, which officials proceeded to poke with a long stick, finding inside a pile of sand and a half-kilogram coconut.

 

Full story: http://www.khaosodenglish.com/news/2016/09/27/false-alarm-bomb-pattani-actually-coconut/

 

-- © Copyright Khaosod English 2016-09-27

[Sphere]

11 minutes ago, webfact said:

...officials proceeded to poke with a long stick...

 

Bomb disposal 101, that.

[Dexlowe]

Ahhh ... the old fake bomb in a coconut trick, eh! Fiendishly cunning devils. But they can't fool us - we know there's a real one out there somewhere. Search every coconut plantation immediately !!!!

 

[HomeinThailand]

Is this the one where Gilligan screwed up and left the bag behind???

 

[SOTIRIOS]

....was it intentionally  placed....???

[George FmplesdaCosteedback]

Swiss Family Robinson had coconut bombs.

They poked it with a long stick! How long was the stick?

Half a kilo of semtex would have wiped thew silly grins off their faces!

 

[tifino]

 

a decoy

[Xircal]

Poking the bag with a stick without knowing what's inside it? If it had been a real bomb that might have set it off.