Bomb Scare Caused By Messy Box Of Ribs

CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. — A messy box of ribs left in a Clarksville parking lot caused police to call in the bomb squad and a bomb inspecting robot. The Leaf-Chronicle reports police blocked off the city's Public Square Thursday morning after someone noticed a box with a warning on the side warning that anyone who touched it would lose their hands.

Police spokesman Jim Knoll said the owner of the box was soon located. The woman told police she was from Chicago and had brought the ribs with her when she came to town for a family reunion. She had left the box in the parking lot to dry after she took out the ribs. The warning was a joke.

No charges were filed.

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Information from: The Leaf-Chronicle, http://www.theleafchronicle.com

Comments

[weirwolf]

12:26 PM on 06/23/2010

lol

[ontariogirl]

10:20 PM on 06/21/2010

Sounds like a Get Smart episode I saw years ago.

[satanlite]

01:38 PM on 06/21/2010

The real bombing happens an hour after eating the ribs.

[Jennifer Hagan]

02:54 AM on 06/21/2010

LMAO This isn't an Onion article?

[Blitzkrieg Barbie]

04:10 PM on 06/20/2010

Those ribs....must be the bomb!

[JPFranklin]

02:23 PM on 06/20/2010

We can't blame this bomb scare on muslims

[colamonkey]

12:47 PM on 06/20/2010

I'm going to a rib fest this Friday. Woo! Can't wait! I'm going to starve myself all day and then gorge!

[slackgeek]

12:30 AM on 06/20/2010

what? i didnt even read the article. i almost orgasmed at the photo of the ribs. i would like to eat these, please.

[MarkinNM]

12:48 PM on 06/20/2010

They look way overdone to me, however if the photo is enough to get you off we should get together.

[blytzd]

11:53 PM on 06/19/2010

How much for one rib?

[rarteaga]

03:58 AM on 06/20/2010

I sho am hungry!

[bobbiisadukefan]

08:14 AM on 06/21/2010

Hilarious! I'm gonna get you sucka!

[BannedInBoston]

10:27 PM on 06/19/2010

The _War on _Terror is over. The _terrorists won....

[johnnygoodwud]

12:54 PM on 06/19/2010

moral of the story, EAT the ribs, don't pussyfoot around with them.

[The Henker Group]

11:44 AM on 06/19/2010

This is hilarious. Something I would do!

http://www.thehenkergroup.com

[Notawingnut]

10:45 AM on 06/19/2010

Those don't look like ribs.

[BannedInBoston]

10:33 PM on 06/19/2010

It's a "rib _bomb"....

[AlamoSexual]

10:24 AM on 06/19/2010

Mystery-meat solved:

Lazy author went to AP images and used the first "rib" search result that looked like meat. The photo is of "deadline pork ribs". A little bit of investigation shows that these are actually boneless "country style" ribs - which are not ribs whatsoever - and the recipe is from an article in Thailand.

Lazy, lazy, lazy.

http://www.apimages.com/Search.aspx?st=det&kw=ribs&ids=Food%20Deadline%20Pork%20Ribs&showact=details&sort=date&intv=None&cfas=PERSON_FEATURED_NAME&sh=10&kwstyle=and&adte=1276956787&pagez=60&cfasstyle=AND&PERSON_FEATURED_NAME=%22Food%20Deadline%20Pork%20Ribs%22

http://newshopper.sulekha.com/food-deadline-pork-ribs_photo_1302192.htm

ps: ribs have bones.

[GeoNorth]

10:41 AM on 06/19/2010

I absolutely agree with you. Ribs have bones. Hell, ribs are bones. Taking the bone out take away some flavor. Likewise, supposed boneless chicken wings. I've never seen a boneless chicken. Again, taking out the bone takes way flavor. In the case of chicken without bones, most of the time they are simply chicken nuggets. Semi-cooked chicken is deboned and sent through a screen that turns it into mush. Then they mold it into nuggets, "wings", or any shape they wish. Unfortunately, they can't mold the flavor back in. You're right, those are not ribs shown. By the way, while I'm on the subject, if you describe your ribs as "fall off the bone good", I don't want them. The meat should stay on the bone until you pull it off. If it's falling off the bone, it means it soggy with fats. It not ribs, it pulled pork produced from what should have been a great rib dinner. Crap, now I'm hungry.

[AlamoSexual]

10:46 AM on 06/19/2010

I just pulled a slab of baby-backs from the freezer - this article made my "what to do for dinner" daily sojourn a breeze.

[yasunari]

05:44 PM on 06/19/2010

Agreed. 100%. Fanned.
Don't take away the bones before cooking the meat. Left some fat too, for the flavor, not for the texture only.

[Pinkasaurus]

11:00 PM on 06/19/2010

I see they got a new picture for this story.

[AlamoSexual]

10:12 AM on 06/19/2010

Boneless center-loin? With sesame seeds? I've never seen ribs that look like that.