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Re: Can someone in the Irving TX area "draft" this young man?

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Actually it looks nothing like an IED except the kind you see in the movies. No explosives, shrapnel, or bomb casing (like pressure cooker). Closed it looked like a nondescript case. Which looks more like an IED than the wires since IEDs should be nondescript, Our robotics lab is currently a mess. it has circuit boards and wires all over the place. Some of which would make effective bomb timers. We also have air rifles in the same place, but that is a different story.
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I used to work for a company that makes countermeasures for IEDs. They look like garbage or backpacks (or cars) and are not put into hard cases. They don't have timers with giant cartoonish LCD displays. The electrics are made using cell phones as remote triggers, not AC coils and 9V batteries.
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