Sunday, May 02, 2010

Suspected pipe bomb detonated near finish line of Pittsburgh Marathon

Running 26.2 miles is enormously challenging...but luckily participants in today's Pittsburgh Marathon didn't have to confront what may have been a pipe bomb.

Runners were redirected around the suspected bomb, and the device, which KDKA-TV describes as a pipe bomb inside a microwave, was detonated by the Pittsburgh Police bomb squad.

Thanks to Marathon Pundit reader Vince of Chicago's Northwest Side for the story tip.

UPDATE 7:00pm CDT: The device was not believed to be a bomb, according to a Fox News report. It's hard to believe, but other races have had on-the-spot course changes--a bomb threat at a nursing home caused a 5k race to alter its route in 2006, and a year earlier, the prestigious Army 10-Miler became a non-competitive run when a suspicious-looking backpack was found on the course in Washington DC. Both incidents were false-alarms.

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