Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Occupy Maine camp attacked with chemical bomb http://www.wcsh6.com/news/article/177145/314/Occupy-Maine-attacked-with-chemical-bomb 
Occupy Maine protesters camped out in Portland's Lincoln Park were attacked early Sunday morning when someone lobbed a chemical bomb at them.  No one was seriously injured when the small, homemade bomb exploded near the camp's main meeting area around 4am.Witnesses say they saw a small, silver sedan circle the park several times with the occupants yelling obscenities before the bomb exploded with a loud bang, followed by a thick cloud of smoke and foul smell."We had a car go by a couple times, honk at us, yell at us, tell us to go get jobs and call us evil names," said Stephanie Wilburn, describing what she and other members of the overnight guard detail in the camp saw and heard.  "It came back around, it slowed down and then sped up.
"They heard a loud clanging sound and went to check it out, but found nothing.  After roughly 45 seconds had passed, the bomb exploded."It was like a 12-gauge shotgun boom with no reverberation, lots of smoke," described Wilburn.  "It smelled really bad."Portland Police were called to the scene and recovered evidence they hope will lead to the person responsible for the attack.

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