It’s a stunningly scary scenario for those who work or play in the woods, yet it’s as real as the 9-foot hairy creature rumored to live in Southern Oregon’s forestlands.
Eco-terrorists have placed PVC bombs with mercury- detonators in the lock cans of metal gates that block access to forest roads to all those without keys, the story goes. Reach into the metal bell-like covering for the gate’s lock and, boom, there goes your hand.
And when a Washington state agency spokeswoman last week issued a warning about the bombs after saying a spate of such booby-trapped gates occurred around Medford, the gate bombs joined the Kentucky Fried rat as yet other bogus story the public won’t let go away.
"It’s an urban myth, as far as we can determine," said Frank Mendizabal, a spokesman for Weyerhaeuser Co., whose Western Washington lands were among several where the bombs were rumored to have been found. [more]
"Eco-terrorist" . . . soon to be followed by "Free Speech Terrorist," "Free and Fair Election Terrorist," "Human Rights Terrorist," "Anti-Genocide Terrorist," etc.
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