Thursday, April 19, 2007

Some Days its Hard to be the Prop Guy

The prop guy at work, Norm, always includes a story like this when he talks about being a propmaster on a show with weapons. I wonder if this was a prop for something during carnival...

kdka.com - Police To Charge CMU Student After Scare: "Police, emergency crews and the Allegheny County bomb squad responded to the CMU campus around 1pm after someone reported seeing some sort of device in a vehicle parked on campus."

'Suspicious liquid' at CMU shuts section of Forbes Avenue - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: "A police bomb squad removed a suspicious cylinder from the campus of Carnegie Mellon University this afternoon."

CMU Scare Closes Forbes, Ends Up False Alarm - News Story - WTAE Pittsburgh: "Joel Chestnutt, a 26-year-old philosophy major, will be charged with disorderly conduct and possession of a facsimile of a weapon of mass destruction, police said."

kdka.com - Police To Charge CMU Student After Scare: "According to Pittsburgh police, investigators found a cylinder containing what they thought to be a suspicious liquid; but the object was later determined not to be a threat."

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Yeah. Always carry your munitions in unmarked (or not specifically marked) cases/boxes.

Freshman year we were carrying some of mpg's prop guns around from OC2 looking for a place to photograph them. I think we had them in a laundry basket buried within some towels to avoid exactly this sort of situation (or, since it was a few months past columbine, being shot by campus police)