A magnetometer and some batteries from the back of a stolen pickup truck belonging to Quantec Geoscience caused a bomb scare in Kamloops, B.C. last Saturday. The local police bomb squad thought it looked suspicious enough, and consulted the Vancouver bomb squad as well. Downtown Kamloops was evacuated while the Vancouver bomb squad dealt with the situation. At left, a GEM GSM-19 Walking Magnetometer, possibly similar to the one mistaken for a bomb? [Source: CBC News. Image: Quantec Geoscience]
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The Kansas Geological Survey has some interesting seismic equipment that they have used on behalf of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to look for drug tunnels along the US-Mexico border. I’ve never seen anything quite like this. The sensors all appear to be placed within an old fire hose and mounted onto a Bobcat Toolcat utility machine. On the front of the vehicle is a cyllinder with a 60-lb weight that gets dropped. Read on. (Photo by Richard Gwin, LJWorld.com)