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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