Venezuelan Police Squash Pumpkin Threat
From Times Wire Reports
Venezuelan police scrambled to the headquarters of state petrochemical company Pequiven and the offices of President Hugo Chavez’s political party in Caracas after someone left pumpkins bearing protest messages at the sites.
Local media showed heavily armed police and bomb experts surrounding one jack-o’-lantern covered with stickers. Others sprouted cables and wires.
Weeks earlier, paper skeletons with anti-Chavez messages were hung from bridges and lampposts.
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