Mad (ison) Bomber

From JS online News Watch.

"WEDNESDAY, July 30, 2008, 4:19 p.m.
By Steven Walters
UPDATE: Backpack had explosive device

Madison - A 67-year-old homeless Madison man taken into custody this afternoon on the Capitol Square tied a backpack with some type of potentially explosive device to a tree on Tuesday, police said.

The man threatened a police detective with a knife or similar weapon after construction workers alerted officers that the same man who tied the backpack to the tree on Tuesday had returned to the area today.

The backpack was blown up by bomb-squad experts on Tuesday, but it contained "some type of potentially explosive device," police spokesman Joel DeSpain said in a statement today.

"Whether or not it had any capability of actually exploding will be determined as its contents undergo forensic testing," DeSpain said.

Today, police said, items found on the man and in a pack on his bike prompted them to again call in the Dane County Sheriff's Department Bomb Squad, which used a robot and a specialist to examine the bike. A wide area of the Capitol lawn, and the block between Martin Luther King Drive west to Carroll St., were roped off for almost four hours.

DeSpain said officers would ask that the man be charged with a felony related to the bomb scare and disorderly conduct while armed.

By 4 p.m., officers had allowed traffic to return to Capitol Square, where thousands were expected for the final Concerts on the Square event tonight. The free concert will go on as scheduled, officials said." JS Online: NewsWatch

Where does a homeless person get a bike and two back packs, ( 67 and can still ride a bike )?

Where do they get things to put in the back packs, "some type of potentially explosive device"?

Maybe he was looking for a homeless shelter!

People of Madison, you have your own Mad (ison) Bomber!

Maybe he is a professor from the U W System.

The rest of the story should be worth reading. Stay tuned!