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Suspicious package identified as trumpet

by The Patriot-News Friday April 25, 2008, 7:33 AM




JOHN C. WHITEHEAD, The Patriot-NewsThe father of a Camp Hill student, left, and Gregory J. Ammons, Camp Hill chief of police, right, walk away with his child's trumpet, which caused a bomb scare at Camp Hill Middle School this morning.


A suspicious package found today outside Camp Hill High School triggered a two-hour delay but turned out to be a case containing a student's trumpet, police said.
Police were called around 6 a.m. after a custodian found what appeared to be a suitcase leaning against a fire hydrant near a driveway on the west side of the building at 24th and Chestnut streets, which houses both the high school and middle school.


School officials responded by delaying the start of classes at all district buildings for two hours and canceled morning kindergarten. Planned field trips for students in the first and fourth grades were rescheduled.


The area around the school was cordoned off and a bomb disposal unit from state police was called to the scene. Police said the suitcase was X-rayed and deemed to be safe, police said.
Police said the case contained a trumpet that apparently had been left there by a student after band activity at the high school Thursday night.
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The trumpet has been returned to the student. Police said Chestnut Street at the high school was reopened to traffic around 7:50 a.m.
In addition to the delay, there will be no morning kindergarten classes, and field trips planned for students in the first and fourth grades will be rescheduled, the district said.

Bear

wow, what is happening to our world? Lol.

That kid'll be famous! for an hour...

rowuk

Some student trumpets are really that dangerous, believe me!!!!!! I've been there.

oldlou

I will wager that the subject student got wrung out a good bit by his dad for walking off and leaving his trumpet leaning against a fire hydrant all night. I know that I never did a thing like that when I was a kid. My dad would have maked me wish to die. It was HIS King Silvertone trumpet.


OLDLOU>>