The Oregonian reports that hikers found a trip wire and an improvised gun device on a multi-use trail in Forest Park, in northwest Portland, Oregon.
They found a parachute cord rigged to a three-quarter-inch-diameter pipe — open at one end, closed at the other — attached to a tree. There appeared to be a firing pin at the closed end. The cord was attached to a beer bottle that was supposed to swing down and strike the firing pin at the back of the device when the cord was tripped.
One of the hikers called a friend who works as a bomb squad technician for the Portland-area interagency Metropolitan Explosives Disposal Unit. Bomb squad members found what they described as an improvised firearm loaded with a shotgun shell attached to a trip wire. A dog apparently tripped the device when it stepped on the parachute cord, but the gun apparently malfunctioned.
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