Venezuela police scramble to squash pumpkin threat

[emad]

CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) - Venezuelan security services scrambled on Monday to tackle a new threat on the streets of Caracas: Halloween-style pumpkins carrying messages of rebellion against President Hugo Chavez.

Local media showed heavily armed police and bomb experts surrounding one orange squash with a Halloween face and covered with stickers; others sprouted cables and wires making authorities wary they could be home-made explosives.


"We took preventative measures, as this could have been someone with another intention or an artifact that could have harmed someone," Investigative police division commissioner Jesus Gonzalez told local radio.

The pumpkins were found outside the state petrochemical company Pequiven and the offices of Chavez's political party with references to a constitutional article about civil resistance, local media reported. Chavez opponents often refer to Article 350 when calling for support of street protests.

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[William769]

1. But I thought he was loved by the masses?

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

2. You don't need masses to place pumpkins on some buildings' doorsteps.

But you knew that already, of course.

[cantstandbush]

3. Now who do you think would use pumpkins? Halloween is important

to whose culture? The "masses" do love Chavez. It's the capitalists who don't.

[On the Road]

4. Chavez Has Plenty of Enemies

There are lots of poor right-wingers in Venezuela, too. But he got 65% of the recall vote nationally.

[lumpy]

5. Don't know why , but for some reason

this pumpkin thing reminds me of loaded cigars.