Thursday, June 16, 2011

An explosive lunch

The St. Paul Bomb Squad showed our Eagan Rotary Club this $210,000 bomb robot after our weekly lunch meeting. Rotarian Michael Proebstle volunteered to put on the 80 pounds of protective bomb gear. We had a blast with the two bomb squad officers!

18 comments:

Montreal Photo Daily said...

Kaboom of a post!
Does that $ figure include the Halloween suit?

Bon jeudi!

Kate said...

Hope that's the only blast you encounter and that you never have use for that robot!

Dina said...

You need these robots even in Eagan??
I've never seen so much protective gear on one man.

EG CameraGirl said...

Kinda scary!

Stevenson Q said...

That is one special Robot Leif! Good Luck to it and hope it does a great job finding Bombs and keep everybody safe :)

Steven^^

Kaori said...

I just hope you don't have very many bombs in Eagan!

Regina K said...

That does look like fun, maybe not so fun wearing all that gear though.

Rob Siemann said...

Looks like that rob they want to use on Mars. Men are from Mars, aren't they?

Jack said...

I am staggered that Eagan sees enough risk of bombs that it would invest $210,000 in this technology.

Grensboro Daily Photo said...

Wow! What an investment. Does it get used much? by the way, I want to hear the dixie band!

Anonymous said...

May you all continue to know such peacefulness.



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Leif Hagen said...

The St Paul bomb squad brought their robot and their protective gear to demonstrate to the Rotary Club of Eagan. All that equipment belongs to St. Paul, not to Eagan.

PerthDailyPhoto said...

I'm just glad they have such a robot for when they do need it, not in Eagan hopefully. Bombs are too risky to use people, interesting lunch you had Leif and interesting post, thanks.

Irredento Urbanita said...

If we wouldn't make bombs, those robots wouldn't be necessary. Amazing shot.

Regards

Valery

Barcelona Daily Photo

Dina said...

Oh right, it's St. Paul's robot. Now I get it. Good.

Unknown said...

Sci-Fi! :-)

Living In Williamsburg Virginia said...

Cool demonstration. Nice to know the robot handles the dangerous stuff . . . unless of course you are the robot.

Darryl and Ruth : )

Anonymous said...

I hope you neve use this robo!!!

Claudio Veiga.
Brasil