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Student to be reimbursed for blown-up bike
‘This Bike Is a Pipe Bomb’ sticker set off evacuations at Ohio University
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updated 5:42 p.m. ET March 31, 2006
ATHENS, Ohio - Ohio University will reimburse a student for a bicycle that was destroyed during a bomb scare.
A sticker on Patrick Hanlin's bike led authorities to shut down four campus buildings March 5.
The sticker said "This Bike is a Pipe Bomb." Authorities later learned that was the name of a Florida punk band.
Bomb experts destroyed the bike and found no bomb inside.
A university attorney says the replacement cost of the 7-year-old touring bike is between $800 and $1,300.
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A charge of inducing panic had been filed against Hanlin, but it was later dropped.
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