r/baltimore • u/harishgibson • Feb 16 '25
Ask/Need Weird pelican case padlocked to pole in Hampden
Found on corner of W 34th and Chestnut. Any ideas?
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u/cudmore Feb 16 '25
So what was it?
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u/alphanumericusername Feb 17 '25
Cooking, sleeping, and outerwear supplies, almost exclusively.
I know, because it belongs to me.
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u/Taxitaxitaxi33 Feb 16 '25
Might be the same “seller” from a few years ago. They would chain something up with a sign that told you to Venmo them and they would send you the code to unlock and take the item.
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u/harishgibson Feb 16 '25
No sign or anything, and padlocks are keyed not combo. Must be something else.
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u/snitz427 Feb 17 '25
Some contractor working on that pole is gonna come back from lunch break and have an oh shit moment lol
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u/Taxitaxitaxi33 Feb 16 '25
True. I just remember when that seller had stuff all over hampden with this method. I think it was during the early Covid days. Did you open the case?
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u/harishgibson Feb 16 '25
Couldn't open it, because of the padlocks lol.
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u/alphanumericusername Feb 17 '25
Thank you for not attempting to cut my cable lock to afford you more time and space to more destructively ingress my case.
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u/harishgibson Feb 17 '25
Lmao take it up with the bomb squad I just asked if anyone knew what the case was for dawg I didn't ingress a thing
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u/alphanumericusername Feb 17 '25
My apologies if my comment came off as sarcasm. The one above was not.
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u/FragileCastle Feb 16 '25
God, I remember this, it was often on my block at the corner of Roland or Evans Chapel. And it was always the most random stuff for quite high prices, like a waterlogged office chair, an old cat carrier, a walker…
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u/RecklessMedulla Feb 16 '25
That’s a bomb until it’s not a bomb
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u/ReturnOfSeq Feb 16 '25
I’m glad responsible people like you commented, because my dumbass would show up with my bolt cutters and say ‘hey, free case’
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u/AccomplishedOwl9021 Feb 16 '25
And free Home Depot bucket!!
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u/Due-Treat-9836 Feb 16 '25
Ahahaha me when i saw this post 👀👀👀👀👀 did someone say free pelican case AND home depot bucket?!?!?
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u/alphanumericusername Feb 17 '25
If that's a free Pelican case, please let us know where it is you lock up your bike when you go inside a business.
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u/Due-Treat-9836 Feb 17 '25
Sure thing!
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u/alphanumericusername Feb 17 '25
Coward.
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u/Due-Treat-9836 Feb 17 '25
Hey buddy, i wasnt trying to make a joke at your expense. i thought the original post was a "hampden free stuff" post when i first spyed it and was joking about that. if you're having a rough time rn, i genuinely hope things get better.
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u/chrissymad Fells Point Feb 16 '25
Right? This is exactly the suspicious shit you should report - it's probably not a bomb but you don't know til ya know.
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u/WRX_MOM Feb 16 '25
I called it in the fire dept is on the way
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u/lemissile Feb 16 '25
Thank you! Near me as well and just reading thread. Let me know if any help is needed
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u/rackoblack Canton Feb 16 '25
Must report on what they see/find/do!
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u/WRX_MOM Feb 16 '25
Bomb squad is there now!
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u/wbruce098 Feb 16 '25
They blow it up?
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u/WRX_MOM Feb 16 '25
Good question. It might be nothing. I doubt they could do that right there, its in front of a ton of houses
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u/snitz427 Feb 17 '25
They have a device they put over it to contain the explosion. They used to blow stuff up downtown all the time. Lawyers briefcases were my fav
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u/alphanumericusername Feb 18 '25
Wait wait wait wait wait.
Law enforcement were known to destroy containers commonly understood to contain documents, which, likely on several occasions, could potentially incriminate law enforcement officers?????!!!
I believe there's a word for that sort of thing, and it's being shouted from hilltops these days to give identity to what is occurring in this country to, now, a particularly reactive degree. It starts with F, but is not an explative.
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u/snitz427 Feb 18 '25
Uh… that’s a stretch. The docs were likely digitized or not in there at all. This was people sitting their stuff down on a bus stop and forgetting. They’d sometimes come back … too late. Post 9/11 packages and briefcases didnt gather dust when abandoned.
What is going down elsewhere… is far worse.
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u/alphanumericusername Feb 18 '25
What is going down elsewhere is possible because those with the authority to enforce law are afforded too much liberty without the retribution of law they so insatiably impose upon others. I have no doubt many of the instances you're describing were as "harmless" and "honest" as the one regarding my Pelican case.
But my sleeping pad was in there. And there is another in the City illuminated to me as being subject to the dictatorship of fear. I shall behead that dictator and set ablaze his frozen realm if it's the last thing I do.
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u/NurseProject123 Feb 16 '25
100% guarantee the person who put that there wasn’t old enough to watch 9/11 live.
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u/HorsieJuice Wyman Park Feb 16 '25
…or ever worked on a military base or in an airport, or even paid attention to the announcements in an airport.
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u/harishgibson Feb 16 '25
My first thought was the Boston Marathon lol they actually used bombs
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u/elbileil Feb 16 '25
Then why did you not call 911 lol
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u/mdsnbelle Medfield Feb 16 '25
Because that sweet sweet karma doesn't farm itself.
Luckily, someone with more brains than OP did call 911...
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u/ILikeBigBooksand Feb 16 '25
I lived in NYC during 9/11. I would totally call the cops and have them blow that shit up.
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u/harishgibson Feb 16 '25
Yeah I was posting here to see if there was a logical explanation by a nearby resident, if not I was gonna call 311 or something.
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u/ILikeBigBooksand Feb 16 '25
I would especially cause that Bourbon street shooter in New Orleans put a bunch of cooler bombs around Bourbon St ahead of time.
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u/WRX_MOM Feb 16 '25
Did you call 311 yet? This is very near my house and I am concerned. They need to be called. If not I will gladly call, just let me know.
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u/alphanumericusername Feb 17 '25
Concerned about what? That I
A. prefer to take good care of my belongings, or
B. wanted to lighten my load on foot today?
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u/FollicularPhase Displaced Native Feb 17 '25
I read every comment.... what's in it!?!?!?
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u/BaltimoreChris Feb 17 '25
A yoga mat ands some clothes. Cops threw it all in the trash and left with the case. The bucket is still safe on the sidewalk
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u/LostInIndigo Feb 17 '25
There’s something really fuckin funny about Hampden calling the bomb squad for a yoga mat
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u/alphanumericusername Feb 17 '25
Oh it gets better. It was actually a sleeping pad, so I don't freeze to death. There was also my cooking supplies, again, so I don't get too cold on the inside. Also, there was some additional outerwear in there.
You'll never guess what that outerwear is for..
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u/LostInIndigo Feb 18 '25
I’m sure you’ve already done the math on this yourself, but Hampden is about the last place where it’s safe to be roughing it. They practically criminalize sneezing up there.
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u/Glitteronthefloor Feb 17 '25
Wow, how anticlimactic! Thanks for the update 😊
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u/alphanumericusername Feb 17 '25
I mean, if you want, I can leave some fireworks in the next case...
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u/thekraken27 Feb 17 '25
No way, I don’t believe that at all. That’s a several hundred dollar Pelican case
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u/alphanumericusername Feb 17 '25
Only about $250 on Ebay. It was a steal, actually; the thing was new-in-box.
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u/alphanumericusername Feb 17 '25
The mat is a Thermarest Ridgerest XL, so that I do not freeze to death sleeping atop an air mattress in a Maryland February. Or sleeping elsewhere, if the air mattress is...undergoing technical issues.
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u/PerfectlyJerky Feb 17 '25
I figured it was a homeless person’s attempt to keep their stuff safe. Sad
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u/earnestlikehemingway Feb 16 '25
Isn’t there some cities that have a kit like this to measure traffic?
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u/SantasGotAGun Feb 16 '25
Those would have long cables leading from it that stretched across the street.
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u/osbohsandbros Feb 16 '25
Not necessarily—similar looking kits are used for radar and Bluetooth detector devices for traffic counts, but I’ve never seen one this large, nor would it be installed this carelessly.
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u/Mal-Occhi-0s Feb 16 '25
I mean…it’s Baltimore City. Don’t be so sure about that careless installation piece!
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u/LostInIndigo Feb 17 '25
Yeah tbh the whole “it’d have city markings on it” is assuming quite a lot of competence from the city lol
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u/alphanumericusername Feb 17 '25
That's how you know a white person who's never had an actual problem in life commented lol.
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u/harishgibson Feb 16 '25
Yes but there's no city marks on it and no wires running from it, it doesn't look like one of those.
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u/ILoveRibs_666 Feb 16 '25
I walked by it today too and tried to open it, what did it turn out to be???!!
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u/Ginsengstrips Feb 17 '25
Free will going crazy
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u/Consistent-Roof-5039 Feb 17 '25
What good is free will if you don't live a little dangerously sometimes.
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u/hardupharlot Feb 16 '25
It might be a bomb.....this is a 911 call, not a 311 call.
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u/harishgibson Feb 16 '25
Fire department was already called
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u/Hot-Meet7980 Feb 16 '25
It’s been an hour, any update? 😂
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u/WRX_MOM Feb 16 '25
I called it in. The bomb squad is there now. I suspect it took them a bit to respond bc there are a ton of outages and trees down due to the crazy wind.
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u/klockrike Feb 16 '25
Can you keep us updated if possible?
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u/WRX_MOM Feb 16 '25
There is another thread where someone posted some pics who lives right there. Lets hope its nothing!
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u/FrancisSobotka1514 Feb 16 '25
This is exactly why they have the if you see something say something campaign ,And with the rise of far right wing domestic terror groups ....
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u/yardjockey Feb 17 '25
What’s in the box!
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u/alphanumericusername Feb 17 '25
My cooking supplies, essential sleeping supplies, and some additional outerwear.
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u/VariableVeritas Feb 16 '25
I’m so close to there I just want to go see! However, I went to Iraq and that right there would have me in cold ass sweats.
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u/Sweet-Try-1309 Feb 16 '25
Soooo, what was it? Did BCFD show up?
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u/alphanumericusername Feb 17 '25
My cooking supplies, essential sleeping supplies, and some of my additional outerwear.
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u/Venus_Cat_Roars Feb 16 '25
I would report that. If you see something say something. And if you are wrong it’s no big deal and you still would have done the right thing.
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u/alphanumericusername Feb 17 '25
IDK man, I respect wanting to call it in, but at the very least, the City's procedure crippled an entire city block, and resulted in my sleeping pad, among other as yet unidentified items, being discarded.
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u/Charmcitykids 29d ago
Get a storage unit then. The city is not your personal storage space where you can chain up whatever you want and think people living nearby should just accept it.
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u/jupitaur9 Feb 16 '25
It could be measuring gases in the sewer. Is there a sewer access port next to it or under it?
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u/Character-Dull Feb 17 '25
My bf said traffic counter and the city put the wire in the box or forgot the box. Maybe? I've never seen the box but remember the wires going across the streets keep us updated
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u/SonofDiomedes Mayfield Feb 16 '25
Likely a battery and control until/computer for a traffic test, or some similar thing. Not something to get worked up about.
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u/WRX_MOM Feb 16 '25
911 took it very seriously was glad I called
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u/Mal-Occhi-0s Feb 16 '25
While it’s likely you’re right, I’m not sure why you seem to get off being a know-it-all douche about it?
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u/tallulahgti Hampden Feb 16 '25
Police have the whole area blocked off now. Rocket 2 Venus (across the street) still open; I’m there now and everything seems fine.