Bomb squad are called out to 'booby-trapped' anti-Kamala sign

A booby-trapped anti-Kamala Harris banner is causing chaos successful Virginia. 

Featuring a caricature of nan vice president, locals fearfulness nan governmental run motion is snared pinch shotgun shells filled pinch gunpowder. 

Residents adjacent to nan run advertisement successful leafy Leesburg, north-east Virginia, called nan explosive squad successful aft increasing concerned astir nan suspicious sign. 

The banner sits connected backstage spot and has since been surrounded by 'no trespassing' placards, but locals are worried it still poses a danger. 

'I recovered nan sign, I recovered a camera to return pictures of group adjacent nan sign, and a instrumentality successful nan woods that appeared to maine to beryllium an improvised explosive device,' Leesburg resident Charles King told FOX 5. 

'It looked homemade, made of shotgun shells and what appeared to beryllium gunpowder.' 

King said he was particularly concerned astir children approaching nan sign, particularly pinch Halloween connected nan horizon. 

Residents raised concerns astir nan motion connected Saturday morning, prompting a Loudoun County Sheriff's Office lawman and occurrence marshals to scour nan scene. 

They were joined by a explosive squad team, who wished that nan instrumentality attached to nan motion was an audible informing device, not an forbidden explosive. 

Sheriff's deputies suggested that nan motion had been vandalized by personification different than nan spot owner, who made efforts to protect it, per FOX 5. 

The deputies recommended erecting nan 'no trespassing' signs arsenic a preventative measure. It is unclear who vandalized nan signs. 

The banner successful mobility shows Harris holding a placard reference 'I helped create this mess!' surrounded by nan words: 'Day 1 for maine was Jan, 2021'.  

In nan build-up to nan 2016 election, akin scenes occurred successful Indiana erstwhile a man booby-trapped a pro-Trump motion successful his beforehand gait to drawback thieves - and it worked. 

The Indianapolis man, who wanted to beryllium identified only arsenic Phillip, said passers-by had doubly tried to bargain nan motion and truthful he took matters into his ain hands.

He jerry-rigged nan motion pinch sportfishing ligament that had been painted greenish and put up a video camera connected a adjacent tree, fresh to drawback nan adjacent thief. 

His efforts paid disconnected erstwhile a female tried to drawback it and tally distant - but nan wires yanked nan motion backmost into place, causing her to autumn connected her face. 

She past fled nan segment without nan sign, but not earlier her embarrassing ordeal was caught connected camera.