Pith I-Team Investigation: The Mystery of the Shelbyville E-Bomb Explosion

Did one of those scary electromagnetic pulse bombs really go off outside Shelbyville a couple of years ago? That’s the question that’s captivated all of us here at Pith in the Wind World Headquarters since state

during a House subcommittee meeting this week.

Womick thinks terrorists have targeted Tennessee state lawmakers, and he was explaining why the state Office of Homeland Security ought to obtain top-secret security clearances for certain special members of the legislature, presumably including Womick, so they can prepare themselves to go to undisclosed secure locations to survive an attack.

“How many of you have ever heard of an electromagnetic pulse bomb?” Womick asked the subcommittee nonchalantly as if he were introducing a resolution honoring Miss Mule Day.

“An electromagnetic pulse bomb is similar to a nuclear bomb that goes off,” he explained to his puzzled colleagues. “It wipes out everything electronically. We had one go off just down outside of Shelbyville. It’ll be two years ago this summer.”