Aw, he's just a harmless hobbyist. It's just that his hobby is explosives.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2...trange-day-in/
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Aw, he's just a harmless hobbyist. It's just that his hobby is explosives.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2...trange-day-in/
“We had people back there cutting weeds. It’s kind of a strange situation.”Quote:
Originally Posted by KJ6BSO
#1 indication that perhaps everything is not as normal as it appears--scraps of metal strewn about in the backyard.Quote:
“He seems to be real nice,” Garcia said. “Once in a while, not often, we talked and chatted.”
Garcia said the backyard didn’t seem suspicious or abnormal, although scraps of metal were strewed about.
"A small mushroom cloud rises from the second of six explosions detonated at a home on Via Scott in this view looking east from a driveway on Nutmeg Street. "
reading that cap from the pic. for some reason makes me think of all them nuclear videos DUCK AND COVER!
It's far too strange to be anything sinister.
Chemistry, used to be a hobby when I was a kid and into my teens and you were required at some point during your "hobby hours" to blow up your lab. These days, chemist and lab are all criminal buzz-words.
Many a hobby chemist in the past helped develop better ways of doing things from agriculture to medicine.
Oh shit. He's one of us. :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by KJ6BSO
An update on the original story. Apparently, the guy had quite a lot of an unstable home-brew explosive stashed around the place:
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2...rth-county-ho/
Send his azz to Gitmo!Quote:
It could have been quite devastating,” said Oxley, a chemistry professor at the University of Rhode Island. She said jars of the powder sitting out in the open could have a blast radius of 600 feet.
I think the worst my friends did was to blow a 6 foot crater out in the woods near the gun club. That was a pretty big deal and it was enough to make them realize that it wasn't something that they wanted to keep perusing.
I only played around with more conventional explosives back in my yoot--black powder and various easily-concocted nitrogen compounds. With the help of a buddy who knew a little more about chemistry than I did, I made up a few ounces of thermite once. That was easy, but I found out that takes a fair amount of the stuff if you want to have any real fun with it.