"This thing has weird written all over it..."

[KG4CGC]

Yep, back then, you could buy everything you needed at the drug store. I even remember seeing black powder and one gallon jugs of 95% ethyl alcohol.

[NQ6U]

The guy is wack; turns out that not only was he nabbed for shoplifting at Wal-Mart, he's a suspected bank robber as well. I'm glad he's out of circulation.

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2...aigned-monday/

[N2CHX]

Wow. There are some real nutjobs out there.

Most explosive things I've ever played with is hooking up electrolytic caps backwards.

[kb2vxa]

Yeah, I too was the terror of my neighborhood when I was a kid, Igor... I mean Kevin across the street was my faithful assistant. Copper wires in the trees, aluminium poles everywhere with explosions and smoke by day and flashing lights with big electric arcs by night reminded them of a castle on the mountain above the village of Frankenstein. To borrow a bit of a Zappa tune; the neighbors on the right sat and watched them every night, I bet you'd do the same if they was you.

So it's weird huh? What's weird is nobody ever taught Harry Jones sentence composition and grammar or he was asleep in back of the English class. Couple that with the fact he among journalists hasn't the sense God gave a goose and you have nonsense like this:
"The Mason jars were placed in holes dug in the ground by bomb experts Friday and then detonated with counter charges. Officials weren’t sure if the compound itself would explode — it did not..."
OK, somehow I was under the impression that when an explosive is detonated it explodes.

"Even a very small amount of the compound can do damage, as seen by the injuries to the gardener — Mario Garcia, 49, of Fallbrook. Nine pounds of the explosive is a “very significant amount,” Caldwell said."
That makes me wonder what they were trying to accomplish by setting off 9 pounds of the stuff.

“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 guess I found the answer, urban renewal the easy way.

“There is no legitimate reason for him to have it there,” Oxley said."
Of course, leveling the neighborhood is a crime... except when the feds do it... Waco.

“We were in the backyard and we felt the earth move. It was really a loud boom,” Nugent said Friday."
Women tend to describe an orgasm that way, you know what she and George were doing!

"Wow. There are some real nutjobs out there."
Spot on Kelli, plenty involved with this story but only one was arrested.

[NQ6U]

"There is no legitimate reason for him to have it there; Oxley said."
Of course, leveling the neighborhood is a crime... except when the feds do it... Waco.

Or the Philadelphia cops do it... MOVE.

[N2NH]

Most explosive thing I ever owned were a pair of Lafayette HA-15 walkie-talkies that had a NiCad battery problem. They'd blow up like blockbusters after 2-3 years of use. Woke me up like an alarm clock at 5:45AM one morning before school. Shook like a leaf all day. Amazingly, the metal case of the 2 watt CB walkie-talkies were bent back into shape and you couldn't tell they had a major explosion in them. Try that with an Icom/Kenwood/Alinco/Yaesu 2band HT.

[kb2vxa]

I wouldn't call that explosion major. Had it been the doctor picking shrapnel out of you would have precluded your going to school. No, I really wouldn't try it AT ALL and next time don't overcharge the batteries.

[NQ6U]

The saga of our local bomb factory continues:

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2...factory-house/

In short, local authorities have decided that it's too dangerous to try and clean up the house so they're going to just burn it down. This may turn out to be Big Fun, since they've admitted that some of the stuff within could detonate.

Does this make anyone else think of the Philadelphia MOVE debacle?

[w3bny]

Meh... come up here to the Marylands.. where you can find all sorts of things in your back yard. Mustard, Lewisite, shells filled with said stuff...

[N2CHX]

Meh... come up here to the Marylands.. where you can find all sorts of things in your back yard. Mustard, Lewisite, shells filled with said stuff...

I ventured into Maryland once. No offense but it seemed dirty and the drivers were insane.