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

    Aw, he's just a harmless hobbyist. It's just that his hobby is explosives.

    http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2...trange-day-in/
    All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.

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    Quote Originally Posted by KJ6BSO View Post
    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.”

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    “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.
    #1 indication that perhaps everything is not as normal as it appears--scraps of metal strewn about in the backyard.
    All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.

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    "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!
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    It's far too strange to be anything sinister.

    "Bacon, Beans and Limousines"
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    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by KJ6BSO View Post
    #1 indication that perhaps everything is not as normal as it appears--scraps of metal strewn about in the backyard.
    Oh shit. He's one of us.

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    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/
    All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.

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    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.
    Send his azz to Gitmo!

    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.

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    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.
    All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.

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