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.