Posted on 12/10/2009 4:33:44 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
Trotwood, OH (AHN) - The Wright-Patterson Bomb Squad was deployed to Trotwood Wednesday after a family stumbled upon explosives in a house.
The family was cleaning out a house left behind by a relative who recently died when they found the explosives.
The bomb squad removed what they described as military explosives from the home and took them to a nearby horse park, where it was virtually deserted.
The team then detonated the devices. Officials said there were a lot of military explosives in the house, including smoke bombs. The bomb squad chose an area where winds would not blow debris or smoke east and affect anyone's safety or property.
The detonation went off without a hitch. Police do not know why the owner of the house possessed the ammunition.
Otay!
That mercury is encapsulated in glass tubes. No threat to environment as long as the glass isn’t broken. Older thermostats had larger glass tubes. newer ones had smaller glass tubes. newer yet thermostats have no mercury at all.
the small glass tubes had maybe 1/4 tablespoon mercury each. A coffee can full of those things isn’t really all that much. A cup full at most.
When I was a kid, I had a baby food jar half full of mercury in my toybox. I used to take it out and play with it on the wood floor.
...putting virtually no one at risk of death.
Hey, Middletown is called Middletown because it is equidistant between Cin City and Dayton.
If they wanted to “go to town”, they would go to Centerville, which is half way between, Middletown and Dayton.
Or they would go to Equiville, which is halfway between Middletown and Cincinnati. (Joke)
The folk from Middletown; they like things to be even.
Eye for an eye, kinda folk. Unless you make them mad. Then the rules don’t apply.
Don’t mess with Middletown. They are what they are because they like it like that.
Carry on.
In that case he probably had a few dozen pounds of silver in nitrates laying around as well.
“Officials said there were a lot of military explosives in the house, including smoke bombs”
Oh boy not smoke bombs !!!!!
I’m sure it was all turned over to the proper authorities.
LOL
But it's still better than the original version.
For example:
The bomb squad removed what they described as military explosives from the home and took them to a nearby horse park, where it was virtually deserted.
Was (apparently) edited to read:
The bomb squad removed the military explosives from the undisclosed neighborhood to a nearby horse park on Snyder Road, where there was lots of open space.
And:
The team then detonated the devices. Officials said there were a lot of military explosives in the house, including smoke bombs. The bomb squad chose an area where winds would not blow debris or smoke east and affect anyone's safety or property.
which is pretty much unintelligible, was (apparently) edited to read:
Strong winds played a role in where to detonate the devices, so experts chose a spot the debris would blow east and not affect anyone’s safety or property.
Neither is good, but the original version was apparently written by a 6th grade Special Education student, while the second/WHIO editor had a least a semester of Journalism, in middle school.
It’s funny because it is true!
It’s a disciplined profession at WHIO!
I remembered after I posted the story last night that they gave him a bit of a hard time when he turned it in, questioning him as to whether he might be a terrorist (you'd have to meet this guy to realize that he's a terrorist like Harry Reid's a comedian).
My Dad had a small Tupperware container of liquid Mercury on his workbench for I don’t know how many years. We kids were fascinated with it and played with it (actually touched it) as often as he’d let us.
I’ll have to ask him what became of that. He probably flushed it down the john when we moved from Milwaukee, LOL!
We had a house covered in asbestos shingles. No problems so far except for this pesky second head I’ve been growing, LOL!
How did ANY of us make it to adulthood without the Nanny Staters saving us from ourselves? ;)
What the heck would a terrorist do with a can of mercury?
Why the heck would anyone break those glass tubes?
He broke the glass tubes to get the mercury inside. As far as why a terrorist would have mercury: it’s a poison in its natural state (not enough to do much damage in a coffee can full), it can be used for mercury switches (move something, the mercury flows inside a tube and closes a circuit, setting off a bomb), and it can be used to create mercury fulminate, a powerful explosive (used to be used for primers in ammunition).
HELLO?!
A thermostat IS A MERCURY SWITCH. ya, make mercury switches out of mercury acquired from breaking open mercury switches. that makes great sense.
When you turn that much mercury into the EPA, they don’t know you got it from thermostats, until you tell them.
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