www.esryle.com
Posted on 06/08/2004 1:24:15 PM PDT by esryle
TITUSVILLE, Fla. -- A 69-year-old man faces charges Tuesday for allegedly making and detonating acid bombs in the street where he lives, according to a report..
Roelof Sage Schanck of the 100 block of Jackson Street remained at the Brevard County Detention Center on Monday night on $1,000 bond. Schanck was charged with making, possessing or discharging a destructive device -- a third-degree felony.
Titusville Police spokesman Warren Van Vuren said neighbors told officers that acid bombs, often concocted by teens with household materials, had been exploding at Schanck’s home for two weeks, according to Local 6 News partner Florida Today.
The Sheriff’s Office bomb squad confiscated all bomb-making material. Schanck was arrested without incident.
"It is unknown how Schanck learned how to make these bombs, or exactly why he was detonating them in his driveway," Van Vuren said.
*Blink blink*
A 69 year old guy making acid bombs and blowing them up in his driveway?
Makes one ask why he was doing so, but it seems there may not be an answer to that.
Wasn't there an unsolved murder or so that was done with an acid bomb?
(I ad to re-read the article to make sure they weren't LSD bombs. Which would have been interesting in a twisted way.)
LOL
We used to make these things back when I was a kid.
Get a quart sized mason jar. Pour it about half full of vinigar.
Wrap up a handful of baking soda in toilet paper and glue to the inside of the lid.
Let glue dry then screw the lid on TIGHT.
Handle carefully, when ready turn jar on it's side and run like hell...
Acid bombs....."Why didn't I think of that?"
At what point is an explosive a firework vs a bomb?
I forgot to add the standard disclaimer of 'This is not my fault, keyword doesn't say "Darkshearesfault" anywhere.'
*embarrassed*
I usually have that disclaimer.
Geez, if Homeland Security existed when I was a kid I'd be in Gitmo with all of my friends now.
Me too, a wonder I have survived this long.
One of our favorite stunts was taping 30:06 rounds to the railroad tracks.
An MRE heater crushed up and thrown into a soda bottle and doused in water, capped, and thrown into a dumpster makes a bit of noise.
We used to make those, too-my brother, cousin and I made a horrendous mess (and got busted) with a couple of them we set off on a much disliked neighbor's front porch. But then we nearly blew up my grandmother's upstairs bathroom the same summer with another household chemical concoction I've since forgotten...
And don't forget pouring trails of gunpowder into and leading away from ant nests, lighting the end of the trail and taking cover-KABOOM! Rather effective, if primitive ant control, and environmentally safe...
"When old guys get bored" -- next, on Geraldo!
Is that what they're talkin about? I'll bet it makes a nice pop but it's hardly a bomb.
Dont know for sure but thats' what we always called an "acid bomb"
The article said "common household materials" so I assumed that was what it is.
They were lots of fun for kids, but cant imagine an adult doing that stuff
Me too. Wonder what they'd have thought of our filling the then unspiked Civil War cannons with spuds, charging them with homemade gunpowder and unofficially reenacting the Battle of Atlanta in the middle of the night?
The guy's probably just bored. Have you seen the state of daytime TV these days?
S'okay!
I fixed you up!
;-P
And here I was getting all warm and fuzzy about something NOT being my fault for once.
];-O (Devlish singing)
I didn't want you to get confused!
;-)
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