L0L a 5 gal tank of propane for the BBQ?
The device, consisting of 200 liters of fuel, gas cylinders and nails linked to a triggering mechanism, was found in a car in Haymarket, in the city’s busy nightclub and theater district shortly before 2 a.m. (0100 GMT) on Friday.
Ideal bomb container. Put fins on it and paint it OD and you would have a WWII bomb.
THe Bali bomb used propane tanks, as did the one that destroyed the Marine Barracks in Lebanon. If you can rapidly saturate an area with explosive gas, it seeps into every nook and cranny (thus turning the bulding itself into a bomb) and detonate it, the devastation is pretty bad.
Nothing funny about it.
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/crime/article2720814.ece
Whitehall sources said that the police and security services were looking at possible international links - including similarities to car bombs used by insurgents in Iraq.
You get my vote for most ridiculous post of the day.
I thought only adults were on this site?
Inside officers discovered a “significant quantity” of petrol, nails and gas cylinders. They used a remote-controlled device to check the vehicle before bomb squad officers made it safe.
If the bomb had exploded, police said that the shrapnel would have killed or injured anyone within a wide area. The bomb itself could have caused a fireball as big as a house followed by a large shock wave.
LOL, Indeed!