"He blowed up REAL good!"
Posted on 04/15/2008 2:25:51 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
PUYALLUP, Wash. (AP) - A powerful explosion blew the top off a house where a registered sex offender described as acting paranoid had rented a room and appeared to have been making bombs, deputies said Tuesday. Investigators found a body in the rubble Tuesday morning, Pierce County sheriff's Detective Ed Troyer said. They believe they know the person's identity but did not release details.
He said the couple who owned the house told authorities late Monday they had returned from a trip and found their tenant was acting strangely and making explosive devices.
Troyer said the man was in the kitchen when deputies arrived. He quickly grabbed bottles and a duffel bag containing what the deputies recognized as components of explosive devices and ran upstairs, where he turned on loud music.
Deputies hustled the owners out of the house, and about 10 minutes later it exploded.
"He either accidentally or intentionally set the explosion off, which took the whole top floor off of the residence and engulfed the house in flames," Troyer said.
"This wasn't a little explosion. This was the real deal," he said.
Troyer said the tenant was a 26-year-old registered sex offender.
"He's had some issues with law enforcement over the years," Troyer said, "and actually, from what we're learning, had a rough week leading up to this ... paranoid, changing locks and doing some strange stuff, according to witnesses," he said.
Puyallup is about six miles southeast of Tacoma.
Hoist with his own petard. Literally.
Saved the taxpayersd a load. (except the landlords)
Aw shucks. Ain’t that too bad!
One less sex pervert in the world. Works for me.
One less sex pervert in the world. Works for me.
One less sex pervert in the world. Works for me.
One less DemoLiberal.
This house was destroyed after a homemade bomb blew up in the upstairs area, killing one person. The red car and the green car in the driveway belonged to the suspect bomb maker. Authorities blew off the locks in case the cars contained more explosives.
And BOOM goes the dynamite!
Looks like he was the faster and furiouser type.
Just drop the “up” from the lead. More graphic.
(Sorry, couldn’t resist)
;^)
Probably had those giant-tailpipe loudlers on there too.
At least he didn’t take anyone else out with him...
I once had a moronic tenant that burnt down my house. I used to indulge fantasies of horrible things happening to him.
I feel for these landlords.
“Hey. If you connect that wire HERE instead of There, what do you suppose . . . .”
I hope their insurance covers this. It might not if they don’t have tenant insurance.
Makes one wonder what the bombs were intended for.
A lucky break, I should think, that somebody noticed and it stopped whatever this guy was up to.
Hmm. OK, that’s gonna call for a little more than some spackling and a fresh coat of paint...
He was just doing his part to stimulate the economy.
Probably. I call those “towel rack cars.” Every time I see one, I want to hang a pair of panty hose over the rear fin. When the car also has a giant tailpipe, I think the owner should just put a bumper sticker on the car that says “I have a small d!ck” It would be more subtle.
What was his choice in loud music?
ROPer or just the average Western culture sex offender, he still gets a point for scoring his "own goal."
Complete the package by adding a giant air filter and lowering it so it now has virtually no suspension. Great, now you have a bone-jarring, loud, over-lean mouse motor with a wing. It's very impressive at McDonald's.
Kids these days have no clue of teenage cars of decades past, which actually had grossly-excessive horsepower to go with the loud muffler.
Detective Troyer ?
WA ping....
Just like wearing their pants half way down their ass, this only informs others that you're an idiot.
IMO.
...a poor player who struts and frets his life upon the stage, then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. Of course, Hamlet was talking about life, but you get the idea. Lots of noise, not much to back it up.
“There might be more bombs in the trunk of this here car! Blast a hole in there Jake. Let’s take a look.”
Wonder what pushed him over the edge. Harrassment? Lucky nobody else got hurt.
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