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Man sought over toilet explosion after device goes off in McDonalds restroom
news.com.au ^ | 25th October 2010

Posted on 10/24/2010 9:24:52 PM PDT by naturalman1975

A SMALL home-made device exploded in a toilet in the restroom of a fast food outlet in western Sydney but no one was injured, police say.

The device was detonated in the men's toilet cubicle at a McDonald's restaurant on High St in Penrith at around 9.10pm (AEDT) yesterday.

"The explosion damaged the toilet cistern and an air vent," NSW police said today in a statement.

"There was nobody in the restroom at the time.

"The remnants of a crudely made explosive device was found and taken for forensic examination."

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TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bathroom; explosion; explosivedevice; explosives; homemadeexplosives; mcdonalds; toilet; toiletbomb
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1 posted on 10/24/2010 9:24:53 PM PDT by naturalman1975
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To: naturalman1975

A whole new meaning to thunder box...


2 posted on 10/24/2010 9:28:29 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: naturalman1975

It isn’t that unusual to have an explosion in the toilet after eating at McDonald’s. I take it thisbis McRib season again?


3 posted on 10/24/2010 9:29:50 PM PDT by USNBandit (sarcasm engaged at all times)
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To: naturalman1975

Big Mac Attack.


4 posted on 10/24/2010 9:32:16 PM PDT by o-n-money
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To: naturalman1975

The Suspect

5 posted on 10/24/2010 9:32:56 PM PDT by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.8)
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To: naturalman1975
Another Texas Aggie shooting craps?
6 posted on 10/24/2010 9:33:26 PM PDT by Zakeet (Like the wise Wee Wee said, "We can't be broke ... we still have checks in the checkbook.")
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To: naturalman1975

Kids used to flush M80’s down the toilets in my highschool a few times a year.


7 posted on 10/24/2010 9:35:51 PM PDT by esoxmagnum
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To: USNBandit

Thisbis is a word I just invented, as in “thisbis was typbed onba myba iBPadb”. Of course this time around it auto corrected all those words when I tried to type them on purpose. It’s a Mushmouth tribute moment.


8 posted on 10/24/2010 9:36:09 PM PDT by USNBandit (sarcasm engaged at all times)
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To: USNBandit

I take it thisbis McRib season again?
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McRib season starts Nov 2 in the NYC area(no bs). All of the major crap and McRib will be over by Jan 1.


9 posted on 10/24/2010 9:41:10 PM PDT by o-n-money
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To: USNBandit
I have that a bit on my Dell Streak.

Small price to pay to be able to Freep any time, anywhere.

10 posted on 10/24/2010 9:41:25 PM PDT by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.8)
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To: o-n-money; All

Fitting that November 2 is both election and McRib day. America deserves sane governance and a tasty sandwich.


11 posted on 10/24/2010 9:46:40 PM PDT by eater-of-toast ("It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones." -- Calvin Coolidge)
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To: naturalman1975
'Every Halloween, the trees are filled with underwear. Every spring, the toilets explode.'
12 posted on 10/24/2010 9:53:13 PM PDT by Ken H
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To: esoxmagnum

1968

I and the rest of our football team snuck into the opposing high schools gymnasium on the night of their pep rally.

This school had been built in the thirties and it was built entirely of wood.

Well we stole into the gyms locker room and ‘flushed’ a couple of M-80’s down each of the six toilets.

For a minute .. nothing seemed to happen.

All of sudden .. a rumble starts under the old wooden floor boards and you’d have thought that an earth quake was starting.

Water gushing up out of the toilets, floors buckling and .. The next thing you know .. The damn dividing wall between the locker room commodes and the gymnasium itself .. “FALLS”!

We were standing there looking out at some of the most stunned and angry looking crowd of faces that you’d never want to see!

Needless to say .. We hauled our butts out of there with about 200 alum .. right behind us!


13 posted on 10/24/2010 9:56:41 PM PDT by plinyelder ("I've noticed that everybody that is for abortion has already been born." -- Ronald Reagan)
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To: esoxmagnum
"Kids used to flush M80’s down the toilets in my highschool a few times a year."

I'm a bit ashamed to say I was one of the little SOB's who did this once. Seemed like a fun thing to do at the time, but I felt pretty guilty after the fact (not enough to confess, however).

Never in a million years would I have guessed homeland security and BATF would come after us for pulling a stupid prank. We were having too much fun to think about the thousands of dollars in damage it caused.

That's why I pray every day for the lord's forgiveness... I was a little bit... "adventurous" when I was younger.

14 posted on 10/24/2010 9:59:17 PM PDT by FunkyZero ("It's not about duck hunting !")
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To: naturalman1975

Wolf down two big cheeseburgers and you’ll blow the toilet into orbit.

Eat slowly and chew your food thoroughly. MAMA


15 posted on 10/24/2010 9:59:36 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: plinyelder

haha, that’s a great one. We didn’t have any of that, but I know it would cause the pipes to leak in the basement. I went to a very large HS in Chicago (Lane Tech for those in our region), but it would make a huge ruckus and a water mess!

Now, also, being in the city, I heard our M80’s were the cheap ones... you had to go south to get the “good ones”.

But then again, I used to hear that the good beer was “Coors”, until a few folks made the smokey and the bandit run out west and brought some back. Bleh.

Thanks for the chuckle, reminded me of a scene that shoulda been in Porkys, and I can only imagine!


16 posted on 10/24/2010 10:07:34 PM PDT by esoxmagnum
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To: FunkyZero

Yeah, there is zero tolerance for pranks any more. Our graduating class put live goldfish in them big fruit punch dispensers in the cafeteria.

I think they’d have you committed now for endangering fish or some nonsense.


17 posted on 10/24/2010 10:09:48 PM PDT by esoxmagnum
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To: FunkyZero
"I'm a bit ashamed to say I was one of the little SOB's who did this once. Seemed like a fun thing to do at the time, but I felt pretty guilty after the fact (not enough to confess, however)."

I never flushed one down the toilet. What I did do is put one under a garbage can that was empty and turned over. No damage but it was fun.

18 posted on 10/24/2010 10:13:21 PM PDT by blackbart.223 (I live in Northern Nevada. Reid doesn't represent me.)
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To: esoxmagnum
Thanks for the chuckle, reminded me of a scene that shoulda been in Porkys, and I can only imagine!

Yeah, Funny as hell NOW but it wasn't so great back then! LOL

Does it count that this happened in the same state as Porky's?
I 'think' that Porky's was filmed partially in the Keys?

The high school that I was talking about was in Fort Lauderdale.
(Both .. South Florida)

19 posted on 10/24/2010 10:25:28 PM PDT by plinyelder ("I've noticed that everybody that is for abortion has already been born." -- Ronald Reagan)
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To: MrEdd

Bunnies are planning to wage war against humans, like they did to ptarmigans.


20 posted on 10/24/2010 10:26:11 PM PDT by Ptarmigan (God Hates Bunnies.)
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