Posted on 12/08/2010 10:51:35 AM PST by Dr. Eckleburg
Barring any legal wrangling, widespread evacuations will begin this evening around a North County rental house that authorities plan to burn to ground Thursday morning to dispose of a large illegal stockpile of highly volatile bomb-making chemicals found inside it three weeks ago.
At noon today, attorney Michael Berg, lawyer for renter George Djura Jakubec, is scheduled to ask a federal judge to halt the burning because there could be documents and other evidence in the house that could aid in his client's defense.
Exactly how anyone would go about gathering the potential evidence from the home that bomb experts say is too dangerous to enter is unclear, Berg told The San Diego Union-Tribune.
Assuming the judge turns down Berg's request, residents of about six dozen addresses around the cordoned-off home in the 1900 block of Via Scott in unincorporated Escondido will vacate the neighborhood, starting at 7 p.m.
(Excerpt) Read more at sandiego.com ...
Ping.
How convenient for the prosecutors.
Talk about a fishy sounding story.
Something stinks about this story.
Weird. Just very weird.
I have done a lot of hazmat clean-up work and burning this kind of stuff is the LAST thing you want to even have happen.
Contaminate the whole neighborhood, chemical cloud coating everything...
Something isn’t right here.
—don’t believe anything the media or the government tells you about explosives or firearms-—
They can’t deal with the chemicals inside, so they’re going to set fire to the house, exposing untold thousands to toxic fumes, and so forth?
I call BS.
Plus bomb making materials...are they tryin’ to blow up the whole city?
I’m sure nothing can possibly go wrong! Big Badda Boom!
And no, there's nothing "fishy" about the story. This guy has spent way too much time playing with chemicals in his suburban home, and in the process, has created an enormous amount of highly-unstable, yet incredibly explosive compound. There's not way to clear out the materials without risking a massive explosion. So, the most prudent public safety solution is to evacuate and burn it to the ground.
Probably some terrorists smuggled across the Mexican border were renters. Wonder why they abandoned it? Already made what they needed?
So FIRE and HEAT...
Sorry, can’t convince me this is going to come off as anything like a controlled burn.
Fine, let him go inside and get them.
Did you read the freakin' story?
Who said anything about it coming off "as a controlled burn"? The place is packed floor to ceiling with UNSTABLE HIGHLY-EXPLOSIVE compounds. If they move some of them, they're certain some will explode. They can't let a house sit in a neighborhood with this kind of volatility. So, the prudent measure is to evacuate people to a safe zone, and hope that the fire will burn the chemicals, rather than acting as a catalyst for an explosion. Either way - safe burn, or massive explosion, it's better than letting it go up on its own, or when someone is inside trying to remove the materials.
It's a risk, but it's the most managed risk.
I guess you just rather leave them there, and put up a no-trespassing sign.
I read the story. It doesn't mention who owns the house, only the name of the renter.
Honestly, doc, did you read the story that you posted, at all?
He's not Syrian. He has an ethic Slovakian, not Arab. For those that don't know, Slovakia is comprised almost entirely of Catholics or Eastern Orthodox citizens (or Atheists). No Syrians, no Arabs, no Muzzies.
The renter is Serbian.
I’m sure all of you remember when the city of Philadelphia, in a botched attempt to arrest militant MOVE members, dropped a bomb on their house. As a result, five children and six adults were killed and 61 homes were burned down!
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