[IMR 4350]

More than likely intended to create a panic.

Somebody reports “man on rooftop with gun” and you have panic city.

They don't know it's just a BB gun until they catch them.

Then it's a big joke that it's just a BB gun.

Idiot leftist believe that since it's just a BB gun nothing much will happen to them when they are caught.

[muawiyah]

Stupid leftists don't run around with burglary tools. These guys had a prybar to open up roof drain systems ~ and the bb gun may just have been there to shoot rats that pop out ~ or they were going to put something in the sewer drains and set it off via some sort of incendiary ignitor fried from a bb gun.

There are materials you can mix, leave, and 45 minutes to an hour later they'll start a fire.

Henry's Chemistry has a lot of them ~ and the internet is a treasuretrove of such information. Kids and professional thieves get arrested for carrying around the ingredients all the time.