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'Dry ice bombs' planted at Los Angeles airport
The Telegraph ^ | 10-15-2013

Posted on 10/15/2013 9:35:24 AM PDT by markomalley

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To: headstamp 2

Well, the neck expands and keeps the cap on oddly enough.
Freaky, the thick plastic of the two liter bottles works real well for that, but it is noisy.


21 posted on 10/15/2013 10:00:08 AM PDT by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
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To: markomalley
Let's not get excited, everybody. This dry ice bomb problem is easily remedied. One, the government should put up huge signs that say "No Dry Ice Permitted." That will stop anyone from bringing dry ice into the area.

Two, the government should establish an agency to restrict the manufacture, distribution, and purchase of dry ice. Give this agency arrest powers. And a SWAT team. And the authority to shoot suspicious dogs.

Simple, no?

22 posted on 10/15/2013 10:02:27 AM PDT by Leaning Right (Why am I holding this lantern? I am looking for the next Reagan.)
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To: Leaning Right
huge signs that say "No Dry Ice Permitted."

Press 1 for Arabic?

23 posted on 10/15/2013 10:04:28 AM PDT by MUDDOG
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To: Leaning Right

Problem solved with your two step scenario. Always some humor in truth. Thanks.


24 posted on 10/15/2013 10:06:38 AM PDT by Tudorfly
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To: FreedomStar3028
This is series; I'm Stuned!
25 posted on 10/15/2013 10:07:23 AM PDT by 70times7 (Serving Free Republics' warped and obscure humor needs since 1999!)
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To: Darksheare

Yes, terrific affect. I just remember the aluminum bottle caps blowing off all the time with soda.

Hell, that one looks like you could get a little shrapnel from it.


26 posted on 10/15/2013 10:07:35 AM PDT by headstamp 2 (What would Scooby do?)
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To: headstamp 2

Yes, the plastic bits do hurt.
It is more of an annoyance/distraction ‘weapon’.
It isn’t deadly, but it is annoying enough to require attention.
Which lets someone do something elsewhere.


27 posted on 10/15/2013 10:10:07 AM PDT by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
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To: Uncle Miltie

MRE “bombs” were a lot of fun and not terribly dangerous, too. We’d stuff a MRE heater into a plastic water bottle, seal it up, and then move back until the bottle exploded from the pressure buildup. They were amazing loud but not very destructive.

At least one group of guys tried a much larger MRE “bomb” using a 5 gallon water jug and a substantial quantity of heaters. That one was a real bruiser—a real base wake up call. Soon after, a general order banned the practice.

The MRE heater “bombs” were great fun on those long, boring deployments to the desert—a decade or more of US military “blood and treasure” wasted on Saddam, interrupted briefly only when President Clinton wanted to wag the dog.


28 posted on 10/15/2013 10:18:55 AM PDT by CitizenUSA (Conservatives are not anarchists!)
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To: CitizenUSA

Did that to our dumpster, tossed the MRE heater bomb in, and ran like heck.
Someone called the cops and claimed someone was lighting off a 9mm in the road.


29 posted on 10/15/2013 10:30:11 AM PDT by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
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To: markomalley

Maybe it is probing of the security defenses or maybe it is a proof of concept to disperse a biological weapon such as a sporulate, lethal, bacteria.


30 posted on 10/15/2013 10:45:21 AM PDT by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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To: Darksheare

My kid bombs were dangerous.
Aluminum pie pan
Some kerosene
a lacquer spray paint can

Put the can in the pan, light the kero, and run. Big fireball, and giant mess!


31 posted on 10/15/2013 10:46:21 AM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: markomalley

Fire all Muslim and “black Muslim” workers and the issue will go away.


32 posted on 10/15/2013 10:49:40 AM PDT by GladesGuru (Islam Delenda Est - Because of what Islam is and because of what Muslims do.)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

Technicolor mess if I’m guessing right.


33 posted on 10/15/2013 10:49:44 AM PDT by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

If your mom is still walking this earth you need to call her right now and tell her you love her.

When he was 4 or 5, hubby managed to set his bed on fire with purloined matches.


34 posted on 10/15/2013 10:50:01 AM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: Black Agnes; Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

My parents wonder why I haven’t subjugated the planet yet.
I figure “What’s the fun in that?”


35 posted on 10/15/2013 10:51:27 AM PDT by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
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To: Darksheare

LOL.

I’m just wondering how these places that aren’t accessible to the public happen to also be not covered by a surveillance camera...

Perhaps these bottles were in the employee bathrooms?

Otherwise, somebody knows who did it.


36 posted on 10/15/2013 10:53:48 AM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: Black Agnes

Exactly.
I’m betting they know who did it, but aren’t saying.
It would remove the possibility of running in circles and flapping their hands in a panic.


37 posted on 10/15/2013 10:55:43 AM PDT by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
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To: Darksheare

Well that. And turning it into another excuse to grope children and nuns.


38 posted on 10/15/2013 10:56:52 AM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: Black Agnes

“Never let a crisis go to waste” even the manufactured ones.


39 posted on 10/15/2013 10:58:45 AM PDT by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
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To: Darksheare

Airports are noisy places, and that gave me the idea that perhaps they weren’t planted at all, but thrown there.

Buddy and I use to fling all kinds of stuff back in our college days with a two person water balloon slingshot. How close could a couple of guys get to where they detonated at from a parking lot or other unsecured location? Lots of idiots would love to go home and hear all about their little prank on the news.


40 posted on 10/15/2013 11:09:05 AM PDT by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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