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Posted on 08/21/2008 5:13:56 PM PDT by NavyCanDo
CENTRALIA, Wash. - An explosive device with the potential to deliver "an incredible amount of destructive power" was found alongside tracks leading to Lewis County's Trans Alta mine on Wednesday, officials said. The Lewis County Sheriff's Office said the device was found by a Trans Alta employee who did not recognize it as a bomb and transported it in a rail truck to turn over to the supervisor. The device was a five-gallon propane tank with green and yellow wires coming out the tank. The wires were similar to those used in electrical blasting caps.
After arriving at the scene, the bomb squad x-rayed the tank, and removed a blasting cap from the device. The blasting cap had been activated but the powder inside the tank for unknown reasons had not detonated.
When asked whether he believed a coal-fired power plant about a mile away could've been the target, Mansfield said investigators have not ruled out any possibilities.
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I'd consider laying someone that dumb off. Seriously.
Or at least vote them in as a Congressman.
Oh, c'mon. Unless it's a pocket nuke (or there is something I don't know), all incredulity (or credulousness) belongs to the clueless reporter.
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I prefer battered to breaded.
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Someone like that could easily get elected to a major office in Maine....
Yep, sounds like a greenie.
He is lucky to be here still.
Also if it went off during his transporting it he might have been unable to defend his dumb innocense of just taking the thing to the boss.
Ah, I see my guess at post #8 was correct.
Yep, it would make a pretty good fire ball if detonated.
Well, we can deduce that with his stunning intellect he is a likely Obambi supporter.
Poor Timothy McVeigh. He didn't need to rent and fill that big truck with explosives after all. He could have just dropped a 5-gallon bag in a trashcan and gotten away scot free. / sarc
The press is SO STUPID today. (That or just dishonest. Or I'll entertain the possibility that it's both.)
If Guy Fawkes had only known he could have scaled down his scheme and maybe gotten away with it.
Hey, maybe 4 gallons would have done it.
Or three.
Or one.
Fortunately, I was about two hundred feet away and was able to duck behind a stack of 4x4's, because it was raining pieces of propane tank, forklift, and shredded 2x4's all over the lumberyard.
Luckily, the driver had gotten off the forklift a moment earlier to answer a phone call, otherwise he would have been sitting right there when it went off.
The state fire inspector later figured out that the tank was leaking and the vapors were ignited by a short in one of the tail lights located next to the tank.
Bomb disposal guys must just love all these do-it-yourself imbeciles.
I remember some DIY explosive that was popular just a few years ago, mostly because it was easy to make in a home refrigerator. But what they didn’t mention was that it was about as unstable as crystallized nitroglycerin. It was mostly made by fools who thought they were making cool firecrackers or something.
One idiot actually called the police over some petty thing. When they showed up they saw a pile of white powder on his kitchen table. “Oh, that’s not drugs,” he told them, “that’s some ‘flash powder’ I made.”
This did not make things “all better”, for some reason.
It took HAZMAT half a day to clean out the place.
That driver can thank that caller that he’s still alive, that was close.
It’s amazing that more accidents like that don’t happen with the number of propane tanks on forklifts and now the gas fired barbques.
The valve on those BBQ tanks was modified a few years ago to eliminate leaking (or at least minimise it). All old tanks had to be swapped out/replaced.
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