Posted on 04/07/2004 6:26:01 AM PDT by chance33_98
Police discover cache of pipe bomb materials in Hillsboro
HILLSBORO, ORE. - Police made a startling discovery Monday evening at a Hillsboro apartment complex. Officers responding to a call found enough explosive materials to make more than 100 pipe bombs inside one of the apartments.
Police also discovered a one-year-old child inside the apartment, which was taken into state custody.
Several nearby apartments had to be evacuated at the complex, which is located at 645 W. Main Street in Hillsboro.
Members from the Portland Bomb Squad were brought in to help dispose of the materials.
A neighbor who spoke with KATU News on Tuesday says she is shocked at what police found.
"This is just sickening. I was scared for the baby, but I know there was drug traffic going on in there. Not just me, but a lot of us neighbors were concerned about it. There was a baby involved. I don't care about them, if they're stupid enough to do something like that, that's on them, but the baby, it's not the baby's fault," Elizabeth Vera-Ceballos said.
"He was manufacturing explosive devices which were fairly small, but there was a significant amount of them which if something bad were to happen, it could create a very dangerous situation." Kerry Alshire with the Hillsboro Police Department told KATU News.
Police took one man into custody - Walter Thurnheer.
He faces charges of child endangerment and possessing explosive devices, as well as possession of marijuana.
KATU News has learned that Thurnheer was convicted in 1998 for manufacture, possession and distribution of a controlled substance.
I'd like to see how they took the apartment into custody ... did it fit in the back of the police car, or did they put it up on wheels like a doublewide mobile home?
He has probably already sold a mess of them to local punks, one of whom will undoubtedly find out that mailbox destruction bites back, painfully. I hope so at least.
As long as the news-reader is pretty, right?
At least they could have said, "who was taken into state custody," if they wanted to refer in some way to the child :-).
Ok...so far so good. An anonymous neighbor....next
"This is just sickening. I was scared for the baby, but I know there was drug traffic going on in there. Not just me, but a lot of us neighbors were concerned about it. There was a baby involved. I don't care about them, if they're stupid enough to do something like that, that's on them, but the baby, it's not the baby's fault," Elizabeth Vera-Ceballos said.
It was much better when it was just an anonymous neighbor. There may be retaliation by druggies now, and they know exactly who ratted them out.
Back around 1990, the editor of my newspaper sent me to address a junior high school English class in connection with *Newspapers in Education* week. I knew several of the kids, a couple of whom were paper deliverers for our rag, and the parents of others with whom I was on friendly or professional terms. I gave them a short presentation on how a daily paper is put together, the high points and downsides of making a living in that business, whether in the editorial, advertising or production end of our racket. It was nicely informal, and they asked some pretty good questions, including a couple who wanted to know if they *had* to go to college to get a job as a reporter.
The part that made all of them happy came when I asked if any of them had to diagram sentences in their English classes, and yep, they admitted that they did. They nearly cheered when I told them that they'd almost certainly never again face that chore once they were out of school, except for a few who went on to newspaper writing jobs, and had to make their point with a picky editor.
I think I scared a couple of them out of future journalism careers with that pronouncement, but it was probably a favour. And at least as recently as 1990, the matter was still being taught.
Closer to M80s, so-called because of their powder charge of 80 grains of black or flash powder.
Thirty seconds per foot is the most common burn rate for 3/32" pyro fuze, 15 seconds for a six-inch section, 7.5 for three inches, and so forth, though rates can vary considerably, and a section at least 200% as long as the delay required should be tested for burn rate.
When in doubt, make it longer.
To paraphrase Churchill, "That is something up with which I will not put!"
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