Originally posted by chemoleo
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Not for the first time, I wonder whether feds (that goes for all in the western world essentially, but particularly in the US since they like to be
dramatic) just like to play with toys, and deem a 'controlled explosion' safer than quenching, since this is what they are paid and trained for. Come
on! Even if it was in plastic jars, they could submerge this into a water tank, and carry it outside, to detonate it at some other place!
[Edited on 24-7-2006 by chemoleo] |
You're correct in this assertion you know. When I was about 14, the cops came through our apartment on an unrelated matter (Structural inspection!)
and, for some reason, went right to my bedroom. Here they found some 2 dozen bags of pyro essentials from the now defunct Square Lake Enterprises, all
plainly labeled and weighed. They found 1 single flash powder salute in the form of a pipe. They freaked when they saw this and said all the parafin
wax cubes I had laying about were C-4! HA! The cop trying to confiscate the "pipe bomb" didn't know what to do. He had a bag in hand and was dancing
around like a girl. I grabbed the "bomb", tossed it in the bag he held and he about shit himself right there. He berated me for that one a bit. ;-)
The local cops called in the bomb squad and another county's cops. About 30 quacking geese in my bedroom snooping. The bomb squad disposed of my
little item before proper documentation could be made. They had to give back all my equipment but seized Weingart's "Pyrotechnics" book as evidence..
They left all of my illegal commercial fireworks too!
I went to Juvenile Hall for a month and a half pending investigation on charges of manufacture and possession of explosives.... 3 lawyers later &
with the local head honcho of the Bomb Squad as the DA's witness, they couldn't conclusively prove what kind of risk, if any, such a device posed to
the general public while in my possession.
The judge liked me, I quoted several passages from Weingart by heart at her command and I caught the Bomb Squad asshole lying on the stand. The
charges were dropped.
Their haste set me free.  Good thing too! I was facing up to 20 years on each of
3 counts! 
Assholes.
[Edited on 31-7-2006 by Misanthropy] |
(I don't go into details here). One of the ingredients was NaOH. After a few incidents with these crofty bombs, many shops were hesitant to sell NaOH,
especially to young male persons. There even was a short discussion about prohibiting the sale of NaOH, but fortunately that discussion died away
quickly after the incidents with crofty bombs stopped. But you see how easily a certain very useful chemical can be taken from the shelves because of
some stupid actions of stupid k3wls.
