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I thought this was Hemet in Afghanistan.... :-(
as a rule, when you post stuff like this it is really, really good to put the location in the headline as in (CA) or somesuch. because most everyone has never heard of this place.
Some heads-up thinking saved some lives here.
As Squantos says: Stay Safe!
California becomes Venezuela?
Explode in Helmet?
I don't get it, you walk in and smell gas, you turn off the gas, what does it mean "It was basically designed so that once somebody came in and moved around a little bit, it would have gone off,"?
Once I went with a friend to evict a tenant, no one answered the door but I thought that I smelled gas, so I told my friend, "let's go back downstairs and turn it off at the meter, fetch a ladder and go through a window (in case the door was rigged)", it just wasn't a big deal.
I think this will qualify for the stupidest act of 2009. Just in time, too.
Good grief. What drivel. They were "saved" by their noses when they went in and smelled the damn gas. The End.
The story doesn’t really describe what was “rigged.” Was is just a gas leak?
Pulled into Hemet at 3AM after a 10hr drive
from NorCal. Got a room and was up and on my way
to pick up a kid to take back to a NorCal group
home by 9:30AM. This was a couple of summers
ago.
What I can’t understand is within the vast
area of what the SoCalers refer to as the
Inland Empire with countless communities
and millions of people why would anybody
be interested in wiping out a gang task
force in a podunk town like Hemet? What
about Riverside, San Bernardino, Redlands?
If Hemet is ground zero I hope I don’t
ever have to go back.........
Gang Task Force headquarters?
Sounds like it could have been a script for “The Shield”.
I used to fly out to Hemet years ago when I was taking flying lessons out of Long Beach. Not much out there.
I worked in the building next door to the business of a nutjob who had rigged it to blow up by opening the gas valves or whatever and setting up candles I think it was. Then he went and killed his family and his dog, drove out of town and eventually shot himself when the cops started to catch up with him. The cops said if he had been successful it would have taken out his building plus ours and the one on the other side at least. These were pretty old buildings. They evacuated the whole block if I recall correctly. I couldn’t start my car (parked on the street), they wouldn’t let anybody do anything.
Really glad no-one was hurt, and that gas companies put that rotten-egg smell in the gas lines!
there is no doubt the trap was meant for members of the Hemet/San Jacinto Valley Gang Task Force
We have a couple who cleans our house one day a week, and two weeks ago my wife came in two hours they had left I and I came in 40 minutes later. When they had bee cleaning the stove they somehow turned one of the burners on without lighting it. So it was going for at least two hours.
But have propane for the first time (about a year now) and it doesn’t smell like natural gas so my wife couldn’t figure out what it was. She thought it was something that might have burned in the self-cleaning oven. The first thing I asked when I walked in was if she had burned broccoli since that’s what it smelled like. When my nose finally took me to the source I was furious. I can’t imagine what would have happened if they had done this when we were on vacation in October. There’s a pilot light in the fireplace in the family room but fortunately the house is really large and that fireplace is raised a foot and a half higher than the floor.
Someone needs to invent an inexpensive gas detector like a smoke alarm that triggers a shut-off valve.
I see at least one Free Republic pro-violent gangster sympathizer has shown up on this thread.