Posted on 12/16/2010 9:26:23 AM PST by Doogle
DEVELOPING: Connecticut police and FBI agents are investigating what they say appear to be "improvised explosives" and bomb-making materials found late Wednesday night in a New Haven home.
Firefighters found the materials when they responded to reports of smoke at 17 Hubinger Street, New Haven Police Officer Joe Avery said .
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I never said I would be happy to live next door to it, especially since these dumbasses apparently managed to get the fire dept called due to visible smoke.
But I recognize that there are legitimate hobbies that involve explosives, guns, sharp knives, etc. I respect those things but I am not afraid of them.
I like freedom.
I do not like news media that deliberately over-hype situations in order to get hits or sell papers. Or law enforcement agencies that over-hype situations in order to justify their militaristic techniques and arsenal or to excuse excessive force.
. . . what do you want to bet ???,,,, it’s the Amish again . . .
It’s Abdul again.
What a weird response. How on earth did you extrapolate that?
You asked if there were non-terrorist uses for explosives. It was an idiotic question, but people answered it seriously anyway. There are and there have been for thousands of years.
That fact has nothing to do with anybody's desire to live next door to this person and their explosives. I don't know enough about them to know what kind of neighbors they'd be.
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Sorry - there’s just not enough information in the article.
Living next door to what? There’s absolutely no indication of what ‘what’ is, or how much ‘what’ there was.
There’s a good chance that I do live next door to someone with a lot more ‘what’ than this house had. And yes, I’m perfectly happy with it.
When you are bad at cooking meth, it can involve making bombs, unintentionally.
Perhaps I should have asked if there is a DOMESTIC use for improvised explosive devices. Would that have been less idiotic?
Yes, and IIRC it was New Haven, CT
I'd live next door to them if their daughter was hot.
And she took long luxurious bubble baths.
By the end of the day, Michael Bloomberg will explain that the devices were the work of someone upset about Obamacare.
Yeah, the good guys shouldn’t have bombs.
They’re only for the skilled hands of terrorists dontchaknow.
Didn’t the 9/11 bombers make a trip to CT also? Or was that another state?
fishing
Inside your house?
I suppose if it was a tennager [which I’m sure it is not] and they found explosives in his room, would that be called “terrorism”?
Or if it was a disgruntled employee who was planning on blowing up his office, would that be called “terrorism”? Or somone who built a bomb to blow up his wife in a car?
I’m guessing it WAS terrorism related.
My wife and I were out driving one day and we passed an Islamic Center. She asked me what they do in there, I said “They plot.” We cracked up.
Somewhat, depends on what you mean by domestic. If you mean "using in your house", there would be little non-terrorist uses for explosives. There would also be limited uses for terrorist explosives under that definition.
If, by domestic, you mean non-military, there are many uses for explosives. Construction, demolition, quarrying, mining, etc. For personal uses, depending on your land, you might use explosives to remove tree trunks or varmints. You might blow up a beaver dam that's damaging your property. You might enjoy blowing things up for fun. Apparently, people have fun shooting anvils into the air for kicks. I've never done it. (This being suburban Connecticut, such redneck pursuits seem less likely.)
They may also have been doing something with certain chemicals, legal or illegal, that the police have termed "bomb making materials" because the chemicals have cross purposes.
Or they may have been building bombs for terrorist reasons. Not enough information at this time to tell.
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