Posted on 10/16/2013 6:03:53 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
An ill-advised attempt to break into a safe with a welding torch wound up costing two men their lives.
According to investigators in New Hampshire, the thieves were using a welding torch to crack open the safe when they accidentally set off fireworks stored inside.
Police say the two were trying to open up the four-foot-high, concrete-lined safe with an oxyacetylene torch at a landscaping shop when the explosion occurred.
WCVB reports the resulting explosion was so powerful that it blew the huge safe through the building, landing it outside.
Investigators don't believe the men knew there were fireworks inside the safe. Lucas Bourke and Ethan Keeler, both 21, were killed in the blast.
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They’ll have a hard time proving it was the illegal ones.
Actually, that's a pretty good idea. Put a sticker on the outside of a safe that says, "Danger--Fireworks Stored Inside. The use of a torch to open the safe could result in serious injury or death." Subtitle--"Are you feeling lucky, punk?"
Looks like they Set Them Up The Bomb real good!
Any forensic investigator worthy of the title will be able to identify the fireworks and the owner has already stipulated as much. Commercial grade fireworks do not have all the bright packaging retail fireworks have and the building, while damaged, was not burned to the ground. If they were retail fireworks, one would expect to find lots of shredded packaging.
That would be a thought crime and impossible to prove. I may start
storing 10-lbs of powder and some primers in my safe. To keep it
safe and dry of course.
I like to think that just for a couple of seconds, he stood there motionless while micro-fractures spread rapidly across his entire blackened body, and then he blinked twice before collapsing into a pile of rubble.
That would be a thought crime and impossible to prove.
Yeah. Especially since it is easy to make the case that he was storing them in the safest place he knew.
I was just thinking of the guy who’s shop got burglarized so many times he set up a booby trap with a shotgun at a “burglary entery point”. Sure enough, he killed himself a burglar.
Personally, I see it as catching a mouse in a mouse trap. Apparently the state sees it differently.
Doubt it was fireworks? More likely it was dynamite since this was a landscaping company. And yes, the safe would be a logical place to store dynamite.
Yeap, sounds like the thing to do is fill all the void spaces in your safe with kegs of smokeless powder.
You owe me a keyboard.....
Don’t worry— at their funerals, they’ll be canonized as really good boys that were just starting to turn their lives around. They loved their mothers and kittens and their kids they’ve had by various girlfriends, and even helped their friends move a refrigerator once. Real Saints, they were...
Well, at least they went out with a bang.
Live by the torch...die by the torch.
Sure-fire Darwin Award nominees....
The owner has already stipulated that it was fireworks and I believe dynamite can be burned w/o exploding.
Indeed, dynamite doesn’t explode when burned. It just burns. :-)
As well they should. What if the mouse is a firefighter breaking through the door to put out a fire?
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