Posted on 09/21/2015 11:30:08 AM PDT by Sean_Anthony
What does it mean to surf a building? Ride a surfboard atop collapsing bricks as they’re falling?
Yes. Let me see if I can find the recent story.
Here it is:
Sorry, no. It was a timing device that had the current to set off an alarm. Thus, it had enough current to trigger a the primer to the main charge. The REALITY: He took a fully functional detonator onto a school campus. That is wholly different from taking a picture of a gun, or a toy gun, vs. a real firearm.
A timer is not a detonator, much less a “fully functional” detonator. You need a license to purchase detonators, because they contain regulated explosives. You can’t just fashion one from a clock.
You are misusing terminology, and making factually incorrect statements. If what that kid had counts as a “fully functional” detonator, then every kid with a wristwatch, cell phone, calculator, etc, has a “fully functional” detonator at school, because they are all capable of doing exactly the same thing that you are worried about.
Yes, Boogieman, your last statement is true. However, what counts is PERCEPTION, and INTENT. Other innocent people PERCEIVED a bona-fide threat from the Muslim kid, because it LOOKED like an IED. He may havbe INTENDED to intimadate - look at his Dad’s background! AND, yes it COULD detonate an explosive. So could the other kid’s cell phones, and watches, (and both of them have been used in IED’s also!) but they have no INTENT to do so.
“AND, yes it COULD detonate an explosive.”
By itself? No it could not. It’s impossible to simply detonate high explosives with the electric current from a clock. It would require an ACTUAL detonator in order to work.
It could set off a firecracker, via resistance heating a light bulb filament, or a photographic flash bulb, which would EASILY set off a vial of nitroglycerin. Or a pipe of black powder.
“It could set off a firecracker, via resistance heating a light bulb filament, or a photographic flash bulb, which would EASILY set off a vial of nitroglycerin. Or a pipe of black powder.”
You are really reaching.
Yes, electricity can set off LOW order explosives, but then nobody speaks of “detonators” when dealing with low order explosives (or unstable high order explosives like nitro), so obviously you are moving the goalposts here. You only need a detonator for high order explosives, and this clock would absolutely be non-functional for that purpose.
No reach. I am just relating what CAN be done, and what HAS been done. Why, you could probably build a viable such device yourself, if you were so inclined.
Of course it can be done, but you’re just going off on tangents.
The only thing I care about is that people are calling this kids clock or whatever the hell it was a detonator. It’s not a detonator. You’re making it sound as if he could just plug it in to some C4 and blow up the damn school, and that is flat out impossible.
It’s a simple electronic device. Yes, electronic devices can be used as bomb components, but this one is no more useful for that than practically every other electronic device floating around the school.
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