Local Man Blows Off Arm With Pipe Bomb

The Bismarck Tribune (ND) ^ | 7/15/04 | Mike Albrecht

[Xenalyte]

You should come to one of my family gatherings. It's the only place I can absolutely, without question, depend on hearing the phrase "hold my beer."

My hand to God.

[bikepacker67]

3 more limbs away from a Darwin Award.

I'd go with 4 more - just to be on the genetic safe side.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

This is someone to keep an eye on.

[COBOL2Java]

"May the Good Lord take a likin' to ya' and blow ya' up real soon!"

[xJones]

It might be a good idea for the now one-armed man to give up poisonous snake care after this. That is unless he's determined to finally win that Darwin Prize.

[TXBSAFH]

We do not ask someone to hold our beers at my family gatherings. We have drink holder in the arms of our lawn chairs and coasters inside. That is only for the rare occasion we put the dang beer down.

[humblegunner]

he and Greff were attaching them to propane tanks

Propane tanks??? Bloody amateurs.
The home cutting torch cylinders are far superior and a lot more transportable.

For anti-personnel instead of incendiary a length of duct tape with framing nails
set head-to-toe wrapping the device works quite nicely.. I heard somewhere.

[Charles Martel]

I thought what happened at Deer Camp stayed there!

The arm stayed...

[Jaysun]

"I lit a pipe bomb, and it went off in my hand,"

That's an honest mistake. Anyone could forget the next step after lighting the pipe bomb - throw it.

[dread78645]

hold muh beer and watch this!

"Well Duh ... he only has like one arm, ya know!"

[Allegra]

The standard response is: "it's a guy thing, you wouldn't understand."

Yeah, yeah....there are a bunch of guys in my "neighborhood" who like to blow stuff up.

Regularly.

[anonymous_user]

Shades of FARGO

Nah, this is a west river thing. ;)

[Cannoneer No. 4]

What is it with guys who don't like to blow things up? Metrosexuals I suspect.

I think the male fascination with high explosives is related to pyromania. Boys just naturally love to play with fire. The boys who love it the most grow up to become fire fighters, pyrotechnicians, demolition techs, combat engineers, tankers and artillerymen. The opportunity to blow things up, burn things down, shoot the hell out of things and not go to jail for it is a powerful recruiting aid.

[anonymous_user]

Ever notice how some firecracker fuses burn really slow, and others go "fss*BOOM!*" almost instantly?

I'm guessing these guys never noticed that.

[Rebelbase]

The radical Cubans in Miami back in the 70's used to talk a couple of sticks of dynamite and ducttape them to 2 or 3 of the small hardware store propane cylinders, like the kind you use for lanterns and plumbing torches.

[SLB]

What happened to the gene pool in North Dakota?

[sully777]

The Red Green Show (canadian humor but close enough to the Dakotas)

Episode 219: The Chainsaw Races

The Possum Lodge is double-booked for Red’s chainsaw races and Harold’s gifted children. Red turns a van into a boom box louder than any teenager’s car radio. Dalton, Winston and Walter deal with a runaway nail gun. Dwight Cardiff talks about skydiving again. Handyman’s Corner shows how to paint a room with a lawn sprinkler.

[Allegra]

I do like to shoot things.

I don't think I've ever blown anything up, though.

When I was in Junior High, some of my classmates (two guys) blew up the concession stand at the school football stadium one night when nobody was around.

I thought that was pretty cool.

[zarf]

What happened to the gene pool in North Dakota?

What did Custer tell the North Dakotans?

Stay stupid till I get back.

[Eaker]

Lies, lies and damn lies!!!

One should use a REALLY long fuse when doing something this stupid!!! We prefer to shoot the object in question from a long way off!!