Am I being insensitive when I say that everyone making homemade bombs should have his fingers blown off or worse?
As someone on the Salem News website noted (comments) he will be reminded of his stupid move every time he goes to use his mutilated hand..
Yeah, you’re also a jerk. Kids have been making stuff from firecrackers, caps and stuff for years. Most of them aren’t doing anything evil.
some teenage boys are risk-takers looking for a thrill. 20 years ago, when i was a teenager, i did some idiotic things too. i’m still surprised i made it to adulthood. i thank God i made it past those times.
Yeah, you are.
Boys are inquisitive and love to experiment. Gave mine a chemistry set and they learned to blow things across the room and embed objects into a wall with it though I think some household cleaning supplies got added(at least that was my guess).
I am lucky that I got them raised with only 1 broken arm and 5 sets of stitches.
When I look back on some of the stuff I DID as a kid in the 60’s, it’s wonder I’m still alive. Used Cap gunpowder stuffed into bicycle spoke nuts and held over a candle till they popped. Came close to losing an eye...........
No just rahter gnorant. Kids have been making homemade fireworks for a long time. I seem to remember Mark Twain's description of a fourth of July being incomplete unless a screaming victim of trying to make a louder bang was hauled away bleeding.
Nope, you're just being the product of an inferior generation of humanity (no personal insult intended). You're probably completely unaware that people have legitimate reasons for making their own explosives. You probably never cleared tree stumps from a field. You probably don't know that the USDA used to actually give classes on how to use ammonium nitrate and diesel to make anfo for such purposes.
What this kid did was stupid (not the bomb making, but failing to follow safety procedures); and he'll have a reminder of it for the rest of his life. But to extend his irresponsibility to suggest that "everyone" who makes homemade bombs should suffer a similar fate would curse almost every decent farmer, engineer or scientist the United States produces to being a cripple.
In an ideal world, of course, the kid would have had adult supervision. But we've created a pitiful world where the children of milquetoast parents aren't even trusted with rimfire rifles, let alone "dangerous" knowledge like basic chemistry and physics.
Kids have been blowing stuff up forever. I am a grandmother and my dad used to put tobacco cans of black powder on the trolley tracks..... that is until they lifted the trolley off the rails.
Mr G used to make fireworks with a buddy. His buddy’s folks had a steel door into the chimney so they could test them safely.
They made a bomb for the benefit of the “submarine race” watchers on prom night. It had a timer to give them a chance to be elsewhere, and it blew its guts into the river so there was no evidence left. Since Mr G was talking to the local sherriff when it went off, they couldn’t blame him.
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Even Junior G made bombs. He set one off next to our house that made things inside rattle. He had instructions to not repeat that trick, and since we live in the country there wasn’t a problem with neighbors.
Unfortunately, now all three of them would probably be in jail as terrorists.