"Neglect of safety precautions".
Right.
At last a cheaper explosion than buying the expensive dynamite.
Hikers Find Bag of Stolen Explosives; More Missing (Colorado)
Article Published: Wednesday, March 17, 2004
By The Associated Press
COLORADO SPRINGS - Hikers stumbled onto a stolen bag of ammonium nitrate-based explosive, the same type used in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.
The 50-pound bag was one of eight stolen last summer from a concrete company in northwest Colorado Springs. There was no sign of the other bags.
"Three-hundred fifty pounds are still out there somewhere," said Rick McMorran, a bomb technician from the El Paso County sheriff's office.
The amount of ammonium nitrate and fuel oil mixture stolen was enough to blow apart a three-story building, authorities said.
Searchers with a bomb-sniffing dog went to the spot Monday where hikers found the bag, near Cheyenne Canyon, but turned up nothing.
The material was stolen in July from a locked storage unit at Castle Concrete Co. at the Pike View Quarry in northwest Colorado Springs.
Ammonium nitrate and fuel oil can't be detonated without several other components. The contents of the bags resemble tiny, white balls.
The nitrate becomes more volatile as it is crushed into a finer powder and smells like diesel fuel.
An estimated 4,800 pounds of ammonium nitrate and fuel oil were used for the bomb that blew up the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City and killed 168 people. Denver juries convicted Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols on federal charges in the bombing.
McVeigh was executed. Nichols was sentenced to life in prison and is now being tried on state charges in Oklahoma.
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