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Local Man Blows Off Arm With Pipe Bomb
The Bismarck Tribune (ND) ^ | 7/15/04 | Mike Albrecht

Posted on 07/15/2004 9:10:36 AM PDT by marshmallow

Andrew Greff drove to a Bismarck hospital with one arm Saturday morning after he blew apart his other arm with a pipe bomb.

"I lit a pipe bomb, and it went off in my hand," the 21-year-old Bismarck man told St. Alexius Medical Center staff at about 6:30 a.m. when he ran through the emergency room doors. He said the accident happened at Kimball Bottoms, about 10 miles south of Bismarck.

The explosion blew apart Greff's left arm between his hand and mid bicep, Bismarck Police Lt. Dan Donlin said. The Tribune was unable to contact Greff for comment, and the hospital was unable to release his condition Monday afternoon.

Earlier this month, Greff and a friend, Doug Feist, 27, were accused of keeping poisonous snakes in Greff's 306 N. 13th St. apartment. They both face felony reckless endangerment charges for putting neighbors in danger. Greff was out of jail on a $500 bond.

Hospital staff called Bismarck police shortly after Greff pulled up next to the ambulance entrance. The bomb squad roped off an area around Greff's car while they searched inside it for explosives. The car was towed when only a few large fireworks were found inside.

Greff didn't answer many of the officers' questions. He was heavily sedated due to the "extreme pain," Donlin said.

Later that day, investigators went to Greff's apartment with a search warrant. No one answered their knocks, but they found a 20-year-old man hiding in the closet when they went inside. The man was not arrested, and police would not release his name.

Further investigation revealed that Feist, of Bismarck, helped make the pipe bombs and that he and Greff were attaching them to propane tanks, Donlin said. Feist was arrested after a witness said Feist helped construct the bomb, Donlin said.

Feist's car was searched next. Some evidence was found in the house and the car, but authorities were unable to elaborate because the investigation is ongoing.

"I haven't done anything wrong," Feist said Monday in an interview from the Burleigh County jail. "I never helped build the pipe bombs."

Feist said he wasn't with Greff Saturday morning, and that his friend acted on his own. Feist said he didn't hear about Greff's accident until after he was arrested and "it caught me as much off guard as everyone else."

"I feel really, really bad for him, but I just keep thinking 'Why would he do something like this?' I don't understand it," Feist said. "It just doesn't make any sense."

The Burleigh County Sheriff's Department also is investigating the accident because Greff said it occurred in the county. Sheriff's Maj. Nick Sevart said they were unable to find where the explosion occurred, but deputies are continuing to search just in case Greff left something dangerous behind.

"If there's a danger to the public, we want to take care of that," Sevart said.

Greff and Feist were charged Monday with felony possession of a bomb, Burleigh County Assistant State's Attorney Leann Bertsch said. Greff will appear in court for his first appearance -- where he's told of the charge against him and bond is set -- when he's released from the hospital. Feist had his first appearance Monday and is being held in the Burleigh County jail on a $5,000 cash bond.


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".....attaching them to propane tanks"??

Would those be the the small variety that are found under household grills, or the large variety which are found at railroad depots and fuel storage facilities?

1 posted on 07/15/2004 9:10:36 AM PDT by marshmallow
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To: marshmallow

Shades of FARGO


2 posted on 07/15/2004 9:12:35 AM PDT by sully777 (Our descendants will be enslaved by political expediency and expenditure)
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To: marshmallow

duh! hold muh beer and watch this!


3 posted on 07/15/2004 9:13:08 AM PDT by camle (keep your mind open and somebody will fill it with something for you))
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To: marshmallow

Ouch! That's gonna leave a mark!


4 posted on 07/15/2004 9:13:11 AM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (Kerry has a Carter Plan. Bush has a Reagan Plan. You choose which is your plan.)
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To: marshmallow

Hey Doug! Hold my beer... Now watch this...


5 posted on 07/15/2004 9:13:15 AM PDT by Incorrigible (immanentizing the eschaton)
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To: marshmallow
"I lit a pipe bomb, and it went off in my hand,"

3 more limbs away from a Darwin Award.

6 posted on 07/15/2004 9:14:37 AM PDT by Semper Paratus
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To: Howlin; Ed_NYC; MonroeDNA; widgysoft; Springman; Timesink; dubyaismypresident; Grani; coug97; ...

Just damn.

If you want on the list, FReepmail me. This IS a high-volume PING list...

7 posted on 07/15/2004 9:14:55 AM PDT by mhking (John Kerry & Al Gore: Cut from the same tree.)
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To: marshmallow

Darwin Award Honorable Mention


8 posted on 07/15/2004 9:15:15 AM PDT by 3AngelaD
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To: marshmallow
Poisonous snakes?
Pipe bombs? Attached to propane tanks?

A troubled fellow. Perhaps being crippled will set him straight.

9 posted on 07/15/2004 9:15:51 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (The Fourth Estate is a Fifth Column)
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To: camle; marshmallow
duh! hold muh beer and watch this!

Famous last words of the redneck.
10 posted on 07/15/2004 9:17:07 AM PDT by TXBSAFH (Power corrupts..... Absolute power can be fun.)
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To: marshmallow

How far is Bismarck from Fairbanks? Is that 'local'?


11 posted on 07/15/2004 9:17:23 AM PDT by RightWhale (Withdraw from the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty and establish property rights)
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To: marshmallow

What is it with guys who like to blow stuff up?


12 posted on 07/15/2004 9:17:50 AM PDT by Allegra (Proud Member of Free Republic Baghdad Chapter - est. July 4, 2004)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Nah, he'll just be a dangerous nut with a prosthetic.


13 posted on 07/15/2004 9:18:48 AM PDT by visualops (Let's win another one for the Gipper, and donate to FR too!!.)
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To: marshmallow
Articles like this drive me crazy.

The accident, the accident...over and over again.

Hey Einstein! If you lit it, how is it an 'accident'?

14 posted on 07/15/2004 9:20:34 AM PDT by MamaTexan (Logic and reason are your FRiends! (unless you're a Democrat :-p)
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To: Eaker; humblegunner; thackney

I thought what happened at Deer Camp stayed there!


15 posted on 07/15/2004 9:21:28 AM PDT by Xenalyte (I'm thinkin' of a master plan . . .)
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To: mhking

I think you are wanted over here ...


16 posted on 07/15/2004 9:21:29 AM PDT by Hermann the Cherusker
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To: marshmallow

That would probably be that big propane tank they heat the house with.


17 posted on 07/15/2004 9:21:40 AM PDT by annyokie (Now with 20% More Infidel!)
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To: marshmallow

I always found it convenient to have a looong fuse on pipe bombs. Errr . . . I meant if I ever had any pipe bombs, which of course I wouldn't . . .Awwww never mind.


18 posted on 07/15/2004 9:21:48 AM PDT by BipolarBob (Yes I backed over the vampire, but I swear I didn't see it in my rearview mirror.)
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To: Allegra

The standard response is: "it's a guy thing, you wouldn't understand."
That's really all there is to it.


19 posted on 07/15/2004 9:21:56 AM PDT by babaloo999 (Liberals say they're "Progressive". So is cancer.)
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To: Allegra
What is it with guys who like to blow stuff up?

I was one of those guys. Sign of normal male development IMHO.

There's no greater thrill at a young age than killing your first duck with a BB gun or throwing rocks at passing cars knowing full well that if Dad found out he'd kick your bloody arse.

20 posted on 07/15/2004 9:22:51 AM PDT by zarf
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