Man's hands injured in dry-ice bomb blast(Darwin Honorable Mention)

S D UNION ^ | June 25, 2005 | S D UNION

[Ramonan]

RAMONA – A 21-year-old man suffered serious injuries to his hands Thursday when a homemade dry-ice bomb blew up as he held it, the Sheriff's Department reported.

Sheriff's deputies said the device detonated about 6:30 p.m. in the parking lot of an auto parts store on Main Street, severely lacerating the victim's hands between the thumbs and forefingers.

Investigators from the Sheriff's Bomb/Arson unit learned that the victim, an assistant manager in the store, was seen assembling the bomb inside the store and had carried it out to the parking lot. He was seen shaking the device with both hands moments before it exploded, said Sheriff's Lt. Edna Ito.

Making dry-ice bombs is a felony under California law, punishable by a maximum of one year in custody and/or a $10,000 fine. – Gregory Alan Gross

[calex59]

Every grocery store I've been to in Colorado sells dry ice. It's used for keeping stuff cool on camping trips without getting everything wet.

Us out of state hunters put it inside the deer carcass to keep it cold(usually most of the deer freezes) on the trip home. Most CO. stores I have stopped at sell it.

[coloradan]

Sheriff's deputies said the device detonated

It didn't "detonate," it "burst." Detonation is reserved for high explosives; the erosion of language continues.

Making dry-ice bombs is a felony under California law, punishable by a maximum of one year in custody and/or a $10,000 fine.

Wow - lose your Second Amendment rights forever, even when you don't intend to hurt anyone or anything. Good thing I only used LN, never dry ice.

[GLH3IL]

Yeah.....I wonder what "swolled up" on this one? lol

http://www.big-boys.com/articles/sheepbomb.html

[ArmedNReady]

Be my guest.

[acad1228]

Okay. Let's face the facts guys. We have all done some kind of stupid crap like these dorks....

Okay, don't nobody try this! I was thirteen when some friends and I decided to see if something I dreamed up would work. We took six packages of blackcat firecrackers and two gross of bottle rockets and assembled all the powder out of them. We then poured it into a glass pop bottle, poked a hole on the lid for a fuse, screwed the cap on tight and drop it down a post hole and lit the fuse. We had tied several fuses together so we were able to get a couple hundred feet away before it blew.

Fire, smoke and a good cubic yard of dirt and rock spewed out of that hole along with an explosion so loud, windows in a church a quarter mile away were broken. Our parents knew it was us because all four of us were nearly deaf for a week. Mom wanted to turn us over to the sherrif, but Dad said we had learned our lesson.

[acad1228]

Ok, ours wasn't that big! Damn!

[lunarbicep]

thanks for the link.... I needed a good laugh
BTW - I LOVE your tagline

[mmercier]

The old stackable Schlitz cans could be opened at each end and taped together with duct tape. You leave the bottom on the 5th can, and punch a small hole in the bottom. Pour a tablespoon of 90% rubbing alcohol in, and push a tennis ball to the top of the last can.

Flick a bick into the hole, and it sends the tennis ball into the stratosphere. We used to have fights with these "bazookas", and if you took a square hit you went down for more than a minute. I still have a dent in my head from my brother.

Ah childhood... I have other devices we made as kids, using powdered pool chlorine. Alas, these ideas are best left unpublished today.

[cyborg]

LOL

[Melas]

Can anyone point me to a TV show or movie where a dry ice bomb was made or mentioned?

I see your problem already. I can't show you a movie or tv show that mentions dry ice bombs. However, I can point you to dozens of science texts geared to middle school to high school level that detail the experiment. It's usually right next to the experiment where you hot and cold water to get air pressure to crush a metal gasoline can.

[Bostton1]

LOL no problem and thanks.

[Tunehead54]

On trips to Mexico we'd buy hundreds of bottle rockets and run around the beach with a backpocketful and a cigarette in one hand so you could light your rocket and then zing it at your best buddy. Needless to say timing and fast reflexes are essential elements to this game. No one ever got hurt (too badly) ...

A tamer pasttime was using a catfood/tuna can with a small amount of water in it, using a can opener to remove the bottom of a steel can, poke a firecracker-sized hole in the top, pop the firecracker in just about up to the fuse, place in tuna can, light and get back. Depending on your firecracker quality the can would go straight up at least 60 -100 feet.

At least with the fuse you had a little safety margin - your tennis ball "cannon" sounds riskier! Do they still make Schlitz? ;-)

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[rlmorel]

heh, we did the taped cans and tennis ball thing too. Everyone knows that's why they changed em to what they are now...;)

[todd1]

well electrical tape...

[rabidralph]

Excuse me while I go check on that case of aerosol cans I have in my truck.

[lopaka32003]

a BOMB is a BOMB no matter what you make it from...if some nut were to tape glass or some kind of shrapnel to it it could kill or maime...that guy's lucky it didn't hurt him more or hurt some innocent bystander....Building a bomb is proof that he had too much time on his hands...now he'll regret it for the rest of his life...a felony is nothing compared to his lasting injuries...You make bomb...you must be dumb!!!!

[Nailbiter]

ping for later

[HiTech RedNeck]

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