Explosive device found in Fishers home (Indianapolis Suburb)

Noblesville Daily Times ^ | October 19, 2005

[bd476]

The Indy Channel.com

Boy's Friends Shocked By Bomb Discovery
Police Dispose Of Explosive Device Found In Home

POSTED: 7:55 am EST October 19, 2005
UPDATED: 8:48 am EST October 19, 2005

FISHERS, Ind. -- A Fishers home was surrounded and wrapped in crime scene tape Tuesday after an explosive device was found inside the home, police said.
Police said a 14-year-old boy made the device. It was safely disposed of by Indiana State Police, RTV6's Tanya Spencer reported.

Police questioned the boy Tuesday evening. He's was charged with possession of a destructive device, a Class C felony.

Officials described the home as a nice home in a nice community. Neighbors and classmates of the boy were surprised to learn of the device.

"I'm just completely awe-struck. I had no idea that any of my friends would ever do something like this," sophomore Sean Matuszik said.

Fishers police and Hamilton County school officials said they learned of the device Tuesday morning from a conversation a student heard on a bus.

"We had a student that reported overhearing two or three students talking. In that conversation, the student indicated that he had downloaded some information on the process of making a device that could be dangerous," said Dr. Richard Hogue, Hamilton Southeastern assistant superintendent.

After an initial search and evacuation of the neighborhood, state police bomb teams and bomb sniffing dogs were brought in.

"They did locate and verify a device that had shrapnel within it that was triggered by a fuse," said Fishers police Officer Ed Gebhart.

The freshman student was being held by police at the Hamilton County Juvenile Detention Center.

"I actually talked to him yesterday. We were just joking around and talking. He didn't mention or even hint to something about a bomb," Matuszik said.

Officials said the teen did not threaten to bring the device to school. But Hamilton Southeastern officials said they didn't want to take any chances.

"Any situation where a student could be harmed is the most serious thing we could deal with at the school," Hogue said.

Boy's Friends Shocked By Bomb Discovery

[bd476]

If it's possible, could you please add (Indianapolis Suburb) to the title? Thank you.

[RedBeaconNY]

Something doesn't add up here... he never threatened to bring it to school nor has he (I assume) been in trouble in the past- and they're holding him in a detention facility. What he does on his own property is his own business... and a can of gasoline is technically an explosive device.

[higgmeister]

Explosive device found in Fishers home

Of course! How could we have been so confused?
Fishers wasn't possessive. lol!

[bd476]

RedBeaconNY wrote: "Something doesn't add up here... he never threatened to bring it to school nor has he (I assume) been in trouble in the past- and they're holding him in a detention facility."

RedBeaconNY, perhaps you didn't read the articles above. The teenager has been charged with a Class C felony, possession of a bomb, which the teenager made at home.

Would you rather he be allowed to stay in the same place he created his shrapnel filled bomb?

RedBeaconNY wrote: "...What he does on his own property is his own business..."

Are you serious about allowing 14 year old boys to make shrapnel filled bombs, as long as they don't bring them to school?

RedBeaconNY wrote: "... and a can of gasoline is technically an explosive device."

This was not a "can of gasoline." This was a "small, hand-crafted, fused-trigger device containing shrapnel inside" which the teenager made after he downloaded bomb-making instructions from the internet.

[bd476]

higgmeister wrote: " 'Explosive device found in Fishers home'
Of course! How could we have been so confused? Fishers wasn't possessive. lol!"

LOL! Guess I should have used the story (and title) I posted in my first response: Boy's Friends Shocked By Bomb Discovery as the main story (and title) for the thread.

[DUMBGRUNT]

"small, hand-crafted, fused-trigger device containing shrapnel inside"

Tends to work best if you put the shrapnel part on the out side. Think of the old pineapple type grenade.

So the kid put some match heads in a pipe and stuck a fuse in it?
What was the kiloton rating when the bomb squad popped it?

[HighlyOpinionated]

Are y'all shell shocked from the War On Terror?

If this kid was a 20 yr old from the middle east, what would your reaction be?

If this kid was the son of someone from the middle east, what would your reaction be.

Remember, the goal of izlam is to convert our children and then promise them the moon (literally, the moon-god) in exchange for being a suicide bomber.

[higgmeister]

Something doesn't add up here... he never threatened to bring it to school nor has he....

I agree with you, unless in the papers they found along
with, I assume, "The Anarchist's Handbook" there were
threats.

When I was a kid we tried to make all kinds of bombs and
the like. We had chemistry sets that even made hydrogen.
I read about Gun Cotton in Jules Verne. Fire Crackers and
Cherry Bombs were a normal part of youth. Boys thrive
on powerful explosions but they can't do that nowadays.

[Trust but Verify]

Must be a slow news day.

[bd476]

DUMBGRUNT wrote: 'small, hand-crafted, fused-trigger device containing shrapnel inside'

Tends to work best if you put the shrapnel part on the out side. Think of the old pineapple type grenade."

That's interesting. Sounds like you have a lot of experience.

DUMBGRUNT wrote: "So the kid put some match heads in a pipe and stuck a fuse in it? "

Where did you read that?

DUMBGRUNT wrote: "What was the kiloton rating when the bomb squad popped it?"

The articles did not report that information, but the Fishers Indiana Police web site might have an answer.

[bd476]

bobbdobbs wrote: "Fortunately we grew up in an earlier era. Today we'd be doing hard time for all our little (and not so little) firecrackers we concocted."

Wow, you put shrapnel inside your homemade firecrackers back then? That must have made your 4ths of July very exciting.

[bd476]

Trust but Verify wrote: Must be a slow news day."

Not sure and haven't heard nor seen any statistics on that yet today.

[rock58seg]

I spent my summers from the age of 12 to 14 trying to find new explosive mixes and also "the universal solvent".

We had plenty of gas, diesel, farm chemicals, fertilizer, and even some old dynamite. but that stuff was already known. Much to easy.

As for the universal solvent, it never occured to me that I had nothing to keep it in, once I found it.


I'm here to report, I failed on all fronts.

[DUMBGRUNT]

The Anarchist Cookbook, I still have a copy!
Doesn't everyone like to blow things up?

[em2vn]

"She said that she instantly began panicking because her husband and son were at home."
How would you like to put up with this drama queen on a regular basis? Heavens above, where do these women come from? Maybe watching too much Oprah will yet be the death of our great nation.

[mysterio]

I made homemade firecrackers when I was a kid. I guess now the jackboots would be kicking my door in and shooting my whole family.

[Squantos]

kid says he downloaded it off the internet......one more reason to not brag about how to specifics in open forums.

Any idiot can blow themselves up with basic chemistry learned in 6th grade.

The ones I liked were the dummy's that think how to books "are". I have cleaned up after most of them with a mop and a paintscraper . Such experts as Kurt Saxon were our best bets that the bomb maker would kill themselves before they hurt others in 9 out of 10 cases. For proof of Saxons expertise just look at him, missing fingers and eye and goes "huh ? " a whole lot !

We had all the cool wannabe libary bomb building books from acme press etc on our shelves such as Anarchist Cook Books, Poor mans James Bond, The CIA Black book etc etc , revenge books and they were examples of how to kill yerself with too much of the wrong knowledge.

Just my opinion based on 26 years of seeing the results first hand .....:o)

[festus]

Aint that the truth. Who didn't experiment with explosive devices and, may I go so far as to say, shrapnel to see just how destructive it could be ?

Its called bein a kid and learnin stuff.

Stories like this convince me that if we don't come to our senses soon a stronger and more violent culture will surely overtake ours.