Posted on 12/23/2005 6:49:19 PM PST by precedence
Nothing more...just posted on the MSNBC website.
(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...
It may have been destined for sheetheads..
No, how about Leslie Brown, 44, of Ignacio, Colo.; David Brown, 49, of Bloomfield; and Eric Wayne Armstrong, 32, of Bloomfield.
Great stuff for cutting down trees.
I'd love to be a fly on the wall when somebody tries to use it as fuse.
Having done a bit of hard rock mining, we lost about a four inch piece one day.
We found it the next day when we were burning the burn barrel and a bunch of stuff shot about 4 feet out of the top of the barrel and there was a bang that'd wake ya up!
I'd imagine. :)
When I was in the service, I was a medic that was assigned to an engineer company that was tasked to clean out an area of woods for a rifle range.
Chainsaws??? No freakin' way! The engineers made two wraps of det cord around the bases of the trees and covered it all with sandbags. One twist of the detonator, and a whole row of 1-2 foot diameter trees would topple down; sliced neatly at the ground as though done by a razor blade.
I could just imagine some DUmb@ss touching a bic lighter to a length of it!
Their middle name will be Wayne, Lee or Ray.
— 150 pounds of C-4, 250 pounds of sheet explosives, 20,000 feet of detonator cord and 2,500 blasting caps —
Anyone want to guess the origins of their last names????
20,000 feet of det cord???
I doubt they knew what they had.
Or how to handle it.
I've had people toss me blasting caps, but they were new, and not unstable. But I've handled dynamite that basically had nitoglycerine dripping out of it.
These days, everybody gets all hot and bothered if somebody steals a back of fertilizer. But even with professional grade Ammonium Nitrate, you gotta know what your doing to make it go, and it must be confined. Set it off in open air and it'll make a big thump and alot of smoke but not much more.
I doubt they knew what they had.Or how to handle it.
But I've handled dynamite that basically had nitroglycerine dripping out of it.
From what little I know of ANFO blasting, it is used primarily in the quarrying business – drill the holes, add ANFO and tamp it down. Rock makes very good containment. I guess a steel drum works too.
... when the names aren't Mexican or muzzie?
"Stolen were 150 pounds of C-4, 250 pounds of sheet es, 20,000 feet of detonator cord and 2,500 blasting caps.
Investigators have said there was no evidence to suggest a link to ism"
Um, er, now why in the world would anyone think that these nice fellas had any violent intentions, such as ism. After all, they might have just been planning to bake cookies with this stuff. Is this some kind of PC crap? Why in the hell do they make such a stupid announcement? The assumption (investigation-wise) should be that they ARE planning to blow SOMETHING up, which might just be an act of ism. Ergo, the logical inference is that there IS evidence of a link to ism. The more I hear of the CIA (leaks, damaging Bush, etc.) and the bungling PC stupidity of our otherwise once-great investigative services (FBI, eg), the more I think its time to scrap them all and start all over.
No, how about Leslie Brown, 44, of Ignacio, Colo.; David Brown, 49, of Bloomfield; and Eric Wayne Armstrong, 32, of Bloomfield
OH Yeah, but what did they leave out, huh? That's Leslie Al-Akbar Brown, David Yussuf Brown and Eric Wayne Jabbar Armstrong. Typical MSM coverup (sarcasm off).
20,000 feet of det cord???
Yikes!!!!
Uhhhh - would you want to be anywhere close to a mine when the C-4 went off? To paraphrase Bill Cosby's famous Noah conversation "How well can you dodge rocks?"
Same with me.
In the early '60's (me age 10-12), my Dad would send me down to the hardware store on my Yamaha 80 to pick up a case of dynamite, and put it "on the account".
Tied it behind me on the seat, and away I went.
Never a problem.
Nah... it was on the west side of Albuquerque, on the other side of the city, west of the Central Ave - I-40 interchange. Saw it from the air just a few hours ago as I flew in from Phoenix. It's just west of the edge of the mesa near the top of Nine-mile hill. A good 20 miles from Sandia.
You got it pegged -- a storage site ready to be robbed.
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