Explosives missing at construction site

The Press-Enterprise ^ | 11/28/06 | John Asbury

[theDentist]

Someone planning on celebrating the election of San Francisco values?

[RightWhale]

From the weight it appears to be of foreign manufacture. As such there could be any amount missing worldwide, but the ludicrously small amount missing from the construction site should empower the trillion dollar anti-terrorism industry for yet a few more days.

[lilylangtree]

Does the Dome of the Rock need to be in pieces or in dust?

[LibWhacker]

I don't know anything about explosives. How much damage could 110lbs of Blastex do, anyhow?

[Junior]

I have a feeling many American explosives companies do their packaging in kilos, too. After all, they do sell to foreign markets.

The converse is not true, however. My wife buys many of her perfume-making supplies from foreign suppliers; she has to do all her purchasing in metric. Fortunately, most of that industry is converting to metric, so most of her "recipes" use grams and milliliters...

[BradtotheBone]

I bet someone is planning a fishing trip ;0)>

[RightWhale]

Well, a couple tons in a Ryder truck out front might take the facade off a ten-story building. This would be 1/40th of that. You'd notice the explosion. In a crowd it would mess up a bunch of people.

[libstripper]

The article doesn't say if any detonators were stolen. The Blastex is probably pretty safe without detonators. Indeed, the thing about making many devices, especially those based on amonium nitrate and fuel oil, is that one needs detonators and they're the hard things to get. If the perps didn't take any detonators, they were a real bunch of fools.

[Cobra64]

Missing

[Cobra64]

About 10 years ago, my wife bought me a bottle of Red for Men by Giorgio. Do they still make it?

[RightWhale]

I have been both English and metric since majoring in physics a few decades ago. I think that tsunami tidal waves should be measured strictly in feet and stellar distances in parsecs. That is my considered opinion and about as far as it goes.

[knarf]

It just may be ... some patriots with real brass ones have a plan.

Just a guess ... I know in my neck o' th' woods there's a whole bunch of pissed of conservatives.

[Allegra]

This would be 1/40th of that. You'd notice the explosion. In a crowd it would mess up a bunch of people.

...Yep.

[dljordan]

"How much damage could 110lbs of Blastex do, anyhow?"

You could make a lot of 1 lb. anti-personnel bombs out of it. You'd need a lot of caps though but if you were a terrorist I'm sure you could just have some coyote bring them over the border for you.

[RightWhale]

That kind of thing will draw attention from the authorities who don't care if somebody has his dighties in a wad about something so long as he doesn't say or do something 'tupid.

[LibWhacker]

Hmmm... Okay, thanks. Sounds like it's only good for about one or two respectable IEDs, and that's it. Not that I believe terrorists are behind this theft. On the contrary, probably just a couple of local doofuses.

Still, I think I'm going to start doing a daily search for stolen explosive articles, because whenever I search, I seem to come up with something small and under the radar, like this one. And they do add up.

[dljordan]

"If the perps didn't take any detonators, they were a real bunch of fools."

You don't store detonators with blasting agents.

[RightWhale]

When the inventory doesn't match the delivery sheets it is invariably a shortage. Nobody ever finds more of whatever than he bought. It's a Law of the Universe.

[sidegunner]

(.. fishing trip )

Ahhhhh..the DuPont Lure..good for anything that swims.