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Missing Fertilizer Investigated As Commercial Theft
KNBC TV, Los Angeles ^
| May 21, 2007
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Posted on 05/21/2007 9:30:52 AM PDT by Sefton
LOS ANGELES -- A big rig reported stolen turned up in Carson, Calif., but its five-ton load of fertilizer was gone, police said Monday. Lt. David Young of the Los Angeles Police Department's Northeast Station said authorities were concerned because fertilizer can be used to make explosives, but he said this was likely the work of thieves -- not terrorists.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: terrorism
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Move along people, nothing to worry about, move along...
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posted on
05/21/2007 9:30:55 AM PDT
by
Sefton
To: Sefton
Either Mexicans or Muslims. Get ready folks.
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posted on
05/21/2007 9:33:43 AM PDT
by
WorkerbeeCitizen
(Anti Islam and a Global Warming denier - piss on Islam)
To: Sefton
he said this was likely the work of thieves -- not terrorists.
Glad he is so certain....but I don't recall a big market for stolen fertilizer. It is kind of heavy...and cheap. Not something you'd normally expect to see a fencing operation for.
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posted on
05/21/2007 9:33:56 AM PDT
by
P-40
(Al Qaeda was working in Iraq. They were just undocumented.)
To: Sefton
There are many “fertilizer” formulations, but only one, so far as I know, that is used to make improvised bombs. This reporter failed to inform us as to whether or not ammonium nitrate is the fertilizer stolen,or commandeered.
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posted on
05/21/2007 9:34:09 AM PDT
by
Elsiejay
To: Sefton
Sure. It’s just those notorious fertilizer thieves. They're everywhere nowadays
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posted on
05/21/2007 9:34:13 AM PDT
by
michigander
(The Constitution only guarantees the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.)
To: Sefton
Well, yeah, they’re ‘just thieves’ right now. They don’t officially become ‘terrorists’ until they actually blow something up...
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posted on
05/21/2007 9:34:30 AM PDT
by
Hegemony Cricket
(Tradition is merely a group effort to prevent the unexpected)
To: Sefton
Relax.
Some poor “undocumented immigrants” just needed it for an onion field.
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posted on
05/21/2007 9:35:06 AM PDT
by
XR7
To: Sefton
but he said this was likely the work of thieves -- not terrorists. And they know this how???????
To: P-40
“Not something you’d normally expect to see a fencing operation for.”
That was my thought as well...
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posted on
05/21/2007 9:43:11 AM PDT
by
babygene
(Never look into the laser with your last good eye...)
To: babygene
oh yeah, I see guys selling “hot fertilizer” out of their trunks all the time, lol.
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posted on
05/21/2007 9:44:47 AM PDT
by
GYPSY286
(Politicians must USE their heads or Americans will LOSE their heads.)
To: Sefton
This will turn up later tonight as Jack Bauer and the Los Angeles based CTU fight Terrorists for truth, justice and AMNESTY!!!!!
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posted on
05/21/2007 9:46:55 AM PDT
by
Gideon Reader
(DEMOCRATS: Not quite American, and proud of it! And the Republicans are striving for parity.)
To: Sefton
It would all depend on how much ammonium nitrate was in the fertilizer. Below a certain point and it won’t explode. Indeed, after the OKC Bombing, there was a proposal floated to restrict the amount of A/N in all fertilizers to prevent it from being used in ANFO.
To: P-40
Fertilizer is not all that cheap now. Fertilizer goes up with the price of natural gas. Want to see how profitable fertilizer companies are just now that they’re increasing their prices? Look at the charts for stocks TNH and POT.
Five tons, depending on the type of fertilizer, will run you from $280/ton to $360/ton, in bulk. From what I read, this was packaged for retail sale, which means that this would probably fetch a few thousand dollars more. Given how many illegals are working in the landscaping business in SoCal at cut-rates, off the books, I can certainly see how retail fertilizer would be attractive. “Hey, Senor, we got a really good deal on zee fertilizer... make zee grass grow nice and green...”
Too many people think that all fertilizers can be used to make a bomb. If I gave you 10 tons of the fertilizer we use every year (11-52-0), you could soak that stuff with diesel oil until you’re blue in the face and it would never light off. Only ammonium nitrate (34-0-0) in good grade, without too much binder/filler, will work for ANFO. 34-0-0 is rarely seen in retail applications. Most homeowners would burn their lawns or landscaping with fertilizer that concentrated, so most retail fertilizer is blended to relatively low concentrations.
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posted on
05/21/2007 9:50:49 AM PDT
by
NVDave
To: Sefton
I suppose they’ll start watching for an increase in black market tomatoes, now?
To: Sefton
BANDINI is the word for fertilizer! LOL I remember those commercials.
I bet if it is Ammonium Nitrate they won’t report it so Los Angeles does not panic.
To: Sefton
Tons of fertilizer missing? I thought Michael Moore was just seen at Cannes?
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posted on
05/21/2007 10:07:42 AM PDT
by
QuiMundus
(Learn, Act, Educate, Repeat - http://www.AnAmericanFirst.com)
To: WorkerbeeCitizen
Enough to make one Hell of a bang!
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posted on
05/21/2007 10:18:01 AM PDT
by
SWAMPSNIPER
(THE SECOND AMENDMENT, A MATTER OF FACT, NOT A MATTER OF OPINION)
To: Sefton
Commercial Theft I'm not buying it. Something smells.
To: GYPSY286
I see guys selling hot fertilizer You mean they don't age the chicken manure, before selling it? That'll burn your plants to a crisp!
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posted on
05/21/2007 10:31:59 AM PDT
by
ApplegateRanch
(Islam: a Satanically Transmitted Disease, spread by unprotected intimate contact with the Koranus.)
To: NVDave
Given how many illegals are working in the landscaping business in SoCal at cut-rates, off the books, I can certainly see how retail fertilizer would be attractive. Hey, Senor, we got a really good deal on zee fertilizer... make zee grass grow nice and green... Second choice, 'commercial' pot farmers, trying to 'enhance' some low grade public lands, to increase yields/profits. Being sacked for commercial sale makes it easy for their workers to pack it in to the site(s).
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posted on
05/21/2007 10:36:41 AM PDT
by
ApplegateRanch
(Islam: a Satanically Transmitted Disease, spread by unprotected intimate contact with the Koranus.)
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