Posted on 03/02/2009 7:55:09 AM PST by Nachum
FREDERICK, Md. (AP) - Frederick police say four tons of fertilizer have been stolen from a farm supply store.
The fertilizer disappeared from the Southern States store in the 500 block of East South Street in Frederick some time Saturday night or early Sunday.
A store representative told police that 2,000 pounds of urea and 6,000 pounds of other fertilizer are missing. The fertilizer was in white 50-pound bags with a company logo.
Lt. Clark Pennington says they don't know what the motive behind the theft is, but they have notified the Maryland Coordination Analysis Center, which alerts all federal agencies of the theft.
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Who ever stole it is in big trouble if they didn’t pay the Carbon Tax on it.
dont have any loins people. and if i did i sure wouldnt be girding them.
Want to be terrorists are often stupid.
That said I agree. I recall McVeigh and Nichols bought their ammonium nitrate a few bags at a time and not all in the same place (or state). Same with the racing fuel they used.
At the current cost of fertilizer, it could well be just straight theft.
I thought after I posted that...
“am I unnecessarily spooking someone?”
March 5th Anniversary Celebration-Obama-Dem Recreation thingee.
C'mon, you all remember the one that Biden said was going to happen soon after Obamassiah and Rahm got settled in, and we MIGHT NOT like the way they "handle it", but it would be for our own good??????
Remember now??
“Why call attention
to yourself stealing the stuff
when it’s sort of cheap?”
Because the government now tracks fertilizer sales. If you purchase a truckload of fertilizer and don’t have a farm, alarm bells go off.
Exactly so.
Last I knew, the price of 11-52-0 was nearly $1200/ton in Nevada. Super-phos (phosphoric acid, which was about net 50% P), as a little cheaper, but not much.
Nitrate fertilizers go up/down with the price of natural gas to some extent, but the phosphates went up and stayed up. The only thing that will bring them down is demand destruction.
Buku oxidizer! That’s too much for a Gilbert chemistry set!
lol. no problem. I do really appreciate it. Besides your “spooking” a guy who told his friends that he feared the Superbowl in Detroit was going to be hit with a WMD...as they dropped their kids off at our house on their way there!!
Nachum posted it.
Did a little searching this morning, it appears more was stolen in California last September, along with blasting caps.
http://www.news10.net/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=47870
I used to live in Fredrock back in the 80’s.
I believe the Obama administration intends to repeal the law of supply and demand.
No.
The THREAT of (right wing) terrorists IS what they NEED.
This administration thrives on FEAR, ANGER, HATRED, and WOE-IS-ME on the part of the socialists. If a liberal did not steal this explosive himself, a liberal NEEDS it to attack his enemies by shutting down liberty, gun ownership, assemblies, the Internet, etc. (US - in other words.)
Maybe these guys just stole the wrong kind of fertilizer and their bomb won’t go boom.
Well let’s just hope the thieves put it to good use and nothing nefarious.
I was in a feed store a couple of years ago when a man came in and asked the owners about fertilizer storage and if they knew who they sold it to. He left some contact info. My guess is that anyone that was not known to the employees that tried to buy certain fertilizer products, would be the subject of a police stop soon after.
That actually happened to a TV station crew in NJ who tried to show how easy it would be for someone to buy fertilizer to build a bomb. The state police stopped and questioned them afterwards. FWIW, the store refused to sell the fertilizer.
The old “You’re not from around here are you?” has probably short-stopped a few budding bomb makers.
lol..sad..but funny.
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