Police: Gas piped in to blow up Calif. building

Yahoo News ^ | 12/31/2009 | Yahoo News

[Dallas59]

HEMET, Calif. – Police say someone tried to blow up a gang task force building in Southern California by piping in natural gas.

Police say two officers from the Riverside County-based task force evacuated the building early Thursday after arriving for work and smelling a strong odor.

[Dallas59]

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[Deaf Smith]

BOLO out for Hank Hill.

[bboop]

Some nice Desert Rats out there.

[tubebender]

There were several ignition devices in the building per this 1985 Story

[ASOC]

Either that or scab labor was doing the plumbing. Occam’s Razor and all that.

[jessduntno]

I don’t understand why we insist on keeping the Gang units handcuffed - no pun intended - they know where and who these bstrds are and they could clean them out if the political will was there...these cops don’t get the help or the kudos they deserve dealing with this crap...

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Hemet police Lt. Duane Wisehart said authorities have not found a detonation device, but they believe whoever piped in the gas through the roof intended to cause an explosion.

More like Lt. Wisearse. Keen sense of the bleedin' obvious there, Duane.

[rockinqsranch]

Wondering whatever happened to the peaceful valley of ol’ folks, snow birds, golf, Ramona Pageant, etc. that was what I knew of Hemet not so long ago?

[Dallas59]

Mexico has arrived in full.

[driftdiver]

“they know where and who these bstrds are and they could clean them out if the political will was there”

Judge Dredd fan are ya?

[HiTech RedNeck]

Same building really? After going blooie like that I would expect it to have been totally rebuilt....

[HiTech RedNeck]

Now wait, they said it had been piped in through the roof. Don’t sound like a bum leaky plumbing job to me.

[driftdiver]

“Don’t sound like a bum leaky plumbing job to me.”

Yeah we know union plumbers wouldn’t work hard enough to put it through the ceiling.

[robomatik]

[HiTech RedNeck]

Modern utility gas (methane and traces of other hydrocarbons) has a fairly narrow range of ignitable concentration in air — something like 5 to 10% (don’t quote me as an engineering text) and if less or more than that it will not take a sustainable flame let alone explode. That’s probably why the attempt failed. It would be easier to suffocate somebody than to blow them up with methane.

[SouthTexas]

I don’t buy this. Natural gas is a product delivered by pipeline and into the building through a meter.

[robomatik]

p.s. the opening scene of the mechanic you'll understand my post after watching this clip. ;)

[lexington minuteman 1775]

Gosh a gang task force building and piped in gas...do you suppose there is a retaliation motive here? bwahahaha
With guys like Duane leading the force the folks in Hemet probably don’t sleep worth squat at night...

[truthguy]

Because the politicians are supremely politically correct. They have to act like they are dealing with a bunch of Anglo-Saxons or the like. They aren't and the methods that are used to deal with WASPs aren't going to work with these gang members. We as a society have yet to understand this and deal with it.
We ignore it at our peril.