Gang Task Force's Building Rigged to Explode in Hemet [LA/San Jacinto CA]

NBC ^ | 12/31/2009

[Ladycalif]

Updated 2:43 PM PST, Thu, Dec 31, 2009

Gang task force members in Hemet are lucky to alive Thursday after they noticed their office was flooded with natural gas in an apparently deliberate attempt to cause a deadly explosion, police said.

"It was basically designed so that once somebody came in and moved around a little bit, it would have gone off," said Hemet police Lt. Duane Wisehart. "At the very least, it would have leveled the building and killed whoever was inside."

Wisehart told the Southwest Riverside News Network that there is no doubt the trap was meant for members of the Hemet/San Jacinto Valley Gang Task Force.

Officers arriving for work were saved by their instincts."They were able to recognize right away that something was wrong," Wisehart told the North County Times.

[happinesswithoutpeace]

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[spokeshave]

I thought this was Hemet in Afghanistan.... :-(

[dep]

as a rule, when you post stuff like this it is really, really good to put the location in the headline as in (CA) or somesuch. because most everyone has never heard of this place.

[Ladycalif]

Must be those “disgruntled Vets” they warned us about. (sarc)

[glock rocks]

Some heads-up thinking saved some lives here.

As Squantos says: Stay Safe!

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

At first glance I thought their helmet’s blew up. What?

[GeronL]

California becomes Venezuela?

[Lazamataz]

Explode in Hemet

Explode in Helmet?

[Ladycalif]

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=hemet%20ca&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wl

[Ladycalif]

Or Mexico?

[Lazamataz]

So who’s helmet exploded?

[grey_whiskers]

Hemet is usually pretty close to Shemet.

Whichever one is North, and which is South, varies.

Cheers!

[Balding_Eagle]

as a rule, when you post stuff like this it is really, really good to put the location in the headline as in (CA) or somesuch. because most everyone has never heard of this place.

Hemet is just north of Sholdas

[melsec]

So who’s helmet exploded?

lol That was my first read as well - those dang exploding helmets when are the gubberment gunna do sufin bout dem.

Mel

[ansel12]

Gang task force members in Hemet are lucky to alive Thursday after they noticed their office was flooded with natural gas in an apparently deliberate attempt to cause a deadly explosion, police said. "It was basically designed so that once somebody came in and moved around a little bit, it would have gone off," said Hemet police Lt. Duane Wisehart. "At the very least, it would have leveled the building and killed whoever was inside."

I don't get it, you walk in and smell gas, you turn off the gas, what does it mean "It was basically designed so that once somebody came in and moved around a little bit, it would have gone off,"?

Once I went with a friend to evict a tenant, no one answered the door but I thought that I smelled gas, so I told my friend, "let's go back downstairs and turn it off at the meter, fetch a ladder and go through a window (in case the door was rigged)", it just wasn't a big deal.

[sig226]

I think this will qualify for the stupidest act of 2009. Just in time, too.

[TLI]

Officers arriving for work were saved by their instincts."

Good grief. What drivel. They were "saved" by their noses when they went in and smelled the damn gas. The End.

[Amberdawn]

Just what I was thinking-another gift from Mexico in that they have no compuntion about killing cops.

[cva66snipe]

You're dealing with a lot of variables. A few weeks ago in Knoxville a house blew up due to gas. I mean as in nothing left gone. No real warning and two of the residents were asleep and were blown out of the house and survived. Their son who likely must have been the unfortunate one to trigger the spark when he came home didn't make it out alive.

Gas can concentrate in lower areas like basements, air ducts, etc, and blow a structure sky high with nary a sniff of foul odor noticed.