I don’t recall what my four acquaintances were using for explosive materials, since this was over 30 years ago. For some reason I think it was black powder, but could not swear to it now.
For better or worse, it seems my neighborhood was a hotbed of teen terrorists, as there had been a long tradition of homemade bombs for about 10-15 years among the local kids. We spent a day building a dam in the drainage ditch behind our house, the centerpiece of which was a large log. The Reike brothers made some sort of bomb and blew the log about 20 feet in the air. Spattered in mud, we all melted into the bushes before the Sheriff arrived.
My brother spent the better part of an afternoon filing the powder off several boxes of sparklers, then filling the hull of a plastic USS Arizona model battleship. It went up like its namesake, but on a smaller version.
I won’t even mention what happened on “gasoline night.”
But with what we were doing, it was only a matter of time before some terrible tragedy happened. And it did.
From the other thread on this topic - if accurate, pretty much rules out “kids playing”....
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The additional info from the radio was that there was a second “controlled explosion” of an item near the headless body. Also reported that body was a male and likely older than 30 years old.
88 posted on Tuesday, September 14, 2010 11:05:21 AM by Velveeta
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