Posted on 10/24/2010 9:24:52 PM PDT by naturalman1975
A SMALL home-made device exploded in a toilet in the restroom of a fast food outlet in western Sydney but no one was injured, police say.
The device was detonated in the men's toilet cubicle at a McDonald's restaurant on High St in Penrith at around 9.10pm (AEDT) yesterday.
"The explosion damaged the toilet cistern and an air vent," NSW police said today in a statement.
"There was nobody in the restroom at the time.
"The remnants of a crudely made explosive device was found and taken for forensic examination."
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lol, I wonder what the damage assessment was after that science project!
Merely a caver emptying his carbide light residue in the toilet. Innocent accident
The worst we did was back in junior high school when we got back at our math teacher, who was a mean, tough-as-nails taskmaster that no one liked.
Before she came into class one day, we took a firecracker with a string on each end that exploded when you pulled it apart and tied one end to her chair leg and one to her desk leg. She came in about ten minutes later, and when she pulled her chair out, that thing exploded and I swear she levitated about a foot off the floor.
None of us involved would talk for fear of death, so she kept the entire class after school for one hour as punishment.
I had heard that a stern letter listing the total damages had been sent to a select group of parents.
I do not recall any numbers but I do recall the washrooms being out of service in that wing. Also seeing them cart off a large pile of cast iron pipe.
A couple of McDonalds I’ve been in look like a bomb has already gone off.
Ah, yes. Water does interesting things to calcium carbide and metallic sodium. ;-)
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