Posted on 01/30/2011 4:58:57 PM PST by Libloather
Man hospitalized after pipe bomb goes off behind his house
Updated: Jan 30, 2011 7:25 PM EST
LAKELAND, TN - A pipe bomb explodes behind a house in Lakeland, Tennessee.
Investigators say it happened as three men were making pipe bombs behind the home Saturday.
The explosion severely injured one man's foot. He was taken to the hospital and will be questioned in the case when his condition improves.
Investigators say the pipe bomb went off about a half mile behind the house at 7:30 Saturday morning. When deputies arrived they found the man with an injured foot and two others.
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You used to be able to buy stuff like that in the small classified ads in the back of Popular Science. I bought the formula for nitrogen triiodide — wow, is that a percussive explosive! Luckily the crystals I made were minute. I remember drying the stuff in the backyard screened-in porch. I made the mistake of coming in through the front door and accidentally slamming it. BOOM!
That’s it he was trying to blow off his extra foot.
Perfect example of why they should make pipe bombs illegal.
They still do, but the teachers can't write either.
They wuz gettin’ ready to go fishin’ with boom bait.
Ahhh.....we avoided ingesting the saltpeter! we were very careful.
Well, I said I was sorry, and I paid the price of 3 days out of a 7 day spring vacation, carrying 100-pound bags of fertilizer from a railway freight car to the school pickup truck.
I never tried to mess with explosives again. On the other hand, I certainly became famous for it, among my classmates.
Yes, yes, yes, was it worth it?
Thas right! We ‘uns hear in tinusee is SO inbred an’ stoopid, we go up nawth to sell a truck lode uv watermellons. Whin they’s not soled, we’s come back home to Tinusee an nex time, we’s jes brang us anuther lode of watermellons in a BIGGER TRUCK!! Thas caled bein’ determuned!
I live in TN as well... and it’s “solded” not “soled.” Ainchew got no learnin’? :P
Gotta love it. ;)
Its probably what they get for not cleaning the propellant from the threads.
Powder..patch..ball FIRE!
Or trying to drill a fuse hole after the propellant was loaded...
We sat in a restaurant in Pennsylvania and listened to a bunch of smart Yankees tell that watermelon truck joke about us stupid Tennessee yokels. It WAS funny, and they didn’t see our license plate, so we survived it.
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