Posted on 12/31/2011 1:35:20 PM PST by Just4Him
MIDLAND, Texas (AP) -- A man was detained Saturday after trying to go through a security checkpoint at a Texas airport with explosives in military-grade wrapping, federal and local officials said.
The man was stopped at a security checkpoint at the Midland International Airport about 9 a.m. and taken into custody by the FBI, they said.
FBI spokesman Mike Martinez declined to say whether the man was in military uniform or how many explosives were found in the bag. He said he did not know where the man was being held, saying he was at either the airport or at the FBI office in Midland.
City of Midland spokeswoman Tasa Watts said she had no information on the suspect but the explosives were wrapped in military-grade wrapping. She said the specific grade won't be known until the explosives are tested.
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Must be a Tea Partier.
Well, everyone who saw li’l Elky on the return trip knew to give him lots of room on the road! LOL
C4 block
$0.25 per pack from a vending machine in front of the local grocery/drug store. There were 2 newly-minted pennies inside the celophane that I always got to keep for running the errand.
I was also able to ride my Schwin stingray to the same store on any Sunday afternoon with a .22 rifle on the handlebars, buy a box of ammunition for it, a pack of cigarettes, candy bars and Dr. Peppers for myself and tour on out to a (sometimes) dry lakebed and shoot rabbits all afternoon at the age of 9.
(sigh)
Can anyone clarify or define ‘military style wrapping?’
Not in camo-pattern gift wrap?
Wonder if this was a souvenir for his family of some already blasted (or neutralized) devices, with minute bits of explosive residue but not enough to create a bomb or anything menacing. And he failed to realize that “Homeland Security” has no more common sense left.
Yeah, but for some reason, they seem to have no trouble finding the asses of airline passengers.
” There were 2 newly-minted pennies inside the celophane “
Don’t forget the matches - depending on the machine, ya always got one or two packs of matches with each pack of cigarettes...
(And they were the good kind - the kind you could light with one hand... ;))
I couldn’t actually buy smokes nor did I particularly care for a lot of it in my presence (my eyes and nose were too liberal), but my folks would get me both boxes of cigars and cartons of cigarettes to give as holiday presents to my uncles! Which I would duly wrap and tag “To Uncle Murgatroyd From HiTech” (names falsified to protect the guilty and the innocent).
Paper or plastic?
Nearly everybody had a case of dynamite somewhere in those days. You only had to worry about it when it got a little old and starting sweating nitroglycerine.
LOL! Too true.
Why the strike anywhere kitchen match got banned — dunno the official story, but seems vermin sometimes chewed on the match heads and lit them? So instead of having boxes of them, or their heads, made vermin repellent, they just went out of existence. Paper matches, which still exist, seem riskier to me as you have to withdraw your finger at the exact right time after pressing and scraping the head against the friction strip. Which would sometimes lead to fumbling and dropping it. I never liked them very well, preferring rigid matches.
I remember that country. It was called ‘America’, back when it was a sovereign republic. It had a dangerous organizing principle called ‘liberty’, which has been progressively phased out as we have been integrated into the New World Order. Now we have ‘homeland security’, which is much warmer and fuzzier than scary old liberty.
I got gypped! I never used to get to keep the pennies. But then I only remember the pennies from a Florida trip my family took. I think the price of the cigarettes went up to 28 cents so you had to put 30 cents in the machine and the change was returned inside the cellophane.
ML/NJ
Quite so, which was why percussion caps were needed. Toss a stick of fresh dynamite in a fire and it would simply burn like wood. I never knew how much of a real risk that CB and mobile ham radios posed to causing caps to detonate prematurely. Maybe this risk only occurs when they’re wired up to one of those old plunger-type detonators, where a complete circuit existed at all times. Then the leads, which were not a twisted pair, could act as an antenna. Did dad tell you to be sure to keep the caps in a separate bag from the dynamite?
Yes, indeedy.
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