Posted on 10/15/2013 6:49:35 AM PDT by Nachum
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — Detectives Tuesday continued their efforts to find the suspect wanted for planting dry ice bombs around Los Angeles International Airport.
One dry ice bomb exploded and two plastic bottles containing the dangerous material were found around 8:30 p.m. Monday at the Tom Bradley International Terminal in a restricted area, Los Angeles Police Department Det. Gus Villanueva said.
No one was injured, and no flights were delayed.
Airport police and a bomb squad cleared the items around 9:45 p.m
On Sunday, a dry ice device exploded inside an employee bathroom at LAX’s Terminal 2. No injuries were reported in that incident.
In both instances, the bombs were left in an area of the airport that require special clearance for access.
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When I first started brewing beer, I had a few CO2 bombs explode in my closet while I was sleeping. I lived in Saudi Arabia at the time and, in my slumber, the breaking glass made me think somebody had thrown a dud grenade through my window. After a few more explosions shortly later, I smelled the beer that sprayed in my closet. The explosions caused no damage at all (except to my precious beer) but made a mess.
There is no physical reason why a dry ice bomb in a glass or plastic vessel would be any more potent. Pressure builds until the vessel fails and then there’s a rapid dispersion of CO2. A pressure vessel may be a make a bigger explosion with dry ice, but I doubt that it would be remotely comparable to a gunpowder explosion.
Ah crap, my son always buys it to make a fog machine on Halloween. (:
TSA worker upset he/she was furloughed.
Two guys are at ground zero of a dry ice explosion, and are laughing about it in the video.
Agreed. Another similar inside job at Disneyland a while back.
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Now dry ice is a “dangerous material.”
Well, it IS frozen carbon dioxide, and we know what THAT does to the environment ...
Sounds like urban legend to me. If the pipe is mostly full of rice, there isn't much volume left over for explosive release. Plus, 8" is a pretty big diameter, so bursting pressure is lower than the same schedule PVC pipe in a smaller diameter.
Anyway, schedule 80 pvc is a world away from the thinwall 2 liter bottles I was picturing.
My kid brother and I used to make home brew with yeast. We did about 24 gallons one summer after harvest and stored them in the basement. Three of the bottles exploded one night in fairly quick succession. It made a big mess, but didn't even break the surrounding glass jugs.
Yeast, as you probably know, produces CO2 as it ferments, similar to the effect of dry ice as it melts.
Needless to say, we were a lot more careful with the quantity of the yeast we used after that.
Linseed oil is a self-igniting firebomb.
TSA employee.
Like the arsonist who likes to watch fire trucks.
“What, pray tell, is a dry ice bomb and what is it supposed to do? I can see dry ice being used as, say, a detonator. But I can’t see it generating a very powerful explosion in and of itself.”
When dry Ice sublimates in a confined space the pressure of the gas can exceed 1000 psi at room temperature. If it’s a plastic bottle the bottle will fail at a much lower pressure but if it were in a metal container it could be very dangerous.
After seeing a couple of Saudis put away more beer at an airport lounge in Bahrain than gets consumed at an average redneck wedding, I've got to wonder how much alcohol is consumed in the officially 100% Islamic country. And I'm not talking about the ex-pat community alone.
Lots. I used to work with a woman (an ethnic Armenian) who grew up in Iran until her teen years. She said there was plenty of drinking and alcohol wasn't hard to get at all.
Similarly, I was once talking to a guy who ran one of those swanky Malibu detox places, and he said that, besides the children of celebrities, their most frequent customers were wealthy middle-easterners. He said that liquor is easy to get over there--especially if you have money--but that there are no treatment options.
Well, I’ll put it this way. In small grocery store in my town, one side of an aisle was dedicated to fruit juice, and most of it was filled with unfermented grape juice. Just opposite were baking goods that included the yeast required for fermentation and sugar for fortification. However, I only discussed the arts of brewing and vinting with other expats.
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