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Driver Loses Hand in Jeep Explosion in Spokane
ABC News ^ | 1-25-14 | Gene Johnson AP

Posted on 01/25/2014 3:59:55 PM PST by smokingfrog

An explosion from a firecracker inside a moving Jeep blew off the driver's hand early Saturday and scattered debris over half a block in Spokane, prompting initial fears over the man's intent, police and neighbors said.

Witnesses saw a flash of light from inside the vehicle, a red Jeep with a gray top, as it drove down a residential street, police said.

Donald Wilkes, 61, said the blast rattled his house and woke up everyone inside. He initially thought someone had crashed into his parked truck, and when he ran outside, he found the street filled with smoke and the Jeep stopped just against his 6-foot-tall cedar fence.

"I looked around for something that got hit, but there was nothing," Wilkes said. "My son reached in to pull the keys out of the ignition and make sure he didn't go anywhere, and that's when we saw his hand was missing. It blew it right off at his wrist — they found part of it half a block away."

Wilkes' son, 30-year-old Nicholas, and another neighbor applied a tourniquet to the man's left arm. The man was stocky, estimated at about 28 to 30 years old, and coherent. But he wouldn't answer questions about what he had been doing, Wilkes said.

"All he did was look at my son and say, 'Oh God, oh God.' He looked like he was going to pass out," Wilkes said. "My main concern was why he was driving around my neighborhood at 1 in the morning with an explosive device."

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: explosivedevice; m1000; weird
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To: smokingfrog
Ahmed had a premature detonation.
41 posted on 01/25/2014 4:43:37 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (“Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it and at whom it is aimed.”— Joseph Sta)
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To: RitchieAprile

M 80


42 posted on 01/25/2014 4:43:47 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: smokingfrog

However, one does have to HAND it to him!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


43 posted on 01/25/2014 4:44:08 PM PST by AEMILIUS PAULUS (It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
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To: laplata

A fool I knew put an M80 with fuse lit into a toilet at a burger joint and flushed it.

A few seconds later the toilet blew off of the floor, and a rumble cascaded through town as just about every manhole lid in town flew up.


44 posted on 01/25/2014 4:49:06 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: smokingfrog

M-1000 per the article

45 posted on 01/25/2014 4:50:38 PM PST by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: RightGeek

We live in a world full of dummies.


46 posted on 01/25/2014 4:54:15 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: editor-surveyor

Fortunately many of them practice on themselves.


47 posted on 01/25/2014 4:59:32 PM PST by meatloaf (Impeach Obama. That's my New Year's resolution.)
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To: meatloaf

The fool probably forgot to roll the window down before throwing it.


48 posted on 01/25/2014 5:11:01 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: smokingfrog

Should have been driving a VW instead of a Jeep...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnL-7x4n4d8


49 posted on 01/25/2014 5:14:58 PM PST by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
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To: smokingfrog

that wasn’t just a sile firecracker. media reporting trivializes this by saying firecracker.


50 posted on 01/25/2014 5:16:14 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: smokingfrog

When I was growing up M-80s were that strong and
even cherry bombs were nothing to sneeze at.

There is actually a pic on the internet
of some guy from Thailand who was holding an
M-80 in his mouth to light it and it went off,
turned his face inside out, horrible.
We blew up lots of stuff when I was a kid, never
got hurt but came close a couple of times, we used
to throw smoke bombs, had one go off in my hand once,
quit fooling around after that.


51 posted on 01/25/2014 5:19:39 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: editor-surveyor

Wow.


52 posted on 01/25/2014 5:26:34 PM PST by laplata (Liberals don't get it .... their minds are diseased.)
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To: tet68

Yeah, we respected M-80’s. But we had a lot of fun with them.


53 posted on 01/25/2014 5:29:04 PM PST by laplata (Liberals don't get it .... their minds are diseased.)
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To: smokingfrog

Too bad he didn’t hold it between his legs.

Critters like that shouldn’t breed.


54 posted on 01/25/2014 5:39:29 PM PST by lightman (O Lord, save Thy people and bless Thine inheritance, giving to Thy Church vict'ry o'er Her enemies.)
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To: RitchieAprile
MyNews4 adds
"... and police say more explosives were found inside the vehicle."

55 posted on 01/25/2014 5:42:20 PM PST by wtd
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To: RitchieAprile

One man’s firecracker is another mans stick of dynamite.

BTW, firecrackers are called that because they flash and make a loud cracking sound. When they do real damage, they are something that is not a firecracker.


56 posted on 01/25/2014 5:49:57 PM PST by cuban leaf
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To: wtd

http://www.king5.com/news/local/Man-loses-hand-in-Jeep-explosion-in-North-Spokane—241968881.html

Spokane Police Officers and SPD’s Explosive Disposal Unit responded to the scene along with ATF agents, AMR, and the Spokane Fire Department. Police cordoned off streets in the area due to the possibility there might be explosives in the Jeep. Additional explosives were found inside, and a bomb squad was on scene until 7 a.m. defusing them.

———> They insist on calling it a ‘Jeep explosion’ for some reason. Sheesh!


57 posted on 01/25/2014 5:51:40 PM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: RightGeek

GIVE NATURAL SELECTION A CHANCE said the bumper sticker.

“He read, therefore he acted.”


58 posted on 01/25/2014 5:59:21 PM PST by GladesGuru (Islam Delenda Est - because of what Islam is and because of what Muslims do.)
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To: Tijeras_Slim; tet68

im gonna swag this and suggest lefty had a artillery simulator and the breeze at speed in said jeep accelerated the quick match from 4 seconds to 2 seconds….. he’s active or former GI. Anything else and he would be pissing out his ear for the rest of his life……

Stay Safe !


59 posted on 01/25/2014 5:59:31 PM PST by Squantos ( Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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To: Squantos

Probably right, that would sure do it.


60 posted on 01/25/2014 6:04:57 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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