This story certainly isn't disinformation, just a musing by a very security-conscious sort with whom I had a discussion on this a long time ago -- about the time Clinton dropped the football -- when some guy scored an own goal in his garage after picking up the phone in his house as the feds closed in.
HOWEVER ... I truly was amazed by the Google returns. Particularly given the one chiming in of the PA on the "work accident" bit I happened to open. That -- and my hoping to get some comments or insights like yours -- prompted me to go ahead and post it.
Given the arresting disparity in Google returns, I do indeed believe someone's Sending a Message.
As with the Gore campaign (wherein Mr. Environment flooded a dam for a photo op, brought up the Love Canal out of the blue, let his friends at Oxy crank a seven-year pipeling itch with the Injuns in Colombia, fought with NOW and PP over his pro-life record and got locked out of his office by angry gays) it's sometimes hard to get the point across to the Totally Brainwashed Sorts you've worked so long and so hard to dumb down in the name of women's rights, black power, gay pride ... Allah ... or whatever other bit of balkanization works best.
If you wouldn't mind explaining (it's not my forte by any means) ... if pyrotechnic fuses would do the trick as end-run round the pulse, (1) is there any technology which likewise allows for Security Services to sweep an auditorium, building or perimeter clean of explosives rigged thus and (2) are there big drawbacks to pyrotechnics which make them undesirable as a rule?
I'm not a demo expert, but I've seen people play them on TV *grin*
All I know is what they showed us in the army, and stuff I've read since:
Re 1) far as I know, there are sniffers (canine & electronic) that can detect the presence of explosives, but I don't know of any technology that can detonate them remotely.
Re 2) Only thing I can think of is a fuse train isn't instantaneous- but even there, i would think an instantaneous grenade fuse (like in a smoke grenade) attached to some det cord leading into your charge would do the trick.
Lefty? Stumps? 3 Finger Bob? Any ex-demo boys out there who could clear this up?