Posted on 06/25/2005 6:08:28 AM PDT by Ramonan
RAMONA – A 21-year-old man suffered serious injuries to his hands Thursday when a homemade dry-ice bomb blew up as he held it, the Sheriff's Department reported.
Sheriff's deputies said the device detonated about 6:30 p.m. in the parking lot of an auto parts store on Main Street, severely lacerating the victim's hands between the thumbs and forefingers.
Investigators from the Sheriff's Bomb/Arson unit learned that the victim, an assistant manager in the store, was seen assembling the bomb inside the store and had carried it out to the parking lot. He was seen shaking the device with both hands moments before it exploded, said Sheriff's Lt. Edna Ito.
Making dry-ice bombs is a felony under California law, punishable by a maximum of one year in custody and/or a $10,000 fine. – Gregory Alan Gross
I'm not condoning or recommending making dry-ice bombs, but I did it in college a few times (in a huge field out in the country).
The fact that this guy did this on Main Street while on duty at an auto parts store is just the beginning of his stupidity. This fruitcake did everything he could to screw up.
LMAO swolled up! If my hand had a gaping hole in it, it would swoll up too.
Another trick: to fill a hatbox, fitted with a short tube through the lid, with natural gas (propane would probably work OK for this too). Ignite the gas at the tube. Flame burns at the tube awhile, then seems to go out. Ten minutes or so later, box goes kaboom. (Hatboxes have lids that slip over the bottom part, so exploding box only shoots lid up into the air. At least that's how it was described in the "magic book")
Probably too much leakage past the cap to get the requisite head of pressure in the bottle. After all those caps were made to withstand the pressure of a shaken soda, but not that of a much more prodigious source of CO2.
Every grocery store I've been to in Colorado sells dry ice. It's used for keeping stuff cool on camping trips without getting everything wet.
"I don't know what is stupider, this man for the stunt, or the law that makes such stupidity (shake up some dry ice and water in a pop bottle) into a felony."
I am against laws that hinder the process of natural selection.
Someone tried to store CO2 pellets in a 16 oz soft drink bottle in a refrigerator freezer. When it finally blew it sent the freezer door across the room and bent it (and the refrigerator) like it had been hit by a truck.
The key is the amount of pressure the plastic bottle will hold - and the damage it can do. Thus the felony penalty if done with intent to harm.
But if the intent is just to be a jackass...
As a kid we used to use carbide...which miners use to light lamps in helmet. A little spit on a rock of carbide...and empty oj can..light the gas and blow that sucker. I never lost a finger. Don't know if it was illegal. So I guess I was just young and lucky? Wonder if they guy was going to bomb the store he worked in?
Where does the acid go when that happens? This sounds like a somewhat hazardous thing to try around biological entities.
"It's all swolled up."
I think anyone who has worked in or around grocery stores would know what they are. They pack a pretty good punch.
It always happens to the fat guy.
I hope this year's award goes to the guy who tried to hold up the beauty school and was beat half to death with curling irons.
BTW, can anyone explain the purpose of a dry ice bomb? Never heard of this before.
I know about potato guns and zip guns, but never heard of dry ice bombs till today. That beauty school story was great. I'll bet that one goes over well in the joint *lol*
I just posted a reply asking what it was. I shudda read through the thread first....duh. :-)
Like I said, I've heard of dry ice. My high school general science teacher froze a banana and used to hammer a nail into a board.
It's the dry ice bomb I'm talking about. Can anyone point me to a TV show or movie where a dry ice bomb was made or mentioned? What I'm saying is that this is not common knowledge and when something is not common knowledge, it is incumbent on the reporter to explain.
As a young Boy Scout (apparently in the very BAD Boy Scout Troop) we used to make Alka-Seltzer bombs by putting Alka-Seltzer and water into a jar, screwing the lid on tightly, waiting a bit and they throwing it against something hard. But then I was about 12 years old.
This was also the Boy Scout troop where before meetings we would lie in the bushes in front of the church where we met and with our BB guns try to shoot the give away dishes on display outside the gas station across the street from the church. Not exactly good Boy Scout behavior.
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