[diogenes ghost]

"..so do not panic when you see a soda can.." Ding, Ding - We have a winner. I'm just astounded by the reactions on a supposedly 'conservative' site. Your comment hits the paranoia nail on the head, but you are surely going to get flamed. We gotta watch out for the children, don'tcha know.

[DBrow]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1776926/posts?q=1&&page=602

I did it better on the post linked above.

I dunno, yours is the first comment and the two posts have been up for hours.

Soda can IEDs are real; they even had them in 'nam, and there have been casualties in Nam, Afghanistan, Iraq, and who knows where else.

Then there are VBIEDs- Vehicle Based Improvised Explosive Devices. They look just like cars parked by the side of the road, and in Boston, you may see a car parked here and there. They are deadly because the bad guys pack explosive into the doors and behind body panels, turning the car into a shrapnel device.

[DBrow]

http://www.devilducky.com/media/56891/

Here is a great car bomb vid- you can see the air shock moving away.

If you freeze the vid at the beginning, you can see that there is nothing to give the nature of the thing away.