[NavyCanDo]

Looks like it may be Eco Terrorist. A coal-fired power plant was just down the track, a possible target. This area is just a short drive from the very Leftist Evergreen State University in Olympia, a breading ground for the Northwest worse.

[sionnsar]

Say WA? Evergreen State ping

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[Psycho_Bunny]

"Trans Alta employee who did not recognize it as a bomb and transported it...The device was a five-gallon propane tank with green and yellow wires coming out the tank."

I'd consider laying someone that dumb off. Seriously.

[sionnsar]

An explosive device with the potential to deliver "an incredible amount of destructive power" ... a five-gallon propane tank

Oh, c'mon. Unless it's a pocket nuke (or there is something I don't know), all incredulity (or credulousness) belongs to the clueless reporter.

[jazusamo]

Eco Terrorism is a possibility with the other problems in the past.

Courtesy photo
A homemade bomb sits on the back of a rail truck where a TransAlta employee placed it after finding it along a railroad track Wednesday. Its blasting cap had been activated, but the small amount of black powder inside did not detonate.

[SmithL]

I prefer battered to breaded.
; )

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Bomb disposal guys must just love all these do-it-yourself imbeciles.

I remember some DIY explosive that was popular just a few years ago, mostly because it was easy to make in a home refrigerator. But what they didn’t mention was that it was about as unstable as crystallized nitroglycerin. It was mostly made by fools who thought they were making cool firecrackers or something.

One idiot actually called the police over some petty thing. When they showed up they saw a pile of white powder on his kitchen table. “Oh, that’s not drugs,” he told them, “that’s some ‘flash powder’ I made.”

This did not make things “all better”, for some reason.

It took HAZMAT half a day to clean out the place.

[Ramius]

Good grief. Centralia ping.

Looks like the Greeners are getting frisky.

[American in Israel]

Sounds like a teenager having fun. The power plant was over a mile away.

[nw_arizona_granny]

Ping.

[SeaHawkFan]

Looks like it may be Eco Terrorist. A coal-fired power plant was just down the track, a possible target.

The new owners of the power plant are in the process of shutting down the mine because of the low quality of the coal and will be bringing in coal by rail car for other states in the west. Could just be a disgruntled miner.

[Old Professer]

“After arriving at the scene, the bomb squad x-rayed the tank, and removed a blasting cap from the device. The blasting cap had been activated but the powder inside the tank for unknown reasons had not detonated.”

Couldn’t have been a lack of free oxygen, now could it?