Teenage Girls, Boy Feuds, Homemade Liquid Bombs
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CaptainChewbacca
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Well sure, any idiot with a computer and a debit card can build a bomb. What shocks me is these girls did THAT good a job on their first try. I'm sure the police will want to know EXACTLY what they did. If you can easily put something that destructive through someone's mail slot with stuff you find in a hardware store, that's worth the police knowing.
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If you read the article closely you'll see how much of it is Daily Mail spin most likely. First the title starts off with "ZOMG CHILDREN BLOWING US UP, I BLAME THE IMMIGRANTS". Followed by "Oh well this MAY have happened, 'someone' saw a purple liquid kekek". Paraphrased of course, but you have to realise The Daily Mail is about as accurate as Fox News, possibly less.
Don't you think if a few kids managed to brew up enough liquid explosive to level a few houses it would hit more news than The Daily Mail? I've not seen it anywhere else, but I'm being skeptical until a worthy news source picks it up.
Don't you think if a few kids managed to brew up enough liquid explosive to level a few houses it would hit more news than The Daily Mail? I've not seen it anywhere else, but I'm being skeptical until a worthy news source picks it up.
Yay.
Nothing in the BBC, but does the Daily Telegraph count as a worthy news source (honestly asking, I'm not all that well informed about the British media)? If so, the Telegraph also reports this, giving some more detail.Namarie wrote:Don't you think if a few kids managed to brew up enough liquid explosive to level a few houses it would hit more news than The Daily Mail? I've not seen it anywhere else, but I'm being skeptical until a worthy news source picks it up.
The BBC does have itNamarie wrote:If you read the article closely you'll see how much of it is Daily Mail spin most likely. First the title starts off with "ZOMG CHILDREN BLOWING US UP, I BLAME THE IMMIGRANTS". Followed by "Oh well this MAY have happened, 'someone' saw a purple liquid kekek". Paraphrased of course, but you have to realise The Daily Mail is about as accurate as Fox News, possibly less.
Don't you think if a few kids managed to brew up enough liquid explosive to level a few houses it would hit more news than The Daily Mail? I've not seen it anywhere else, but I'm being skeptical until a worthy news source picks it up.
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There's a few things in this which add to the confusion. One is that the impression originally given was that the liquid was poured through the letter box and the explosion followed immediately. That isn't so; there was a gap of ten hours between the liquid arriving and the explosion. The other is that there is no idea what this liquid was; that suggests the stories about finding the recipe on the internet are an assumption.
****My guess**** is that the purple liquid was a solution of trinitrogen triiodide. It was poured through (its stable as a liquid) to soak into the carpet/rugs by the front door. It then dried out over a period of time and thus became highly dangerous. ****Getting really speculative here**** the perps may have been hoping the intended victim would step on it and get anything from a bad scare to her feet blown off. Trinitrogen triodide is so unstable when dry it can literally be set off by a feather touching it. The power of the blast is remarkable though.
****My guess**** is that the purple liquid was a solution of trinitrogen triiodide. It was poured through (its stable as a liquid) to soak into the carpet/rugs by the front door. It then dried out over a period of time and thus became highly dangerous. ****Getting really speculative here**** the perps may have been hoping the intended victim would step on it and get anything from a bad scare to her feet blown off. Trinitrogen triodide is so unstable when dry it can literally be set off by a feather touching it. The power of the blast is remarkable though.
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I also wonder if part of the destruction might have been older/poorly maintained or designed housing that increased the damage beyond what the actual explosive caused...
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Libertarian philosophy can be boiled down to the phrase, "Work Will Make You Free."
In Libertarianism, there is no Government, so the Bosses are free to exploit the Workers.
In Communism, there is no Government, so the Workers are free to exploit the Bosses.
So in Libertarianism, man exploits man, but in Communism, its the other way around!
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As far as liquid goes, I'm not sure. But RDX (and thus C4 or an approximation thereof) is so frighteningly easy to make just thinking about it makes me poop a little in my pants.
Bubble Boy wrote:That was my exact train of thought.Gil Hamilton wrote:I'm... kind of impressed.
Maybe this makes me sound guilty, but now I'm sorely tempted to look up online myself to see just how easy it really is to build a home made bomb.
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thats really impressive. where do these girls go to school? and who is the chemistry teacher? I'm pretty sure they blew a gas pipe, because that picture looks to bad for the amount of liquid you could push through the mail slot at all quickly. still impressive.
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Well, the article says that they examined the gas pipes and found no damage, so this may have been just the bomb.
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Well, anyone living near a filling station and a reasonably stocked kitchen can make a fairly substantial bomb. The fact that some dumbass teenagers were able to make one and knock down a couple houses AND not kill themselves in the process is kind of impressive to me.Wicked Pilot wrote:I'm not. Anyone with an internet connection can build something explosive. Building a bomb from raw ingredients that can be effectively used as a weapon is an entirely different game.
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