Bombs In Maine!!!
Occupy Maine adjusts, beefs up security watches after chemical bomb attack
PORTLAND, Maine — Members of Portland’s Occupy Maine encampment have increased security shifts and moved their kitchen area to within view of nearby Cumberland County Courthouse video cameras after a chemical bomb incident early Sunday morning.
A description of the infernal device:
Portland police Lt. Gary Rogers, speaking earlier in the day Tuesday, said “typically a chemical bomb is made in a plastic bottle with common household items, that, when combined, can cause some expansion and then an explosion.”
If that description is accurate I’ve made more than a few of the devices myself. And no; I won’t describe the gizmo here! Makes a more of a POP than a boom though.
I’ve been kinda expecting thrown fire crackers or maybe a stink bomb (who’d notice). Sure looks like no more than a kids prank regardless.
These folks do enjoy their drama:
“It was no small noise, that’s for sure,” Lamson told the Bangor Daily News. “It lifted a table up that would have taken two people to lift, so it was no small force, either. It didn’t cause a fire, but it was dangerous.”
Exit question: I’m no EOD type, but aren’t ALL bombs chemical bombs? Except maybe Nukes… been 40 years since I went to THAT school.
Category: Geezer Alert!, General Whackos, Protests/Rallies
Sounds like a MRE bomb.
reaching for that coveted “martyr” or “victim” status. Geez.
I guess they’ve never seen what dry ice and water in a 2 liter pop bottle will do?
Of course, my kind of chemical bombs are far superior to what they used. I know that Jonn, TSO, and Zero know what I’m talkin’ ’bout.
I wonder if someone was listening to George Carlin and deployed a F.A.R.T. team?
Yes technically all explosives are chemical. And technically most are not “explosions” but burning really fast.
But if no one was injured and there was no actual damage I’m thinking this is a prank turned into Martyr Incident
Oh, it’s all over the news up here. They’re reporting that the hippies claim that a “silver car” circled their area several times with “white guys” in it who were yelling things like “get a job”, “get a haircut”, “go home”, etc. prior to this alleged bomb.
We’ll see how long these morons last. It’s getting down into the 30’s at night, and snow & freezing rain is predicted for Thursday.
Really, AW1 Tim? White guys in Maine? They should be easy to find, there are so few.
Ah, frozen hippies. Just warms my heart.
I’ve made MANY MRE bombs in my time, and that was BEFORE I earned my crab! Oh, what fun they were… They’re lucky I wasn’t the one who put it together. I’d have been the asshole to mix in equal parts water and Blair’s After Death hot sauce before I dropped in the appropriate mixture. Homemade CS, anyone?
try doing an MRE bomb in a plastic canteen….now that’s a real explosion. better than a 1.75L liquor bottle.
#9: Ah yes. The favored prank in the aid station. Put a non-explosive MRE-CS grenade in someone’s sleeping bag.
I think we should all mourn the death of the Prank. Yes, gone are the days when you can royally fuck with someone in a way that while dickish will lead to no lasting harm. Gone are the days when you can wake your friends up with rubber spiders, or replace all their boxers with ladies thongs. Alas the trick of screwing every piece of furniture to the ceiling are over.
Young men everywhere will weep everywhere that their fun must now be limited to culturally acceptable and approved forms of joking. When asked why, they will respond that there are too many adults that do not know how to man the F**k up.
When the MRE heater first appeared and we put two & two together, we used glass soda-pop bottles. Talk about a cheap frag
Hippies wouldn’t know a real bomb from a pussy fart…other than the fact that one smells a lot nicer and doesn’t have crabs
And to answer your question, with a hypothetical… It depends on what chemicals you are talking about, LOL. It’s all about semantics. If it was an MRE bomb, or something similar, then that was technically a mechanical bomb. Nothing contained within was capable of a high order detonation in its own right, it just required rapid expansion and adequate compression.
Nukes are nukes… until you start getting into the weeds regarding the chemicals used to separate the initial fission from the fusion, etc. They’re all chemicals, so does that make them all chemical bombs?
White guys in Maine? They should be easy to find, there are so few.
Unless you’re in Lewiston, where it’s a colder version of Mogadishu.
Sparky,
No kidding. Mogadishu Blanco.
I have always wondered about the philosophy behind exporting black muslims to cold climes. I mean, really…… who did those folks piss off to end up in that sort of a situation?
Let’s not even get started on Minneapolis. Oh, crap.
#3 OT,
My first thought. Dry ice in a plastic bottle. But must have been large, to lift a table. Unless we’re talking about a bunch of weak-brained weak-assed hippies who couldn’t lift a bong, much less a card table.
And the historical reference isn’t lost either.
“Bomb the Maine” which story started our war with Cuba, San Juan Hill, and launched the political career of Teddy R.
It’s nice to see mention of the USS Maine. “Remember the Maine” was the cry that carried us into that war with Spain. The mast, as I recall, is at Arlington, along with the remains of the sailors who died in that blast.