This has gone to far. What im gonna is ok to ignore. Im ranting

[kimba1]

It too complicated to post all the links that ate involve so im ok for you to believe i made this all up.

We all know about the kid who got busted for making a clock. Of course alot of anti-texas comments started to popup. As a result an actor from the show aroow tweeted that it's wrong to stereotype texas also. In a ridiculous short amount of time he's being branded a racist and people are boycotting the show.


I very truely wish he would say go fuck yourself. This is beyond crazy.

[Xavier_Onassis]

It is wrong to have condemned this kid from coming to school with a digital clock he put together, and it is wrong to suggest that there are not equally stupid and paranoid cops and teachers in any pert of this country.

It this thing HAD BEEN a bomb, it would have already been detonated, perhaps removing all witnesses from the scene.

But it wasn't. 

And the various people who condemned this kid and suspended him from school should be told to go fuck themselves, but it would have done no good, they would not have fucked themselves due to (among other things) incompetence.

President Obama did the right thing to have invited the kid to the White House. The United States needs to make it clear that we are not in a war with Islam or a billion Muslims.

[kimba1]

Im just saying it's not racist to defend texans

[Plane]

I am not surprised that a teacher and a few police do not recognize electronic components and do not know much about bombs.

There are lots of places this could have happened.

Where are school teachers getting intensive EOD training?

Is recognizing bombs really a responsibility of teachers?

The Police have less excuse, for them a few school hours spent on how bombs work would be a good idea.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/30/us/30jewell.html?_r=0


Remember Mr.Jewell?
His recognizing a real bomb probably saved a dozen lives.

Then that he recognized the bomb as a bomb made him a suspect for building it , because how else would he have known?
 

[hnumpah]

I learned about electronics during my high school years, rebuilding a WWII era HAM radio.

I became interested in bombs and trigger circuits after reading some spy novel 'way back when where some bomber supposedly planted a bomb that couldn't be disarmed. Of course the good guys found a new method to defeat the various triggers and disarm it. I devised a new trigger to defeat their new method.

When I enlisted in the Army, I originally wanted to go into Explosive Ordinance Disposal, with a view toward becoming an international terrorist once I got out - I figured the best way to learn to build bombs was learn how to take them apart first. My girlfriend and mom were horrified I might want a job where your first mistake could be your last, and they talked me into pursuing another field of electronics study, cryptographic equipment repair. That required a top secret crypto clearance, so naturally I never told the people doing my background investigation about my unrequited dream of being an international terrorist.

(Sigh)

[kimba1]

At fourteen i made mercury switch out of wood ,ball bearings and nails. Bomb making is the interest of most teenage boy with mechanical ability

[Xavier_Onassis]

When I was in junior high, a kid named Danny Drennon and I used to make rockets out of vacuum cleaner tubing we bought at the Goodwill. We set our rockets off in the baseball field behind the Elementary School. We tried a variety of formulas we read about in magazines and chemistry textbooks. The biggest rocket was four and a half feet tall. I can't remember what the fuel we used was, bit it was a mixture of two we had tried separately. We mixed them together just to see what would happen.

What happened was the rocket fell over on its side just before the fuse hit the fuel and it blew up with a really loud noise, followed by several metal fragments raining down. It also resulted in a lot of smoke.

We ran like hell and passed a cop car that was apparently responding to a complaint.

The crater was about six inches deep.

I doubt that kids could get away with this now.

[Plane]

  Not too long ago we had a bomb scare at work.

   Someone had sealed a co2 pellet into a 2L soda bottle and tossed this in the trashcan.

    I was not there but I know that these are loud noisemakers.

     Next thing was the FBI and GBI fingerprinted all that trash.

[Xavier_Onassis]

Perhaps we should do this more often to keep them on their toes.

[Plane]

  No.

  They really have plenty to spoil their mood already.

    A lot of little annoyances add up.

[Xavier_Onassis]

CO2 pellets are ammo. They do not explode.

If you want to blow up a soda bottle, you would probably use Calcium Carbide pellets and water.
Vinegar and soda will also work.
Also dry ice and water.

Soda bottles make a lot of noise when they blow up. But you can also make an impressive rocket using them

When I was a kid, there were no plastic bottles, and glass bottles either cannot be sealed as well or are dangerous, because of the  flying glass.

oil cans were foil and paper or metal, soft drinks and cooking oil ca=me in glass or occasionally metal. The type of plastic used the bottles today either had not been invented or was too expensive to manufacture.

[kimba1]

A spraywater bottle , rubbing alcohol and a lighter will normally stop must teenagers from pursuing home made explosives. Im only guessing

[Xavier_Onassis]

Rubbing alcohol is usually about 30% water and is not as flammable as pure alcohol.
I have not tried this, but I don't think it is a good idea.

When you squeeze the trigger on the spray bottle, some of the alcohol will likely get on your trigger finger, which then might catch fire.

Spray starting fluid or even aerosol deodorant would surely be more spectacular. But I would not recommend any of this.

Things that go "bang!" and "boom!" at a distance can be fun. setting children on fire is not at all desirable.

I would not recommend spraying flaming substances on children for any reason. No good could come of it.

[kimba1]

The bottle needs a semi mist setting so the spray doesn't shoot a stream. This way the spray is misty enough to ignite. So far none of it has gotten on the trigger. But only problem is the alcohol in a few days corrode the trigger and its no good anymore. It's great for burning the wings off a fly in mid flight. Maybe. The beauty with rubbing alcohol is that its abit safer than other flammables

[Xavier_Onassis]

It is probably the water in the alcohol that corrodes the metal. Pure alcohol will not corrode anything.