LANSING, Mich. -- A man tired of burglars nearly blew off his hand when bomb-like devices he set around his house exploded in his presence instead, authorities said. Victor Iacobescu, 50, ran to a neighbor's house Thursday with a bloody towel wrapped around his right hand.
"Apparently, he was trying to set booby traps to get the next guy who tried to break in," fire Lt. Maggie Murphy said. Iacobescu had been the victim of several break-ins, she said.
The neighbor, Patrick Struble, said the explosives were "like a pipe bomb. He accidentally triggered it, and it almost blew his hand off."
Police were investigating with the intent to pursue charges. "Anything that goes `bang' is illegal," police Lt. Bruce Ferguson said. "I can't think of any (legal) reason why someone would be making a bomb."
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I can't imagine ever being invited to attend a Ramadan dinner.
If I were to be invited - somehow by mistake - I'm certain the questions I'd pose to my hosts during the dinner hour would insure that I'd be asked to leave before dessert with the understanding I would not be welcome to return next year.
In my own way I will be celebrating Ramadan this Saturday by attending a traditional (and authentic) Hungarian "bacon fry". If you ever have the chance to partake of zsiros keny'er, please indulge yourselves. You won't regret it.
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Too bad Ralph Kramden died. He would have won this.
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The challenge isn't in building the robot. The challenge is making a successful rocket that can put a payload on the moon within a decent budget. Can a plane launched rocket put a ten pound package on the moon? How big of a rocket would you need?
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IMO #2 is dead-on. The issue here is Rocket/Space Capitalism in parallel agendas, i.e. dev a cheap and affordable Earth-based George Jetson-style flying car versus beyond-Earth commercial civilian space travel, all outside of normal or heavy Govt control and subsidation.
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Besides which, it is going to cost WAY more than $25 million to do this so the prize money is not the real motivation : it is just the tangible prize for the winner. The real prize will be the commercial spinoffs for the winner : tele-exploration of the Moon via a rover put there by private enterprise; tele-tourism of the Moon as above; government contracts to land items onto the Moon, and then onto Mars; etc.
This prize is just a way to prime the pump of private space development - like the X Prize did for the LEO commercial market now being serviced by Virgin Spaceways.
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LANSING, Mich. -- A man tired of burglars nearly blew off his hand when bomb-like devices he set around his house exploded in his presence instead, authorities said. Victor Iacobescu, 50, ran to a neighbor's house Thursday with a bloody towel wrapped around his right hand.
