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| Explosives-Hoarder Is Harmless, Say NM Neighbors | |
| 2010-05-13 | |
| The man accused of having an arsenal of explosives at his Belen NM home is out of jail on bond Wednesday night. Joe McFarlin, 62, faces a felony charge for possession of explosives. On Tuesday, investigators removed 20 pounds of explosives, blasting caps, detonators, and chemicals inside McFarlin's home on Pueblitos Road. Neighbors say causing harm wasn't McFarlin's plan. Van Johnson says, "I don't think he would do anything like that, Joe is a very honest guy, he's always been honest with me, he's always been honest with other people and--like I said-- he would help you out, if you needed help." Neighbor Jaysen Schraff says, "He didn't have any reason for blowing things up." New Mexico, so far from heaven Terrorism has been ruled out in the case, but investigators are still looking into why McFarlin has the explosives.
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| Posted by:Anguper Hupomosing9418 |
| #11 Got you all beat, was told I need to do something to green up the plants in the greenhouse. So now it's time to order a couple hundred pounds of ammonium nitrate. As the saying goes a lot of us here know how to cause trouble. Just remember the label a quick kick for the long haul. |
| Posted by: Guillibaldo Unusing2147 2010-05-13 16:54 |
| #10 I know a number of people who have 20 pounds of explosives - if they disassemble all their ammo. Ummm, Glenmore if not enclosed it's no longer an explosive, it just burns and fizzes. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2010-05-13 16:09 |
| #9 I see my fingeers are misbehaving again, sorry. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2010-05-13 16:02 |
| #8 I remember that, I made plenty of matchhead bombs. Take several Kitchen matches and with your Scout Knife gently remove the tips, (Gently) Fold the tips into tinfoil and either hit with a hammer, or heat with a Magnifying glass (Hammer works better) Also you can make a pretty good Explosive Bullet by putting a kitchen match in a BB gun and shooting at something had, Little Bang when jt hit. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2010-05-13 16:00 |
| #7 Things change. This guy is my age and when I was a kid, the local hobby store showed us how to make small bombs using matcheads, copper pipe and model train transformers. Advanced courses in making your own black gunpowder. This guy just may not have kept up with the changing mores. sigh. |
| Posted by: Spaise de Medici1729 2010-05-13 15:53 |
| #6 20 pounds is about the minimum it's worth purchasing at a time (to remove stumps, take out boulders, etc). Easy to accumulate that as "leftovers" from even a medium size project. |
| Posted by: Flailet White6069 2010-05-13 13:38 |
| #5 When I camp at Bandelier National Monument, hardly a day passes without loud explosions coming from the Los Alamos National Lab site, across the road from the campground. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2010-05-13 12:51 |
| #4 I'd consider 20 pounds insignificant, given that possessing that amount does not result in scarcity of supply. |
| Posted by: flash91 2010-05-13 11:33 |
| #3 I plead the 5th. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2010-05-13 11:28 |
| #2 I know a number of people who have 20 pounds of explosives - if they disassemble all their ammo. |
| Posted by: Glenmore from elsewhere 2010-05-13 10:19 |
| #1 The next major interstate exit south of Belen is Socorro New Mexico home of New Mexico Tech, engineering, mining and the 'boom' school. They do a lot of explosives work, class and study. Advanced adult education, ie training classes for civilian EODs. Just north of Belen in the southern edge of Albuquerque is Sandia National Laboratories which conducts 'booms' a couple times a year that can be heard and felt just as far Belen. They were the one's who determined the most probable cause of the USS Iowa's turret explosion. We're not going to even mention Trinity site in New Mexico. So he's in the right neighborhood to take his hobby out to the boonies for a little boom time. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2010-05-13 09:04 |