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2005-10-10 Home Front: WoT

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Posted by Laurence of the Rats 2005-10-10 16:13|| || Front Page|| [11138 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Or rather, Friday afternoon.

Posted by Laurence of the Rats">Laurence of the Rats 2005-10-10 16:19|| 2005-10-10 16:19|| Front Page Top

#2 That's a block from where the older son was living before he dropped out at christmas.

I need to ask his ex-roommates what happened.

Posted by 3dc 2005-10-10 17:21|| 2005-10-10 17:21|| Front Page Top

#3 Midvale School for the Gifted
Don't push it Em.

Posted by Shipman 2005-10-10 17:23|| 2005-10-10 17:23|| Front Page Top

#4 And in late breaking news ... Recent reports indicate that increasing numbers of American college students are getting bombed.

[/Sick & Twisted]

Posted by MSM Announcer 2005-10-10 17:28|| 2005-10-10 17:28|| Front Page Top

#5 Midvale's Gifted A feeder school for UCLA? Larson's a hoot.

Posted by GK 2005-10-10 17:46|| 2005-10-10 17:46|| Front Page Top

#6 Yawn. You should hear the stories I get about what the bomb squad finds in the L.A. school system.

Posted by Pappy 2005-10-10 17:51|| 2005-10-10 17:51|| Front Page Top

#7 said they first heard a small explosion sometime between 5 a.m. and 8 a.m. Friday... a resident found an explosive device later that morning

This sounds like the classic Palestinian two-bomb set-up -- the first to injure a few people and collect a crowd of responders, the second to rip everyone to pieces. Not at all nice, and not the kind of thing a prankster should do.

Posted by trailing wife 2005-10-10 17:56|| 2005-10-10 17:56|| Front Page Top

#8 Pappy, can you give us some perspective, then? To me this doesn't seem to fall under the same heading as a flaming bag of feces on the front porch, but I'd be thrilled to be wrong.

Posted by trailing wife 2005-10-10 18:09|| 2005-10-10 18:09|| Front Page Top

#9 I spent several nights with the son before. So many booze bottles are thrown off the roofs of the nearby Frats to smash onto cars and car windshields there that it could have taken a while to notice a small bomb. Every morning the sidewalk and street sweepers come by to clean up the nights damage.
The frats and sori..there are a bunch of animals. It would sound like a war all night with the bottles. Later the rich hollywood kids would race through in there Porsches and throw bottles at the apartments (not the frats) and cars on the street.

The only thing the stupid campus police do is ticket overparked cars.

Posted by 3dc 2005-10-10 19:44|| 2005-10-10 19:44|| Front Page Top

#10 TW young US males like building "bombs" it's nothing new. LA is a HUGE district. I am sure they find some frightening stuff. They have their own Police Dept they are so big. It's no different than a lot of other places it's just concentrated.

I found a pipe bomb once under the Stadium seating at the local HS during a football game where I was working security. Kids are stupid. It was quitely handled by the SO and local PD.

This could be a Ramadan bomb however since this is not a High School.

Posted by Sock Puppet OÂ´ Doom 2005-10-10 19:47|| 2005-10-10 19:47|| Front Page Top

#11 *smile* It must've been one of the many activities my younger brothers didn't invite me to join, SPoD. It's probably a good thing I mothered daughters, otherwise I'd be completely clueless... at least fwiw I haven't noticed them blowing things up so far.

Posted by trailing wife 2005-10-10 20:49|| 2005-10-10 20:49|| Front Page Top

#12 Boys will be boys, but I drew the line when I caught the neighborhood boys turning super-soakers into flamethrowers.

Posted by Darrell 2005-10-10 20:54|| 2005-10-10 20:54|| Front Page Top

#13 Damn. And I thought I was bad with the ol' salt-petre and sugar smoke bombs, back in the day.

Posted by Rafael 2005-10-10 21:47|| 2005-10-10 21:47|| Front Page Top

#14 SPoD's right. The L.A. school district has its share of miscreants. Pipe bombs, chemical-based bombs, fireworks (the large kind), etc. Bomb disposal is handled by LAPD.

Posted by Pappy 2005-10-10 22:29|| 2005-10-10 22:29|| Front Page Top

#15 When we were kids, we took our pipe-sheathed, *ahem* apparati out into the hills to test. Even used to shoot cornices to try to start avelanches. Pipe shrapnel is pretty mean stuff. I guess we were brilliant boys---darn lucky ones at that.

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2005-10-10 22:54|| 2005-10-10 22:54|| Front Page Top

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