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Baldy's Bombast
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October 30, 2010
Wires and clocks and toner, oh my!
I have never made an explosive device and probably never will. If I ever need need one, I'll stick to the store-bought kind. But I don't even like firecrackers and haven't gone near them since I was thirteen, when I dabbled with blowing apart things like rotten apples and piles of dog crap — RUN!! So I have no idea how to make an explosive device, but if I WERE to try to make one and disguise it as a benign everyday object, I would follow a few simple guidelines:
1) DO NOT use anything that has a fuse that needs to be lit with a match or lighter. For details about this, search the terms "shoe bomber," "underwear bomber," and "Wile E. Coyote."
2) DO remember that toner cartridges are not considered a dessert item in many Western countries and that a toner cartridge smothered with something that looks like powdered sugar will likely arouse suspicion (see photo below).
3) DO use a material that will actually explode, unlike the Times Square "bomber."
4) If leaving the device in a vehicle, DO NOT leave the vehicle running, with its flashers on, while smoke billows out of a box of clocks and wires (Times Square "bomber," again).
5) If you want to cause serious damage, as in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, DO become an informant for the FBI and let them in on your plan well in advance (see New York Times article of October 28, 1993).
At least there is some good news that comes out of the recent terror scare: Whoever tried this obviously has the world's suckiest "sleeper cells" or they wouldn't have had to ship their Toner Cartridge Dessert from the Middle East. Sounds like terror HQ wouldn't trust their sleeper cells with blowing up rotten apples and dog crap.
Wires and clocks and toner, oh my!
I have never made an explosive device and probably never will. If I ever need need one, I'll stick to the store-bought kind. But I don't even like firecrackers and haven't gone near them since I was thirteen, when I dabbled with blowing apart things like rotten apples and piles of dog crap — RUN!! So I have no idea how to make an explosive device, but if I WERE to try to make one and disguise it as a benign everyday object, I would follow a few simple guidelines:
1) DO NOT use anything that has a fuse that needs to be lit with a match or lighter. For details about this, search the terms "shoe bomber," "underwear bomber," and "Wile E. Coyote."
2) DO remember that toner cartridges are not considered a dessert item in many Western countries and that a toner cartridge smothered with something that looks like powdered sugar will likely arouse suspicion (see photo below).
3) DO use a material that will actually explode, unlike the Times Square "bomber."
4) If leaving the device in a vehicle, DO NOT leave the vehicle running, with its flashers on, while smoke billows out of a box of clocks and wires (Times Square "bomber," again).
5) If you want to cause serious damage, as in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, DO become an informant for the FBI and let them in on your plan well in advance (see New York Times article of October 28, 1993).
At least there is some good news that comes out of the recent terror scare: Whoever tried this obviously has the world's suckiest "sleeper cells" or they wouldn't have had to ship their Toner Cartridge Dessert from the Middle East. Sounds like terror HQ wouldn't trust their sleeper cells with blowing up rotten apples and dog crap.
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REMEMBER: Toner cartridges are not considered a dessert item in many Western countries, and a toner cartridge smothered with something that looks like powdered sugar will likely arouse suspicion.
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