Minnesota: A 30-year-old man in Goodhue County blew up a dump truck using Tannerite, an explosive sold online in 8-ounce cans as a shooting target for gun enthusiasts. The blast rattled a nearby casino and put a nuclear power plant on high alert.
Sheriff Dean Albers said "He had placed it inside of a [barrel] inside the bed of an old dump truck, and shot it it with a 50 caliber rifle from 300 yards away." Shrapnel was found over a 1/4 mile away. One officer spotted another vehicle bombed out.
"That you could go ahead and order 100 pounds of this, with the regulations out there, this day and age, you'd have thought someone would build a mechanism that would have detected someone's order this kind of amount," said Albers.
Thursday, January 24, 2008
Man Obliterates Dump Truck With 100 Pounds of Explosive Bought Online
From ShortNews a follow up of an earlier post on the subject from KT Cat
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