IN-- Postal Worker Had Bomb-Making Materials

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The Annoyed Man:

Oh, I know you can grow pot indoors (I did go to college once)honestly, the fellow might have been growing in an outbuilding as well.
He'll be hung out to dry probably long before we find out the truth about the "c-4" and whatever else he had in fact. Maybe he is a no-goodnick, who knows?
 
Hi ServiceSoon

You of all people should know that Indiana is a long way from heaven and too :cuss: close to Chicago.

One story my Dad tells is when the CO's first got their "magical" powers Gramps had cattle in a pasture with a woodlot in the center. The brand new Conservation Officer for the county came by and told Gramps there was someone poaching in the woods and he was going to investigate.

Gramps pointed out that he had cattle in the pasture and couldn't allow him to do that. The CO's police attitude kicked in and he put his badge in Gramps face and told him in no uncertain terms that badge said he could go any -expletive deleted- place he wanted to.

After crossing the fence and getting just to the woodlot, the bull- a transplant from West Texas with large horns and a bad attitude- spotted the CO and let him know that he did not appreciate his pasture being invaded.

I'm told Gramps did help the man however- he leaned against the gate shouting, "SHOW HIM YOUR BADGE :cuss:, SHOW HIM YOUR BADGE!"

True or not I have idea none - but knowing Gramps he would do something like that. :what:

Selena
 
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Around here one of the favorite pastimes of the rural youth is making life miserable for the game wardens one incident stands out which sounds an awful lot like a Dukes of Hazzard re-run a group of kids whom I went to school with were out "spotlighting" in an 86 Monte Carlo SS with a souped-up small block V8 when a game warden in a Jeep Cherokee gave chase they led him down "peach orchard road" which is about 1.5 miles long, it starts out innocently enough but near the end there is a hump and then a near 90 degree turn the kids went over the hump and did a power-slide around the corner the game warden however didn't get through the turn he went off the road hit the ditch and went up into the field tore up the front end of the jeep real good, the kids got away with it too
 
Having bomb-making materials is one thing, but a can of C-4 is a whole 'nother ball game. One could really do some serious damage with that, imagine if a terrorist managed to acquire C-4.

For that matter, how would one obtain C-4, even illegally? I'm not sure that the black market has much as far as sophisticated explosives go...
 
This is not HALF as scary as the employee at Palo Verde Nuclear Powerplant. like two days ago, and dont quote me on the date but it was recent, he walked into the nations biggest nuclear facility with a big pipebomb. this is located MINUTES from the nations 6th largest city. and me, my family, ect. scary?
 
Hi Crunker1337,

First off, you only have the word of a media outlet that it was C-4. Personally I rather think it was some kind of smokeless propellant or black powder for this simple reason...

C-4, like TNT comes in blocks covered with a kind of wax paper. Slurry explosives come in long plastic bags, Explosive grade Ammonia Nitrate comes in treated paper sacks. Dynamites come in paper wrapped 'sticks.' While I'm hardly an expert on the subject from what I've been told by a man that worked over forty years as a blaster the only explosives that come in 'cans' are military shaped charges and mining charges. Since the latter come in 100# cans TCSD would have had pictures of the things plastered on every front page and TV outlet in the state.

On the other hand, propellent powders as most of the posters here know come in cans.

Call me cynical but don't believe everything you read in the newspapers and get reason to believe what you read in an Indiana newspaper.

Selena
 
This is not HALF as scary as the employee at Palo Verde Nuclear Powerplant. like two days ago, and dont quote me on the date but it was recent, he walked into the nations biggest nuclear facility with a big pipebomb. this is located MINUTES from the nations 6th largest city. and me, my family, ect. scary?
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http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/1103nuclear-ON.html

Guards discovered the 5-inch-long capped explosive at a checkpoint early Friday in Roger William Hurd's truck.

Hurd, an engineer, told investigators he had no idea how it got there, and was released later that day.

APS officials said the 61-year-old is among about 400 long-term contractors at the plant, and had access to security clearance without an escort.

The bomb contained an explosive used in commercial fireworks, said APS Chief Nuclear Officer Randy Edington.
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I am guessing someone was after this guy and put the pipe bomb in his truck. If it even was a real pipe bomb.
 
Officers'Wife, that does make sense... leave it to the media to transform smokeless powder to C-4.
 
Sir, we have a warrant. Sherwin Williams reports 60 gallons of paint stolen. We got to check your freezer.;)
 
Besides the other stuff, I bet the anti- government literature is really going to get him in trouble. I painted a house out in Llano, TX. The game warden was there at the entry gate every night to check us for untagged game. They are god of their domain.
 
Hi Sean,

My guess is that the attorney is arguing the evidence seized was part of an illegal search and therefore not admissable as evidence. He has legal precedence against him. Again just as a guess he (attorney) is telling the state of Indiana his client is willing to make this a long and expensive trial to motivate them into a more favorable plea-bargin.

In short- he's playing 'Let's make a deal.'

Selena
 
This disturbs me in one very important aspect. That being the phrase "bomb making." That doesn't mean a "bomb" was fully assembled, it simply means the gentleman has the equipment.

Technically, you could arrest any man for rape, because after all, he has the "tool."

I thought of an "average plumber" who is a typical reloader. There must be dozens of plumbers who are gun enthusiasts here at THR.

In his home there is the normal relaoder gear, but probably all types of pipe and end caps. You can buy pipe at any hardware store.

Except for fuse material, any hobbyist plumber could fashion a bomb with materials in his basement.

What's to stop an overly aggressive, LEO with a predetermined agenda to hassle every plumber in the Yellow Pages?
 
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