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"GUNPOWDER EXPLOSION KILLS MAN MAKING CANNON
www.signonsandiego.com/news/northcounty/20070525-9999-1m25pubsafe.html
San Diego Union-Tribune, May 25, 2007, Oceanside, CA: A 22-year-old man died in a gunpowder explosion while he and four friends tried to make a cannon in the backyard of a home yesterday, police said. The victim's companions were not injured. Three ran from the home on Guinevere Street after the blast, but officers found and questioned them, Oceanside police Lt. Rick Sing said.
Sing said the young men cut the ends off of shotgun shells and were dumping the powder into a metal pipe. The explosion hit the man in the face. Sing said he didn't know what caused the powder to explode. “All indications are it was an accident,” he said. The victim died at the scene. Neighbors said they heard the blast and felt windows rattle about 5 p.m. Police taped off the driveway leading to the house and evacuated at least a dozen homes on Guinevere and Squire Place. A sheriff's bomb-arson unit did not find any other explosives."
A word to the wise...
"The trouble with a kitten is that
eventually it becomes a cat." -- Ogden Nash
"The ancients had a great advantage over us in that their armies were not trailed by a second army of pen pushers." -- Napoleon
"No place is more than two missed meals from revolution." -- Larry Niven
www.signonsandiego.com/news/northcounty/20070525-9999-1m25pubsafe.html
San Diego Union-Tribune, May 25, 2007, Oceanside, CA: A 22-year-old man died in a gunpowder explosion while he and four friends tried to make a cannon in the backyard of a home yesterday, police said. The victim's companions were not injured. Three ran from the home on Guinevere Street after the blast, but officers found and questioned them, Oceanside police Lt. Rick Sing said.
Sing said the young men cut the ends off of shotgun shells and were dumping the powder into a metal pipe. The explosion hit the man in the face. Sing said he didn't know what caused the powder to explode. “All indications are it was an accident,” he said. The victim died at the scene. Neighbors said they heard the blast and felt windows rattle about 5 p.m. Police taped off the driveway leading to the house and evacuated at least a dozen homes on Guinevere and Squire Place. A sheriff's bomb-arson unit did not find any other explosives."
A word to the wise...
"The trouble with a kitten is that
eventually it becomes a cat." -- Ogden Nash
"The ancients had a great advantage over us in that their armies were not trailed by a second army of pen pushers." -- Napoleon
"No place is more than two missed meals from revolution." -- Larry Niven