Thanks to Google Alerts, there's a bit of new info just in on the USF students-cum-traveling band of fireworks experimenters named Mohamed and Megahed. The pair were apprehended last month in South Carolina and the usual parties immediately blamed law enforcement's tendency to "profile".
| Prosecutor Jay Hoffer said authorities found three pieces of piping cut into small sections in the trunk of a car Megahed was traveling in, each filled with a "potassium nitrate explosive mixture." Also found in the car were 20 feet (6 meters) of fuse, a box of .22 caliber bullets, a drill that could have been used to "perhaps insert a fuse" into the explosive devices, and a partially filled 5-gallon gasoline container, Hoffer said.  A video found on a laptop in the car, which Mohamed has acknowledged he made, shows "how to turn a radio controlled car into a detonator that could be used for an explosive," Hoffer said.The men say the explosive materials were simply for homemade fireworks... |
I don't know about you, but whenever I'm getting ready to shoot off fireworks near a sensitive military installation, I cut PVC pipe into small sections, fill those up with a potassium nitrate-based compound, and drill holes in them. Plus, I carry around a large gas canister to make sure my fireworks will ignite when I need them to. Oh, and bullets too, in order to add the cool "pop-pop-pop" sounds.
So I totally buy into their story.
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