In Florida:
Detectives say it's an act of local terrorism. An adult bookstore is cleaning up after a chemical attack by a homemade device that investigators are calling a "weapon of mass destruction." . . .
The device, discovered Sunday morning, was made of two gallon-size sports drink jugs connected by hoses. Someone set it on top of the store's window air conditioning unit.
Detectives say that person then strung one hose from a water spigot on the outside of the building, and pushed another hose into the building through a gap above the air conditioner.
"That water hose would churn it up, mix it up in the gallon jug, and enter it into the building," said Alachua County Sheriff's Sergeant Keith Faulk. Investigators say one of the jugs had a harmful substance inside that flowed into the store along with the water.
"We haven't identified what was actually in the bottle, in the system that delivered it into the building. We do know that it was caustic, it was corrosive, it had a high pH level," Faulk said. . . .
Under state law, by the book, deputies say the device is a weapon of mass destruction.
"They're looking at hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines, and... 30 years in jail," Faulk said.
"You're trying to hurt people. You're trying to change their ideas or instill fear. And that's exactly what the terrorists do. So this person is a local terrorist," he said.
probably lye.
a common homemade device is constructed in a small bottle with lye and aluminum foil then water is added.
However, what the dumbass who set the device apparently missed is that the device will only detonate if allowed to build up pressure. It has to be sealed in a rugged container.
Kiddies, do not try this at home. The expansion rate of the hydrogen gas released is impossible to control and the devices are very unstable and dangerous, especially to those setting them.
Posted by: prairie biker | May 31, 2006 at 11:13 AM
I think it was supposed to be a "poison gas" attack rather than a bomb.
Posted by: gail | May 31, 2006 at 11:21 AM
amonia and bleach then. Makes chlorine gas...
Not that I would gas a porn store, mind you.
Posted by: Rob B. | May 31, 2006 at 01:04 PM
baiking sodar an vinagar. betcha a nickel.
or halfbrewwed beer.
Posted by: HA HA HA | May 31, 2006 at 07:50 PM