A cache of illegal fireworks seized at a South Los Angeles home exploded Wednesday evening, damaging nearby homes and cars and injuring at least 16 people, three of them seriously, authorities said. Police had called in a bomb squad after a tip led them to seize some 5,000 pounds of illegal home-made and China-manufactured pyrotechnics at about noon, police said. One man was arrested on suspicion of possessing fireworks and destructive devices and also on suspicion of child endangerment because two children were found at the home, police said. Some of the fireworks appeared to be large mortar-sized devices used for commercial purposes, the AP reports. “I would expect multiple houses destroyed had those explosives gone up,” LAPD Capt. Robert Long told KABC-TV.
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So inquiring minds want to know:
Who wuz the dumbshit who decided that setting off a 5,000lb bomb inside an armored container (read as shrapnel) in the middle of a city street wuz a good idea???
Hell, even as kids we all knew that cramming enougn match-heads into a CO2 cartridge was explosive and dangerous… which is why we did it of course, but that’s why we were also safe about it and did it in sand pits.
And it didn’t even make a dent…
https://youtu.be/J28_bnAlIVo
Well, a dent in the amount of fireworks. It made some serious dents locally!
Why couldn’t that have taken out the house full o’ numbnuts 3 blocks from me, that shoot off fireworks day & night, between Easter & Halloween, for the past 5 years?!?! 🙄
Our City BDU had an armored spherical chamber on a trailer that had small holes for controlled overpressure release and was designed specifically for containment on narrow streets around tall buildings so you wouldn’t blow the glass panels off them.
Our SO had a taller armored container, also on a trailer and NOT the main vehicle, that was gridded at the top to contain shrapnel but allow upwards venting of overpressure, for use in more suburban and rural settings where it could be routed away from buildings and population centers to fields for controlled disposal, if they considered that to be the safest option.
Not sure about the details of this one, but in both cases the explosives were not stored in the actual manned vehicle, and while they did carry blasting caps for controlled detonation of loads in considered too dangerous to move, this would be unlikely to be attempted with larger quantities in heavily populated areas, nor would large quantities be loaded to the transport vessel if the scene was stable so multiple trips with smaller loads would be possible, and if it were deemed safe enough to move to a transport, it would be moved out of the populated area under escort.
Don’t know the details the IC had so I can’t say how he made the decision or what other factors there could have been. Just saying that, given what little bit of possibly inaccurate reporting so far, I think it would have been handled differently back in the day.
May the Lord speed healing to the injured and comfort the families of those who now fear for their loved ones.
LCD – Speaking of dents… that reminds me of Earls poster on Jackass Joe’s birth defect!
https://earloftaint.com/2021/06/27/notice-this-photo-may-have-been-altered-to-make-biden-look-like-a-hammered-head-dumbass/
Well, that’s one way to guarantee a new armor truck purchase in the next year budget. Explanation line: “Damaged beyond repair during a criminal investigation.”
SNS – Everything has ratings. This sounds like someone didn’t read the instructions!
Between the Arvado, Colorado cop killing the good guy recently and guards allowing Epstein’s death and this fiasco, it seems some of the dumbest people on Earth are becoming cops.
Well, ATF was involved…
From another site…
“You can’t fix stupid, and they were clearly stupid! Flash powder in large quantaties demands a ton of respect, the speed at which it expands upon ignition is way faster than most ‘explosives’ and thus what might contain other slower expanding but technically more powerful explosives (like the explosion chamber in said truck above) won’t contain flash powder because of the rapid shockwave it creates. Who ever signed off to load that much into that control detonation chamber was to be blunt a total idiot! And the fact they signed off to have it detonated in a residential area with spectators is just mind boggling stupid!
But, I guess we know where some of their ‘infrastructure’ money might be going towards.”
Hambone – When the highest priority is skin color and sexual plumbing, that’s whutz gonna happen!!
Anymouse – back in the 70s my wife worked for a company that made bomb hoppers. They were intended to contain hazardous/explosive materials so that they could be transported to a safe area for detonation.
Hmm. I thought the enclosures in which explosives were set off deliberately were designed to channel the blast overpressure UP. When I stepped through the BOOM! part of the video frame by frame, the first sign of the explosion came from UNDERNEATH the truck.
It appears to me that the wrong people were doing the wrong thing at the wrong place with the wrong equipment with noozies video recording the whole thing. Yep, govt work to be sure.
Another article I saw on this sez they only put 10lbs of material in the cast-iron hopper… which makes me wonder, were they intending to repeat this like 500 times to get thru the whole enchilada or what ???
Something doesn’t sound right!
Move on, nothing to see here.
“It all just happened feet from homes…”
— moron news reader
Tons of bullshit from the bint ‘news’ person. Tons of it.
Powder magazines have a “soft top” for a reason. And smokeless powder is NOT an explosive, it is a combustible and burns at a high rate but does not explode unless under tons of pressure.
The guy I used to work for sold his powder magazines to Pyrodine back in the 1980’s to set up a fireworks plant and the magazines were used for storage of fireworks, which are explosive. Soft top is meant to direct an unintentional detonation upward.
Govt regulations require a soft top on all magazines. So why was this truck not so constructed?
I only wish they had disguised that bomb disposal truck as an Amazon delivery truck.
“JDHasty
JULY 1, 2021 AT 12:53 PM
Powder magazines have a “soft top” for a reason. And smokeless powder is NOT an explosive, it is a combustible and burns at a high rate but does not explode unless under tons of pressure.”
…definitionallly, that’s THIS type of incident…
“Deflagration
A deflagration describes burning which takes place at a flame speed below the velocity of sound in the burnt gases, while a detonation refers to burning taking place at, or above, the velocity of sound in the burnt gases.”
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/engineering/deflagration
It looks like this on a desk top…
https://youtu.be/lSVOAHO9584
…and can look like this in real life…
https://youtu.be/B5wvCvmXnLs
…and that’s with things NOT specifically made to rapidly burn.
…so to your point, as you can see in the desktop display vs. the actual fire, if you don’t give it somewhere to go, it’s gonna MAKE somewhere to go for ITSELF, and you WON’T be a happy camper when it DOES…
wait, wait, wait……you want me to be concerned about what happens in south la? are you xxfrxxcken kitting me? arrest, try and xecute newsome and pelosi……