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2003-11-24 Great White North

Bombmakers âjust wanted to set things offâ

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Posted by Steve 2003-11-24 11:19:29 AM|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 So, are they failed Darwin Award candidates, or a couple of M.E. 'refugees' plotting some evil deeds?

Posted by commo 2003-11-24 11:45:13 AM|| 2003-11-24 11:45:13 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 If these are mere pranksters, then where are the names? They are not juveniles, so why not post the names? Wanna bet at least one of them has the Surname of Peace?

Posted by BH 2003-11-24 12:04:05 PM|| 2003-11-24 12:04:05 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 BH, yes, it's interesting that the names of the Darwin Award, Honorary Mention candidates weren't released, isn't it? I wonder why ~~Muslims~~ ?

Posted by Raj 2003-11-24 12:21:19 PM|| [http://angrycyclist.blogspot.com] 2003-11-24 12:21:19 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 I think it has to do with Canadian press rules. I checked and no mention of their names in any paper. I think they won't reveal their names unless they are charged. Canadian readers, can you confirm/deny?

Posted by Steve 2003-11-24 12:41:01 PM|| 2003-11-24 12:41:01 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Sounds like they were doing some testing, the emperical method.

Posted by Lucky 2003-11-24 1:02:13 PM|| 2003-11-24 1:02:13 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Chill, guys. I can sympathize with these guys. As a kid, I used to like to make big booms and set them off. Several of my cousins and I did it many times in a very wide-open area along Little River, in north-central Louisiana, in the late 1950's and '60's. We blew up a few old stumps, tore the ^%%@%$@#@ out of an abandoned 1935 Buick carcass, and generally had fun with no harm to anyone. In those times, we were "just boys being boys" - today it'd be a federal case. That just shows how much government has grown - today there are so many things you could do 30-40 years ago that will get you a 30-year jail sentence today. PETA would have a cow if you sat on a riverbank these days, plinking water moccasins swimming across the river. Favorite pasttime when I was 15-16. Life has changed, and not necessarily for the better.

Posted by Old Patriot 2003-11-24 1:08:42 PM|| [http://users.codenet.net/mweather/default.htm] 2003-11-24 1:08:42 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Old Patriot: I can sympathize, and though they are a old to be acting like dumb teenagers I would give them the benefit of the doubt. What bugs me is that the reporter felt that this was newsworthy, but neglected to name these funsters. Elsewhere on their site we find that Terence Curtis, 48, attacked an MP and that Cecilia Zhang, 9, is still missing. But, oddly enough, these two remain anonymous.

Posted by BH 2003-11-24 1:23:40 PM|| 2003-11-24 1:23:40 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 I am pretty sure that the mounties look closely at people that fool with explosives in or near Quebec. If these two are Pakistani, their ethnicity will eventually leak. My guess is that there were more than a few Labatts Blues involved.

Posted by Super Hose 2003-11-24 6:17:44 PM|| 2003-11-24 6:17:44 PM|| Front Page Top

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