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| Bombmakers ’just wanted to set things off’ |
| 2003-11-24 |
| Police don’t believe two men intended to do any harm when they set off homemade bombs in a field in east Montreal. I guess the standards for evidence are a little different in Canada. The pair aroused suspicions when they arrived at a health care clinic Sunday, one man with the ends of his fingers blown off. Workers at the clinic alerted police and the pair was taken to hospital by ambulance. The injured man, 25, lost most of the fingers on one hand, while the second man, 24, will undergo tests to ensure his hearing wasn’t damaged by the blast. "Are you sure it’s the red w.......BANG!" The injuries set off a massive search for more homemade bombs. Police searched one of the men’s trucks and roped off an area where four unexploded bombs were later found. Sunday night, they also evacuated 30 people from buildings neighbouring the apartment of the 25-year-old as they searched his apartment -- where they believe the bombs were made. Investigators don’t believe the men wanted to hurt anyone with the bombs, which were said to be "very unstable, very dangerous." Are you talking about the bombs, or the bombers? "It doesn’t appear they had any criminal intent, or were out to harm anyone," said police spokesman Const. Olivier Lapointe. "It seems they just wanted to set things off." Or they were testing the designs before they moved to bigger targets. Police may file charges against the men, though Lapointe said there are no plans to do so at this point. Good thing they were just exploding bombs and not shooting at targets with a handgun. They’d really be in trouble then. The incident was the second involving homemade bombs in the Montreal area in a week. A bomb went off inside a garbage bin at a high school in Laval last week causing minor injuries to at least 15 students. How’s that border fence with Canada coming, anyway? |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #5 Sounds like they were doing some testing, the emperical method. |
| Posted by: Lucky 2003-11-24 1:02:13 PM |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| Posted by: Raj 2003-11-24 12:21:19 PM |
| #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 |
| #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 |