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-Lurid Crime Tales-
2 injured in explosion of homemade bomb
2008-05-06
A few days old but it needs to be noted here.
CLINTON, N.C. — Two men were arrested Wednesday after their homemade bomb exploded prematurely, injuring both, authorities said.

Acting on an anonymous tip, Sampson County deputies found a Chevrolet minivan outside Sampson Regional Medical Center with a side window blown out and blast marks on the outside of a door, authorities said. Inside the hospital emergency room, Martin Bryant Boyette and Julio Frentez Morales were receiving treatment for injuries from a bomb blast, authorities said. An investigation determined that the pair had made several bombs at Boyette's house, where both lived, and Morales tried to throw one out the window of the minivan on U.S. Highway 701 as they drove past Hobbton Schools, authorities said.

The bomb went off in Morales' hand, seriously injuring him, and a piece of shrapnel hit Boyette in the back of the head, authorities said.
Good.
"It's scary to think that these individuals were going to throw an explosive device out of a vehicle in front of a school," Sampson County Sheriff Jimmy Thornton said in a statement. "What were they thinking? What possible thrill could be worth potentially injuring an innocent person, especially a child?"
At best, they weren't thinking at all. At worst, they were thinking about the revolution ...
The State Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives were called in to assist with the case. ATF agents searched the minivan and determined no other bombs were inside, authorities said. A pipe bomb was found during a search of the house, and the Cumberland County Sheriff's Office Bomb Squad responded to disarm it, authorities said.

Boyette was being held in the Sampson County Detention Center under a $35,000 bond, while Morales had been released on bond. The owner of the minivan, who also lived at the Keener Road house, was charged with possession of methamphetamine and possession of drug paraphernalia after deputies found 2 grams of methamphetamine while interviewing her during their investigation of the bomb explosion. She was being held in the Sampson County Detention Center under a $200,000 bond.

The ATF is investigating the case for possible federal charges, authorities said.
Each of these mooks needs a long, long prison sentence, no parole, no early release. Let mook #1 use a styrofoam hook for a hand.
Posted by:Steve White

#4  They're still alive?
Too stupid to even make a good bomb.
(Good bomb equals two idiot's funerals)
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2008-05-06 22:25  

#3  They picked a pretty symbolic day to be stupid if that's what it was.
Posted by: lotp   2008-05-06 06:26  

#2  Bomb making is a time honored hillbilly passion.
Posted by: McZoid   2008-05-06 05:09  

#1  Back whien I was (a lot) younger, I have happy memories of putting a small crater in the local high school lawn as a result of a chemistry lab experiment gone wrong.(And that,kids, is how we make lead azide....)

Have some bigger old craters out in the back 40 at my homestead.(so, that's the recipie for ANFO...)

Nowadays, this sort of thing gets you put under the jail cell. If you are lucky.

Lefty and his buddy sound like local idiots out having a good time, not al-Q or Columnbine wannabees. I bet either alcohol or other recreational pharmasuticals were a factor.
Posted by: N guard   2008-05-06 00:42  

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