Two Michigan State receivers arrested on bomb-making charges

[Ruby Romaine]

EAST LANSING -- Two Michigan State football players have been charged with planting homemade bombs outside apartments.

Terry Love and Irving Campbell, both 19-year-old redshirt freshmen wide receivers, were arrested Tuesday morning as they left the scene of the first explosion, police said. A second bomb exploded shortly afterward, and a third was detonated by the Michigan State Police.

http://www.freep.com/news/latestnews/pm1287_20041110.htm
good thing they aren't libruls or arabs-it would have been gitmo for sure!

[fryguy]

1. thought this was a football reference at first

not a domestic terrorism story....

:crazy:

[Ruby Romaine]

2. i guess it's both?

[KansDem]

3. Yeah, gives new meaning to "throwing the long bomb..." (eom)

[LoZoccolo]

4. Oh I know what they're talking about.

The devices were described as "MacGyver bombs", which are typically plastic bottles filled with a chemical and aluminum foil that react. Love and Campbell were charged with possessing a dangerous chemical compound and released on $500 bond after being arraigned Tuesday.

This is a prank. A dangerous one, but still - I knew some people that worked at a restaurant, and they used to mix some kind of cleaner that they had there with aluminum foil in a 2-liter in the parking lot and cap it up and run away and it would inflate and explode. This is like teenage vandal stuff, not terrorism.

[Gyre]

5. The police consider an M80 a "bomb"

The legal definitions are very loose and so just about anything that goes 'phisssst' or 'pow' qualifies. Assinine but true.

Gyre

[Blue_Tires]

6. in addition to the bomb

they laid out on the field in Ann Arbor!!!

[amandabeech]

7. Yeah, no kidding.

I bet that the crowd in Ann Arbor is saying, "What can you expect from Moo U."

Go Blue!

[Javaman]

8. I don't know about you, but when the use of a bomb, any kind,

enter into the concept of prank, that's a very disturbing trend to me.

So according to this logic, the planes that hit the twin towers were pranks on a very large scale. I'm sorry but I missed the joke.

Two very stupid, thick brained ball players.

[RedCon1]

9. I used to make those too

The wadded up aluminum balls act as a catalyst to liberate H2 from an acid, usually HCl although battery acid works just as well of course. When the reaction occurs in a plastic bottle, it expands until the bottle finally explodes spraying residual acid and AlOH all over the place. The concussion is often as loud as anything you'll ever hear at the fourth of July. Toilet bowl cleaner is a commonly used ingrediaent. It's called "the Works" I believe. Putting one of these things outside someone's front door is a very dangerous act owing to the aforementioned residual acid and the, typically, unpredictable nature of the reaction.

[noonwitch]

10. Typical MSU party

Not that they shouldn't be prosecuted, but those MSU students are wild and have been for as long as I can remember. My sister went there, I went to WMU, which was a party school at the time. MSU took partying to heights (or is it depths) that we never imagined in K-zoo.