Bomb squad truck carrying illegal fireworks from South LA explodes, blowing out windows, damaging ca

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kilgore trout, dna harvester
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I know when I load my bomb squad truck up with fireworks it’s always a big surprise what happens next

FOX 11 Los Angeles
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A bomb squad truck carrying illegal fireworks from South Los Angeles exploded unexpectedly, blowing out windows and destroying nearby cars. https://foxla.com/news/bomb-squad-truck-carrying-illegal-fireworks-from-south-la-explodes?taid=60dd2fc2bcdfda0001431a9f&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=trueanthem&utm_source=twitter…
8:06 PM · Jun 30, 2021

https://www.foxla.com/news/bomb-squad-truck-carrying-illegal-fireworks-from-south-la-explodes

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[chowder66]

1. Horrifying. KTLA has video of it from another angle.

https://ktla.com/news/5000-pounds-of-illegal-fireworks-seized-from-south-l-a-home/

[Demovictory9]

6. youtube

[PoliticAverse]

2. Is there ever a time when a bomb squad truck explodes "expectedly"?...

Do they blow them up for fun ever?

[Wounded Bear]

13. The mythbusters blew up a cement truck once...

that was pretty spectacular and "expected" as they planned it.

[ProfessorGAC]

25. Also, As I Recall...

...that was a couple hundred pounds of ANFO.
That's 20x this situation, with an explosive release per unit mass of 66% higher. 333 times the detonation energy.
That cement truck went bye-bye!
But, there's something fishy about this cop truck blowing up at 55.5% of rated containment.
BTW: I had lunch with Jamie & Adam (plus, some crew) about 3 days one week about 15 years ago.
They were pretty much exactly what we see on the show.
When they were doing a theater tour, I got invited to the show in the city to our north. VIP treatment. Pretty cool!

[jmowreader]

3. First question from LAPD to the suspect..

"Man, exactly what in hell was in those things?"

As destroyed as that truck was, it looks like those fireworks contained high explosives, not the low explosives that are supposed to be in there.

[Demovictory9]

20. They were special handmade fireworks

[jmowreader]

26. Using what, C4 or TNT?

[Demovictory9]

27. Good question

[Progressive Jones]

4. Why is this being done in a dense residential area ? nt

[eppur_se_muova]

8. Well, that ties in with the word "illegal" in the OP.

Some idiot stored a lot of fireworks at his home (that's the illegal part); Bomb Squad was trucking them out in a heavily shielded container to contain any blast which occurred. Only partially effective, obviously, but think what the damage would have been if they had just carried them out in a flatbed truck.

[malaise]

16. That is the question n/t

[HAB911]

17. perhaps they didn't want to drive that truck

across town, good decision. OOPS, they miscalculated what was in those "M80s"

[sarisataka]

18. What is the "this" you are referring to?

That someone illegally stored a large quantity of fireworks in a residential area or the bomb squad removing them from the area?

[Progressive Jones]

19. The article says that this bomb squad was doing a controlled detonation.

It seems to me that they could have found a better location after loading that truck.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

22. Because cops.

[Progressive Jones]

24. LOL ! nt

[BigmanPigman]

5. Over $3 million in damages.

I hope the ones who bought them illegally are fined the full amount. The city shouldn't have to pay that. Put a lean on their property.

[Demovictory9]

21. 27 year old in custody wont have resources

[ecstatic]

7. I'm so sick of the nonstop fireworks

People don't even wait for holidays anymore.

[C Moon]

10. It's every month of the year now.

There must be a correlation between obsessive firework use and a low IQ. I can’t see how or why anyone would dedicate that much time and money into lighting fireworks year-round.

We have some idiot who sets off those huge pyrotechnics style ones at 5AM right over our roofs—weeknights! We are practically thrown out of bed from a deep sleep. That person has issues.

They’re quiet tonight for some reason. I wonder if that news scared them off for one night.

[JI7]

12. I haven't been hearing it as much and I don't know

if it's becsuse police are finally going after them which is what was happening in the OP or if there isn't as much supply becsuse of issues due to covid and manufacturing in China.

[MagickMuffin]

9. Couldn't they have just used water and destroy the fireworks that way instead?

It would seem like that would be another solution.

[C Moon]

11. Oh my god. That is so true. Why not use water?

[Hassin Bin Sober]

14. Then how are you going to be able to bring the fireworks home for your celebration?

My neighbor when I was a kid as a cop. He always had the best confiscated fireworks.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

23. Explosions make for better copaganda.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

15. .