He thought the extra-large bottle of hand lotion would have distracted the inspectors.

Deathfrogg: And the Bradley is still a piece of shiat.



/Does not approve.
//Hot like burning poisonous gas from armor combustion

NFA: Image of the confiscated explosive in its original wrapping
Military grade indeed!


No, trust me, if it was Midland, it would have been Taco Villa.

/from Midland
//mmmmmm, Taco Villa.....

why does subby say he was trying to board a united flight when the article says american?

make up your mind, please

erewhon: Asa Phelps: A little of it is a tragic result of group think.

Also a slave to the MIC.

We worked on a tragic bail-out once. There was a project - I assume it's still classified since we haven't been told otherwise and I haven't seen it on the net - that was ab initio a really nice idea. The sort of thing you see and say wow, I could see that being really useful for the group that owned the project. Not so much for Willy Warfighter, but it was targeted for a special group that had a specific use for it.

And apparently, it started off well.

Then it started. First, the original project owner made the mistake of trying to add budget funds by expanding the target audience - a foolish error, since it took at least SOME training to use this thing without getting yourself killed. Anyways, once it was let outside the secure fencing under the concept "...and other groups as necessary" it began to...grow.

The non-special brass now owned a piece of it. And they all wanted their names on the pie. So it gained major armament. And then went from a somewhat silent electric motor to gas, to diesel. And tripled in size. And gained a turret. And autonav. And more. It just wouldn't quit growing. Before you knew it, it was a nightmare, the thing had dragged on forever and the initial second tiers were going bankrupt due to the scope changes that their contracts foolishly didn't cover.

We got dragged in as the "guys that bail out f...d up spec op projects" and were assigned the electronics, at which point we discovered that the thing had been architected by high school students on crack or something. The basic guts of the thing were so very badly conceived that they weren't salvageable. I wish I could tell you the details. Suffice it to say, no redundancy at all. Not in hardware, not in software. One missed bit in a command stream EVAR and the whole thing was permanently in the toilet until you rebooted the system, which was an inevitability given that the hardware was RS232, run t ...

You sounds like you play a lot of Battlefield 3 and airsoft. You know, that guy with the crew cut who's not in the military but really wishes he WAS.

Let's see...TSA, FBI...new years eve...guy with "explosives" other wise known as fireworks wrapped from the seller in what he probably didn't realize looked like military wrapping...whatever that is.

Given the level of meh coming from the Police, TSA, and FBI.

Yep, gonna say it was fireworks.

Midland? The only thing that comes out of Midland is queers and steers and you ain't no steer.

Yawn.

It was most likely fireworks for his kids.

Sleeping Monkey: Beaver1224: Sleeping Monkey: By republican deduction, I can only conclude that all Texans are terrorists and we should immediately stop them from trying to infiltrate our government.

Yeah, but if that rule is put in place, they'll just go back to being from Connecticut.

I guess we'll leave it up to the birth certificate

Sure but they have to carry it with them at all times, so we can randomly check them if they're standing on the street corner.

In the AUS airport I got my tube of military grade toothpaste confiscated.

Keep up that great work TSA!

Gyrfalcon: UsikFark: KidneyStone: 12349876: KidneyStone: Let's see, explosives, New Years Eve...nah, the turrsts would never want to kick off a new year with a plane full of people being sprayed all over the sky

i really hope it turns out to be nothing

The trolls will have to break out the herp derp early for the new year if it's a white guy.

Like McVeigh?

lone nut theory.

You know who else only had a lone nut?

Hitler has only one left ball,
Göring has two but they are small,
Himmler is somewhat sim'lar,
But Goebbels has no balls at all.

cuzsis: Okay...so the last time something like this happened with the shoe bomber or the underwear bomber, we had "removing shoes" and "pat downs" by the TSA at airports.

Now that this one was a military so they'd have to do something like...check every military person that goes through? In case they are carrying military grade bombs?

The TSA taking on the United States Armed forces... Irresistible force meets unmovable object.

This should get good.

/grabs popcorn

Oooh, yes.

/grabs own popcorn
//Let's ring in the New Year in style!

Season just ended.

It was C4 but he is a Mercan so it's OK.

I can only hope that the government spends a huge amount of money to take away more rights, so we can pretend that they are making us safer.

What 'rights' are those exactly?

bravian: No.

Took a while to get this out.

/Correct answer.

redmid17: Aamelrons: gaslight: So, it's bad that he's using military grade explosives to blow up the plane. As opposed to what? The civilian explosives that would only slightly less blow up the plane?

I remember my grandpa telling me stories about how when he lived on a farm, he would sometimes have to go into town and buy quarter sticks of tnt to take back out to blow up stumps on his property.

I have no idea how true that is, or how common it was, or if you can even still do that, or how much paperwork now you need to be able to purchase it. and I'm to scared to google it on my home computer

The soccer complex I played at growing up at had a bunch of the stuff to blow some stumps out of the ground when they started expanding. A family friend ran the place, so I got to help out removing the stumps after they'd been blasted. Never got to handle the fun stuff. My dad and grandfather routinely used dynamite to remove stumps from their farm growing up. My cousin and uncle used some shaped charges to rid their farm of some stumps last summer.

Which makes me wonder how hard it is to get the stuff, like when my grandpa talked about it he literally just went to the store and bought it. I would imagine there are very strict guidelines to get it, even more the nsay buying a gun

sonder: You sounds like you play a lot of Battlefield 3 and airsoft. You know, that guy with the crew cut who's not in the military but really wishes he WAS.

Nope. Neither one. And really was.

redmid17: Aamelrons: redmid17: Aamelrons: gaslight: So, it's bad that he's using military grade explosives to blow up the plane. As opposed to what? The civilian explosives that would only slightly less blow up the plane?

I remember my grandpa telling me stories about how when he lived on a farm, he would sometimes have to go into town and buy quarter sticks of tnt to take back out to blow up stumps on his property.

I have no idea how true that is, or how common it was, or if you can even still do that, or how much paperwork now you need to be able to purchase it. and I'm to scared to google it on my home computer

The soccer complex I played at growing up at had a bunch of the stuff to blow some stumps out of the ground when they started expanding. A family friend ran the place, so I got to help out removing the stumps after they'd been blasted. Never got to handle the fun stuff. My dad and grandfather routinely used dynamite to remove stumps from their farm growing up. My cousin and uncle used some shaped charges to rid their farm of some stumps last summer.

Which makes me wonder how hard it is to get the stuff, like when my grandpa talked about it he literally just went to the store and bought it. I would imagine there are very strict guidelines to get it, even more the nsay buying a gun

You can buy tannerite online. mix it up and apply it to a stump. Shoot it and watch a stump blow up. It's fun

See, this is makes kind of curious about the threat level in america ect.

If I was younger (and as foolish as I was when I was young), I'd probably buy it right now. Get bored waiting to be able to get out to my friends ranch, and try to blow something up in my backyard (I live in a suburb).

Which would immediately have the cops called, and then possibly arrested for terrorist charges (as I've been lead to believe).

Yet, I'm a pretty smart person, and there are a lot stupider people out there the nme. Which makes me wonder why there aren't more stories of teenagers blowing off their hands, getting arrested, ect.

Or, hell even real terrorist minded people buying enough of it, dump it on a major access ramp to a busy highway and setting it off. It wouldn't necessary have to be destroyed. Just enough structural damage to have to close it for repairs. Think of the economic terror you could cause. I mean, it seems like a really low barrier of entry to do scary shiat.

I guess, Tl;DR is why don't we have more scary shiat happening by bored rebellious teenagers then we currently do?

Asa Phelps: I like that everyone says it's C4 or TNT.

It could be det cord for all you know.

Det cord's a lot of fun, and definitely faster than a chain saw.