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(CSIndy.com)   The only thing scarier than finding some undetonated dynamite on a hike is being dumb enough to take it home and put it in your kitchen. Bonus: Graphic of 5,000-foot oil rig looming over defenseless town   (csindy.com) divider line
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sponkster
2008-04-14 10:32:08 AM  
Wow that is quite the tall oil rig there. I doubt three slack guy wires would be enough to support but I am no engineer.
 
zavaro
2008-04-14 12:11:07 PM  
You have chosen, or been chosen to relocate to our finest remaining urban center.

Welcome, to City 17.
 
Spuddy345
2008-04-14 12:11:30 PM  
Not to scale?
 
Shakespeare's Monkey [OhFark]
2008-04-14 12:11:47 PM  
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Safety Tip: If you come across explosives, do not pick them up. Go and tell an adult.

/or the mental equivalent of one.
 
Nos_Felix
2008-04-14 12:12:01 PM  
that town sure is flat.
 
Snarcoleptic_Hoosier
2008-04-14 12:12:17 PM  
And Darwin steps to the plate. Low and Outside, Ball 1.


/Please God let there be a dynamite-explosion related story tommorow.
 
SaintAwesome
2008-04-14 12:12:18 PM  
Do not taunt Dynamite Hiker.
 
Calvin Butterball
2008-04-14 12:14:31 PM  
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d'art
2008-04-14 12:15:26 PM  
Oil? Not in MY backyard!

Reliance on foreign oil? That's crazy talk!

I'm starting to see why Conservatives are so hell-bent on destroying Alaska.
 
Clonod
2008-04-14 12:18:01 PM  
This is going to kill a duck and Zack Morris will get really pissed.
 
The Dogs of War
2008-04-14 12:19:29 PM  
Let's hope this doesn't happen...
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TripTheLightFantastic
2008-04-14 12:20:45 PM  
Yeah, you can't take that kind of thing home, the mother will never take it back.
 
Ulfhednar
2008-04-14 12:20:52 PM  
Slow news day?
 
vaconex
2008-04-14 12:21:31 PM  
undetonated dynamite

I doubt you'd find detonated dynamite.

That said, dynamite was designed to be stable, safe and easily transportable.

Thus, little to no danger.
 
Plague1988
2008-04-14 12:22:05 PM  
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Calvin Butterball
2008-04-14 12:23:04 PM  
Clonod: This is going to kill a duck and Zack Morris will get really pissed.

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Well played there.
 
tuna fingers
2008-04-14 12:23:33 PM  
FTFA
"My kids cut their hiking teeth on this trail," she says.

I guess it's better to cut their teeth on the trails, as opposed to some "completely heterosexual" pastor of New Life Church.

/Colorado Springs - just jumpin' with "completely heterosexual" peeners.
 
FarkinHostile
2008-04-14 12:25:32 PM  
vaconex

That said, dynamite was designed to be stable, safe and easily transportable.

Thus, little to no danger.


As it ages, and depending on the environmental conditions, dynamite "sweats" nitroglycerin, which is very shock/heat sensitive to detonation.

Thus, tremendous danger.
 
corbell
2008-04-14 12:25:32 PM  
vaconex: undetonated dynamite

I doubt you'd find detonated dynamite.

That said, dynamite was designed to be stable, safe and easily transportable.

Thus, little to no danger.

"Over time, the dynamite will "weep" or "sweat" its nitroglycerin, which can then pool in the bottom of the box or storage area. Crystals will form on the outside of the sticks. This creates a very dangerous situation. While the actual possibility of explosion without a blasting cap is minimal, old dynamite is still dangerous."

/Wikipedia knows everything.
 
databit
2008-04-14 12:25:42 PM  
What's funny is that the dynomite is only a sidebar in the article. It's an article about a proposed oil well that is just blasé about the fact that a guy not only found an explosive, but keeps it as a momento in his kitchen.
 
The Velour Fog
2008-04-14 12:26:05 PM  
I'm torn between a Lost reference or a Hot Fuzz reference.

/pancake bunny pic?
//nah
 
productiveslacker
2008-04-14 12:27:16 PM  
TripTheLightFantastic: Yeah, you can't take that kind of thing home, the mother will never take it back.

I was kinda of thinking: Yeah, you can take that kind of thing home, the mother will never talk back.
 
FarkinHostile
2008-04-14 12:27:59 PM  
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Approves.
 
Staypuft_Mushmallow_Manz
2008-04-14 12:28:43 PM  
vaconex: undetonated dynamite

I doubt you'd find detonated dynamite.

That said, dynamite was designed to be stable, safe and easily transportable.

Thus, little to no danger.

If I remember my MacGuyver, given enough time the nitroglycerin starts to leak out of dynamite, and then a shack explodes, and then they fix the truck's engine with a ballpoint pen.


Also: Those big oil companies and their vicious attempts to bring products to market! We have to impede their attempts to expand production on all fronts!(On a completely unrelated note, when will gas prices come down? I'm sick of being gouged!)
 
Perducci
2008-04-14 12:29:11 PM  
Leslie Arzt is not amused.
 
Calvin Butterball
2008-04-14 12:33:28 PM  
The Velour Fog: I'm torn between a Lost reference or a Hot Fuzz reference.

/pancake bunny pic?
//nah

No more "There Will Be Blood"; "Saved By the Bell"; or Jimmy Walker references.

/Choose wisely
//*shakes fist*
 
Satanic_Hamster
2008-04-14 12:33:59 PM  
I'm a licensed blaster. I use dynamite almost daily (in fact, I just took delivery of 1300 sticks of 60% extra gel today).

Taking it home to your kitchen is... Well, nothing. Unless it's VERY old dynamite that's been sitting in a dry area, there's very little danger. And if it's been sitting out of the woods, in moisture? The odds of something bad happening are beyond remote.

Of course, that's even assuming it's a nitro based dynamite.

Now, the article sucks. But based on it, I'm making the assumption the author failed to connect the two parts of the article. You see, in oil exploration, they use what's called "seismic charges." IE, dynamite. After drilling a test well, you lower a stick or two of this down and detonate it. It's part of the exploration process.

Odds are, crews left a stick behind.

Now, if the people REALLY want to shut down the project, they shouldn't be concerned about the environmental aspect; they need to raise a stink with the ATF about the blasters leaving explosives laying around.
(also, the guy violated several federal and state laws by touching the explosives and transporting it to his house)

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Currently listening to Electric Light Orchestra's Secret Messages
 
redufo
2008-04-14 12:35:17 PM  
I did the samething years ago. Was out hunting with my brother and we found this place the Army used for training. The idiots buried about 30 sticks of TNT.

Man we were so happy to find it, that we brought it all home. Mom didn't like it laying around so we hid it under the trailorhouse for a couple of months. Later my dad said it wasn't a good idea and we ended up driving back to the Army location and reburied it. Probably luck I ain't dead.

Lucky I didn't have that TNT 3 years later when the football jocs picked on me, or I would blowed up their mopars.
 
Jument
2008-04-14 12:41:21 PM  
FarkinHostile: As it ages, and depending on the environmental conditions, dynamite "sweats" nitroglycerin, which is very shock/heat sensitive to detonation.

This is bad news for science teachers but if you are careful you can still use old sweaty dynamite to blow open hatches.
 
durbnpoisn
2008-04-14 12:43:29 PM  
I still can't get over that scene from Lost a few seasons ago where some obscure character named Arz (I think), was trying to show the rest of the group how important it is to be EXTREMELY careful when handling nitro-based dynamite. Then proceeded to blow him self to pieces in the middle of his lesson.

That was one short lived character.
 
Nilatir
2008-04-14 12:45:06 PM  
I don't think he actually took the dynamite home per se, I'm thinking it's a poorly written/worded article.
 
The Velour Fog
2008-04-14 12:52:00 PM  
durbnpoisn: I still can't get over that scene from Lost a few seasons ago where some obscure character named Arz (I think), was trying to show the rest of the group how important it is to be EXTREMELY careful when handling nitro-based dynamite. Then proceeded to blow him self to pieces in the middle of his lesson.

That was one short lived character.

He was in some flashbacks in Season 3

/"You've got some Arnst on you"
 
ElLoco
2008-04-14 1:04:22 PM  
The best way to dispose of stick dynamite is to break it open, crumble it up by grinding the two halves together, and spread it out. The trees and grasses there would have loved him for it.
 
OnmyojiOmn
2008-04-14 1:08:08 PM  
ElLoco: The best way to dispose of stick dynamite is to break it open, crumble it up by grinding the two halves together, and spread it out. The trees and grasses there would have loved him for it.

Uh, demolitionist Farkers: is this for reals or will it kill me horribly? Thanks in advance.
 
Unknown_Poltroon
2008-04-14 1:08:31 PM  
Satanic_Hamster:
(also, the guy violated several federal and state laws by touching the explosives and transporting it to his house)



fark em, finders keeBOOOOM!!
 
Vorpal
2008-04-14 1:09:54 PM  
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Dyad Petroleum, a subsidiary of ACME
 
Whodat
2008-04-14 1:14:27 PM  
OnmyojiOmn: ElLoco: The best way to dispose of stick dynamite is to break it open, crumble it up by grinding the two halves together, and spread it out. The trees and grasses there would have loved him for it. light the fuse and run like hell!

FTFY
 
justanotherfarkinfarker
2008-04-14 1:15:18 PM  
ElLoco: The best way to dispose of stick dynamite is to break it open, crumble it up by grinding the two halves together, and spread it out. The trees and grasses there would have loved him for it.

Uh, demolitionist Farkers: is this for reals or will it kill me horribly? Thanks in advance.

Sounds fine to me. You need a cap to set it off.

Personally I'd go fishing with it.
 
Begoggle
2008-04-14 1:20:25 PM  
Arzt FTW
 
Satanic_Hamster
2008-04-14 1:25:22 PM  
OnmyojiOmn: Uh, demolitionist Farkers: is this for reals or will it kill me horribly? Thanks in advance.

Maybe, if you have a heart condition. Odds are, it will just give you the WORST freaking headache of your life.

Nitro poisoning, for the win!

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Currently listening to Beaten Awake's Let's Get Simplified
 
hard2bnice
2008-04-14 1:27:28 PM  
Satanic_Hamster: I'm a licensed blaster. I use dynamite almost daily (in fact, I just took delivery of 1300 sticks of 60% extra gel today).

Taking it home to your kitchen is... Well, nothing. Unless it's VERY old dynamite that's been sitting in a dry area, there's very little danger. And if it's been sitting out of the woods, in moisture? The odds of something bad happening are beyond remote.

Of course, that's even assuming it's a nitro based dynamite.

Now, the article sucks. But based on it, I'm making the assumption the author failed to connect the two parts of the article. You see, in oil exploration, they use what's called "seismic charges." IE, dynamite. After drilling a test well, you lower a stick or two of this down and detonate it. It's part of the exploration process.

Odds are, crews left a stick behind.

Now, if the people REALLY want to shut down the project, they shouldn't be concerned about the environmental aspect; they need to raise a stink with the ATF about the blasters leaving explosives laying around.
(also, the guy violated several federal and state laws by touching the explosives and transporting it to his house)

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Currently listening to Electric Light Orchestra's Secret Messages

I think I got more information from this post than I've ever gotten on any other post ever in my history on Fark.
 
alcoholwasinvolved
2008-04-14 1:33:58 PM  
These people need to put their money where their mouth is. If they don't want the Oil & Gas development, then buy out the mineral rights. At a minimum they should've been involved in the NEPA process or the Pike Nat'l Forest Plan. Biatching about it now is ridiculous.
 
Thats an 827
2008-04-14 1:46:12 PM  
Have heard in the past dynamite sticks include multi-color coded beads which identify the manufacturer and lot. If so I wonder if this could be a stick conveniently dropped by an anti-drilling activist.
 
Johnny Bananapeel [OhFark]
2008-04-14 1:51:18 PM  
FTFA: "I've always said we're so lucky to live have lived here here before the energy company that quietly bought the drilling rights in a sweetheart deal with the corporate whores in Washington came and turned our neighborhood into a toxic moonscape," Gloria Lanyon says.

FTFY
 
RUSH'N_ATTACK
2008-04-14 2:28:05 PM  
alcoholwasinvolved: These people need to put their money where their mouth is. If they don't want the Oil & Gas development, then buy out the mineral rights. At a minimum they should've been involved in the NEPA process or the Pike Nat'l Forest Plan. Biatching about it now is ridiculous.

THIS

Or if they don't want the wells close to their house, they should buy the land. This is the same as asshats who biatch when someone builds across the street and blocks the view. If you want the preserve the land around you, BUY IT.
 
destrip
2008-04-14 2:51:16 PM  
View down from "only" a 1226-foot-tall radio tower (the bunker it stood on is now a death trap in the central Mojave Desert) - photo by Jon Tooley, who worked at the facility. The thing I can't understand is the guy wire with a curve in it...

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For a really cool narrative about the site, check out Hawes Radio Relay Facility (new window)
 
Satanic_Hamster
2008-04-14 4:04:57 PM  
Thats an 827: Have heard in the past dynamite sticks include multi-color coded beads which identify the manufacturer and lot. If so I wonder if this could be a stick conveniently dropped by an anti-drilling activist.

Doubt it. If they went to the effort to steal dynamite (STUPID MOVE), then they'd likely be stupid enough to use it for eco-terrorism. Plus, they'd also have to steal the same exact dynamite as the ones the drillers are using.

Which would require knowing WHICH seismic explosive the drillers are using and stealing that exact same kind (and ALL that crap is special order / not a stock item). Never put down to maliciousness what can be just as easily down to incompetence.

IE, some dumb fark on the drilling crew dropped a stick on the ground and the blaster didn't catch the discrepancy on number of sticks used vs. predicted use.

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Currently listening to B.B. King's King of the Blues[box set]
 
cyberwolf
2008-04-14 4:25:57 PM  
Johnny Bananapeel: FTFA: "I've always said we're so lucky tolive have lived here here before the energy company that quietly bought the drilling rights in a sweetheart deal with the corporate whores in Washington came and turned our neighborhood into a toxic moonscape," Gloria Lanyon says.

FTFY

FTFY

/Rotsky'd
 
Basket Case
2008-04-14 4:49:25 PM  
If you want to keep dynamite in your kitchen make sure to keep it in the freezer.

/trying to help Darwin out here
//dynamite doesn't like cold
 
Jaromir
2008-04-14 4:56:26 PM  
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