[neact] Re: Soda bottle bombs
- From: Lois Ongley <longley@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "neact@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <neact@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 09:29:13 -0400
I know I wasn't "fun" HS chem teacher. I chose not to use uncontrolled
exothermic reactions as demos in class! I know they can find it on the internet
and probably YouTube tho.
Lois Ongley
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From: neact-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [neact-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Stephen Stepenuck [sstepenuck@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2012 5:30 PM
To: neact@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [neact] Soda bottle bombs
The clip below is from the ACS Division of Chemical Health and Safety’s
listserve today.
These devices have been in the news frequently lately.
It struck me that any of us teaching might find ourselves embroiled in a
similar situation.
Perhaps it’s time to remind our students that a bomb is a bomb is a bomb, i.e.
the only consequences are not necessarily noise...
While it was probably not of today’s “typical” formulation, we know of a former
student who lost his eyesight and several fingers to a homemade bomb.
We have a town roadside cleanup coming up next month, and this type of device
will have to be added to the “do not touch” list associated with our
pre-cleanup safety instructions.
Now that I think of it, this should probably be education for all this year,
including at-home children who might spot such a device.
Steve Stepenuck
KSC emeritus
From the DCHAS-L list:
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FOUR TEENS CHARGED IN EXPLOSIONS, FIRES IN LIVERMORE FALLS, RUMFORD
http://www.sunjournal.com/news/franklin/2012/03/13/four-teens-charged-explosions-fires-livermore-fall/1167246
Tags: us_ME, public, explosion, response, bomb, illegal
Four teenage boys — two from Livermore Falls and two from Rumford — are charged
with setting off six soda bottle bombs and igniting two fires in their
respective towns over the weekend, officials said Monday.
The State Fire Marshal's Office charged the Livermore Falls boys, ages 14 and
15, with criminal use of explosives. They are accused of making six devices
that blew up in the Baldwin, Church, Pleasant, Knapp and Green streets area,
Steve McCausland, spokesman for the Maine Department of Public Safety said in a
statement.
During the investigation, the boys were identified and came to the Livermore
Falls Police Station with their parents Sunday for questioning, state
investigator Ken MacMaster of the Office of the State Fire Marshall said Monday.
The pair admitted to making the bombs, he said. The contents in the bottles
created a chemical reaction that caused them to explode, MacMaster said. No one
was hurt and no property was damaged but the potential was there, because they
added BB's, he said.
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