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What an idiot.
Ohio 'Sovereign Citizen' Loses Hands To Homemade Bomb
Alphonso D. Mobley Jr. was allegedly building a bomb with a powerful, but unstable explosive that he was cooking in the kitchen of a vacant Columbus, Ohio house when it detonated, blowing off both hands.
Despite his injuries, the 26 year-old man was charged yesterday with possession and manufacture of a dangerous ordnance alongside 21 year-old Roberto M. Innis Jr.
Uninjured in the Tuesday morning blast, Innis called emergency services to the scene and later allegedly confessed to helping manufacture a dangerous ordnance.
Triacetone triperoxide, better known as TATP, is an old, but powerful explosive used by suicide bombers in the Paris attacks last year. Long known to extremists as the mother of Satan,' it is easily set off by friction, static electricity, or flame.
While there is no word yet on where Mobley learned to make the compound, neighbors tell 10TV that both are sovereign citizens,' a category that the FBI and other law enforcement agencies consider at least as dangerous as Islamic terrorists.
Most sovereign citizens' are not violent. Some are merely deluded by tax avoidance schemes, while others are paper terrorists' who use false liens and other instruments to commit fraud. Still others are just petty criminals, homeless squatters, or paranoid Dale Gribble characters who want to skip paying for a driver's license and car registration.
http://crooksandliars.com/2016/04/ohio-sovereign-citizen-loses-hands
IdaBriggs
(10,559 posts)Most sovereign citizens' are not violent. Some are merely deluded by tax avoidance schemes, while others are paper terrorists' who use false liens and other instruments to commit fraud. Still others are just petty criminals, homeless squatters, or paranoid Dale Gribble characters who want to skip paying for a driver's license and car registration.
thesquanderer
(11,990 posts)How do we build a wall to keep these guys away from the rest of us?
Warpy
(111,319 posts)A lot of them would probably benefit greatly from rumps full of Thorazine.
Javaman
(62,532 posts)most are dangerous to themselves. lol
jtuck004
(15,882 posts)Google search for "sovereign citizen shooting"
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thesquanderer
(11,990 posts)Glassunion
(10,201 posts)skepticscott
(13,029 posts)Does he get half a Darwin Award?
Glassunion
(10,201 posts)shame really.
tabasco
(22,974 posts)Knuckled under to police pressure.
Glassunion
(10,201 posts)It's nice to see the feds and local police working hand in hand on this.
hatrack
(59,592 posts)NCjack
(10,279 posts)d_legendary1
(2,586 posts)I would think.
JimDandy
(7,318 posts)NCjack
(10,279 posts)Initech
(100,097 posts)Helen Borg
(3,963 posts)Without this happening, he might have injured other people.
silvershadow
(10,336 posts)Takket
(21,607 posts)one of them blows his hands off?
Well, call a taxpayer funded paramedic of course!!!!
immoderate
(20,885 posts)--imm
Hoppy
(3,595 posts)Fritz Walter
(4,291 posts)He's finding out who his real friends are: someone's going to be on toilet paper duty for him for the rest of his life.
Human101948
(3,457 posts)Kohler C3 Series Toilet Seats Offer Hands-Free Butt-Washing, American Style
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-none
(1,884 posts)Then there is the dropping the pants and getting them back up and zipped back us and stuff.
How about then he has to take a leak?
This is getting too much to think about.
SheilaT
(23,156 posts)since he's totally opposed to Obamacare? And now he'll expect to get all the serious medical attention he now needs paid for by someone else, i.e. the Government? Which will of course, include prostheses for the rest of his life.
I think for someone like that, they should just bandage the stumps, give him a week's script for pain killers, and send him home. That's more than enough.
Beach Rat
(273 posts)Sorry, I couldn't resist. My brother-in-law is a police detective. These sovereign citizens scare the bejeezus out of the cops. He says you never know what your walking into. They're all armed. They're always getting served with warrants because they're getting charged with something from of one of their idiotic schemes like driving without license plates, having phony ID's and not showing up to court. One guy even made his own license plates. They're always belligerent. One guy in Kenilworth he had to pick up for not having a registration or insurance on his car said he didn't have to pay taxes because he was a diplomat from the "Kingdom of Heaven". You walk up to their house to serve a warrant for not showing up for a traffic ticket and you never know if they're going to start taking pot shots at you. Colorful.
On edit, I didn't read the article. He blew off BOTH hands. I guess that's Alphonso "Stumpy" Mobley. I guess he won't be doing math anymore.
maxrandb
(15,345 posts)Archae
(46,340 posts)Remember when the Weather Underground lost half their membership, when their bomb-maker blew himself up?
Grins
(7,226 posts)Well - yeah!
Are there no editors?
NBachers
(17,133 posts)"Sovereign Citizen" is rushed to taxpayer-supported medical care by emergency responders.
"Sovereign Citizen" will now expect taxpayer supported government care for the rest of his useless life.
Sounds like somebody I know- Military to Post Office to nice retirement- but he hates the government.
JunkYardDogg
(873 posts)After all, a true sovereign citizen wouldn't eat none of that U.S.D.A. gobermint inspected meat
And just what were these fucks planning on blowing up? A planned parenthood clinic? A gay bar?
A glove manufacturing plant? A nail/manicure salon? A finger painting art studio?
Human101948
(3,457 posts)Fritz Walter
(4,291 posts)He's already started a GoFundMe page to pay for these (and the Murkan' bidet you showed above).
Gotta love Yankee enginuity.
Can we start calling him Garth Vader?
SoLeftIAmRight
(4,883 posts)...
Fritz Walter
(4,291 posts)Apologies to Alfred Lloyd Tennyson
yortsed snacilbuper
(7,939 posts)awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,027 posts)Chicago1980
(1,968 posts)NCjack
(10,279 posts)Human101948
(3,457 posts)The sooner the better.
hatrack
(59,592 posts). . . a guy can dream.
So Far From Heaven
(354 posts)it's going to be a couple of years of discussion before they discover that isn't going to work.
So Far From Heaven
(354 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2016/04/07/suspected-bomb-maker-held-on-bond.html
Vinca
(50,300 posts)Response to Vinca (Reply #39)
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Vinca
(50,300 posts)d_legendary1
(2,586 posts)I hope he doesn't have friends...
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)Fritz Walter
(4,291 posts)Sorry for the image that term evokes.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)NBachers
(17,133 posts)Guess he'll have to learn shorthand now.
Blue Dalek
(178 posts)I would say he has *not* learned to make the compound.
struggle4progress
(118,320 posts)since only an idiot would make it
mindwalker_i
(4,407 posts)Unfortunately, he won't be able to drive in California - you need at least one middle finger to be able to do that here.
pansypoo53219
(20,987 posts)no collateral darwin either.
Archae
(46,340 posts)MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)Without a doubt, they're trying to justify some act of assholery that they're about to commit.