50 Alaska homes evacuated after explosives found

IDemo

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Sun May-08-11 08:22 AM
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50 Alaska homes evacuated after explosives found

Source: USA Today

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — State troopers said residents from about 50 homes were evacuated after the discovery of 550 pounds of explosives in an abandoned station wagon.

An explosives team from Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson destroyed the material Saturday morning in the Trapper Creek area and no one was injured.

Troopers spokeswoman Beth Ipsen says authorities were alerted to the ammonium nitrate and nitroglycerine Friday by the property owner who apparently just wanted to get rid of the material. The explosives were up to 20 years old and unstable.

After they were detonated, residents were allowed to return to their homes.

Read more: http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2011-05-08-alaska-homes-evacuated_n.htm

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Dennis Donovan

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Sun May-08-11 08:32 AM
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1. "Todd, do you remember where I parked the car?"

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Bonhomme Richard

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Sun May-08-11 08:33 AM
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2. I suspect she was going fishing. n/t

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IDemo

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Sun May-08-11 08:45 AM
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3. Or wolf hunting by helicopter n/t

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formercia

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Sun May-08-11 09:41 AM
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4. DuPont Spinner

Methinks.

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Javaman

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Sun May-08-11 11:35 AM
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5. Oh no, where's my car...

Yeah, just keeping ammonium nitrate and nitroglycerine around for kicks.

"okay, you kids, go out and play, but just don't go near the station wagon, okay?"

20 fucking years with nitro in it? Unstable? Yeah think? Cripes, it's a miracle it it wasn't detonated just by a butterfly landing on it.

we live in a world of stupid.

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TheWraith

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Sun May-08-11 12:14 PM
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6. Who the fuck leaves 550 pounds of ammonium nitrate and nitro in a station wagon?

And does so for 20 years?

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IDemo

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Sun May-08-11 12:20 PM
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7. Oh, come on

Doesn't everybody?

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GreatCaesarsGhost

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Sun May-08-11 02:29 PM
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8. That would have made a good call-in to Car Talk

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tonekat

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Sun May-08-11 11:02 PM
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9. Sarah, we found your car N/T

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