The ATF strikes again ...

UPDATE: ATF official rethinking exercise after sparking wildfire
Posted: Wednesday, May 11, 2011 5:00 pm | Updated: 6:58 am, Thu May 12, 2011.

An ATF official is rethinking a training exercise to detonate explosives that sparked a wildfire in northwestern Motley County on Tuesday.

"In hindsight, we should have," Jim Luera, resident agent in charge for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms in Lubbock, said in response to whether his agency should have delayed the exercise conducted while much of the region is under a burn ban due to wildfire-ripe conditions.

"There's a burn ban on and red flag warning and they're out there blowing stuff up," said Coy Franks, who leases pasture land in the area.

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Luera said the federal agency routinely disposes of explosives it acquires, many of which are "oil field explosives that they can no longer use because they get wet or sat out too long." Detonation exercises are conducted to train area bomb squads, and representatives from Lubbock, Amarillo, Abilene, Midland and Odessa, as well as Texas Tech University, reportedly were on hand Tuesday.
http://www.myplainview.com/news/article_6e2010d4-7c1a-11e0-9e7e-001cc4c03286.html

In what is probably either a clever fraud or a totally unrelated coincidence, a reader in New Orleans found something strange in the "casual encounters" section of Craigslist New Orleans... An ad popped up on December 2, two days after Vanderwerf's arrest, but several days before news of Vanderwerf's arrest became public. This ad claimed that a glory hole at the Metairie Residence Inn was "infected with stds." While the guest was said to give "great" head, the writer claimed to have contracted both herpes and hepatitis A as a result of one of his numerous visits.