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August 16, 2007
Deja WTF??
Lake Worth men nabbed with pipe bombs
BOYNTON BEACH — Police arrested two men who were driving around with potentially deadly pipe bombs as well as gloves and masks in their car, authorities said.
Investigators found two of the devices in the car and later discovered a third pipe bomb and bombmaking materials in the suburban Lake Worth apartment shared by the suspects, Raymond Kramer, 22, and Aaron Spoerke, 21.
Spoerke admitted to making the bombs with Kramer and told police he likes to "throw them into canals and watch them explode." Police found no further evidence of what the men planned to do with the bombs, but federal authorities ruled out any kind of domestic terrorism.
The pipe bombs, each made of PVC piping, end caps, duct tape, a fuse and gunpowder, could have caused serious injury or death, authorities said.
Police found the bombs during a routine traffic stop.
Police also found masks, gloves, flashlights, two small knives and about 15-feet of PVC pipe. Investigators found the third bomb and materials when they got consent to search the suspects' apartment. All the men said they used the gloves and flashlights for work.
Dayum.
I could only find this reported in the Palm Beach Post linked above and the Sun-Sentinel. No one else is talking about it.
Posted by LindaSoG at August 16, 2007 01:26 PM
Comments
To be fair the bombs don't sound like they were designed to kill. If they had been in steel pipe, or packed with shrapnel (nails, scrap metal, ball bearings, etc.) they would have been much more dangerous, but aside from powder burns if you get to close when it explodes, a PVC pipe bomb isn't going to do much in the context of killing/maiming.
consider: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipe_bomb
Posted by: William at August 25, 2007 02:33 AM