"Works" Bomb Alert

[plumtreeblossom]

This is a Snopes article (of the true variety, not urban legend) worth passing along. "Works" bombs are simple but extremely dangerous explosives made with a soda bottle, Drano and aluminum foil. They have the capability of severing fingers and disfiguring faces, and it appears they're all the rage with America's fine youth these days. Don't touch capped soda bottles in your yard or elsewhere unless you can plainly see that it's completely empty. Call 911 instead.

http://www.snopes.com/crime/warnings/bottlebomb.asp

Comments

[minkrose]

No kidding. I just brought home a soda bottle to recycle on Sunday. It was sitting in a parking deck, clearly going to be trashed if I had left it there.

I'm fine, but now I'll be paranoid. None of my friends did crap like this when I was young. Hell, Andy grew up setting off fireworks and NO ONE ever got hurt because they were responsible about it.