Bomb Explodes at PayPal HQ
Wednesday, November 1st, 2006 - 4:08pm
http://cbs5.com/local/local_story_305004735.html
Looks like PayPal went and froze the wrong Beanie Baby collector's account.
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Great bomb, I didn't think they made them in single window shattering sizes. Sounds like a halloween prank with just a wee bit too much gunpowder.
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I don't think so.
It would take a whole lot of gunpowder to shatter a 6x7 foot window on a commercial building. I doubt pretty seriously that something like that would be prank sized.
Having actually worked around demolition, I can tell you that the science is a lot more complicated than most folks realize. I've seen a professional blow 2' deep craters exactly 3.5' wide and trench shaped to remove sidewalk no more than 10 feet from the front of a building and yet not break a single window.
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Wow - I hope they find the S.O.B. Why PayPal I wonder...
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Beanie Baby Collectors on a Jihad, if you will? God help us. God help us all.
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Wow, I thought that was sarcasm....beanie babies? Seriously, wow. How sad would it have been for people to die in a beanie baby fueled assault...
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Well, you know how it goes. "Gotta Catch 'Em All". It's a sort of addiction that I will never understand.
They might as well be Pokemon anyway. They are small, soft to the touch... and as we can see from this news story, also dangerous.
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Maybe the bomb was a Beanie Baby. Like a Beanie Baby suidice bomber.
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It all depends on the placement. You could blow a plate glass window with a reasonable amount of gunpowder using various type's of shaped charges. Although you'd ideally want an explosive with a higher brisance in this application, with proper skills and a little luck you could make it work. These types of materials aren't exactly readily available to the general population though...
In this case it sounds like it was more than gunpowder. Something of the home-made variety. The window wasn't much higher than street level (they mentioned it was near a walkway behind the building) and the composition of the glass comes into play too (this was plate glass which is pretty resistant to concussive forces).
Just a guess but I'd say we were talking about a relatively small charge (man-carried), home-made bathtub explosive (Cookbook Variety), and placement very close to the window itself (if not actually attached).
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Yup. I was also assuming that the bomb was placed on the ground in front of the window instead of actually adhered to it. It is trivially easy to blow a plate glass window to pieces if you detonate the explosive in contact with it.
I agree with your assessment though. Probably a dufflebag full of homemade nitrate and diesel.
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Probably these people.
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I just find it really bizzare that the only thing they took out was a plate glass window. Thats the best they could do? I would think that someone with a vendetta against Paypal would do a wee bit more damage than that, homemade explosives or not.
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PayPal? I thought that was Bonzi Buddy!
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It's ever been my experience that folks with opportunity and expertise rarely have inclination. It is probable that the converse is also true. This is pretty easily explanable as a case of incompetence.
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