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Oh, boy. After running the plates of a suspicious vehicle and finding an outstanding arrest warrant, Birmingham police pulled over and searched the car in question. Inside the found a man, his lady friend and a live grenade from WWII. He’s been using it, he says, as a paperweight.
What happens when you combine one ton of water, seven grams of black powder and a high-speed camera? You get this lovely explosion, which is to be featured in the upcoming BBC show Everything and Nothing. Pretty cool. [BBC]
Thank goodness most criminals aren’t masterminds. Like Ernesto Garcia-Bristo here, a 26-year old man who was recently arrested in Ocean City, MD for possession of two pipe bombs. How did the cops track down such a menace? Oh, you know, just cruising by his Facebook profile.
Alexandre Farto, also known as Vhils, blows stuff up to make art. OK, it requires a lot more precision than that—he actually detonates explosives packed behind plaster and brick to reveal striking representative images and cleanly rendered words. It’s pretty amazing. Here you can see the technique in gorgeous slow-mo, scored by a nice tune from Orelha Negra. [Vhils via BoingBoing]
I thought bomb squads used robots to extract explosives in a safe manner. When said robot drops potentially live grenades AND THEN RUNS OVER THEM with its treads, I don’t think the robot is doing a very good job.
Terry Allen Lester of Waseca, Minnesota, was arrested for allegedly giving his ex-girlfriend a sex toy for a Christmas present. Not just any sex toy, though! This one was rigged with a bomb.
