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Old 05-26-2008, 02:23 PM
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Default Re: Listen Up Young & Old

Some of you might remember the gas embargo in the seventies. People had a habit then of carrying a spare gallon of gas in the trunk of the car. At that time I was a member of the local pd.

We had a film of a car's "spare" gallon exploding in the trunk. The way the atf boys made it blow was not with c4 at all. They sat the junk car in the parking lot of a closed plant. The put 3/4 of a gallon of gasoline into a gallon metal container/ they left it in the sun most of the day. At 3pm they used a spark igniter only to fire the fumes. It blew the trunk lid off the car. Gasoline will explode if the circumstances are just right. I have never done it thank god, but I have no doubt that a half filled gas tank will create the right inviornment for an explosion. I call your attention to the airplane the blew up off the northeast coast of the usa a couple of years ago. A spark in a gas tank filled with fumes brought it down.

I believe you are riding around with half a stick of dynamite between your legs.
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