CIA Left Inert Explosives On School Bus After Exercise (reuters.com) 73
An anonymous reader writes: Students were transported in a Virginia school bus carrying inert explosives left by the CIA, officials said. The explosives were discovered in the engine, only after the Loudoun County Public Schools bus was undergoing maintenance. "The CIA assured Loudoun officials the training material used in this exercise is stable and posed no danger to students on board the bus," it said in a statement. The school district said the inert explosives, left behind by a CIA canine team, were inside a container and part of them apparently fell out into the engine space.
April Fools... (Score:2, Insightful)
...unfortunately not...
Intert? (Score:2, Insightful)
If they're intert, they're not explosives. They are imitation explosives.
Re:Intert? (Score:4, Funny)
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Was a photo also found of a someone making a gun shape with their fingers and holding a note making no demands?
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Inert explosives: Safe enough to keep on your kids' school bus, but a 4oz container of it in your carry-on is an incident.
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However, almost anything can be made to explode if know what you're doing. So long ago in junior high (this was before all the stupid paranoia) in science class we made explosives from many things, including charcoal, sugar, and steel. It's just basic chemistry. As to the sugar, we didn't just make it explode, we also made some rocket motors from it. It's a high
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However, almost anything can be made to explode if know what you're doing.
And have access to a sufficient quantity of antimatter.
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Lucky you, all I got in school even remotely related to chemistry was a thought exercise. Something along the lines of "what would happen if we exploded light?" Fucking brain dead bullshit. Obviously we would wreck the planet if not more.
Exploding light? You talking about Solaronite. It is well known that solaronite would explode the entire universe.
There is a documentary film you should see:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
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If they're intert, they're not explosives. They are imitation explosives.
Thank God they didn't leave a clock.
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There are a lot of high explosives that could be considered (practically) inert in the standard form. Without a proper initiator most military explosives are almost impossible to get to explode, requiring something like an intensive fire triggering a high speed deflagration that transform to a detonation that in turn triggers the explosive. Very unlikely.
But I agree that this is probably an imitation using something like modelling clay with traces of some explosive in it.
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No, they were real explosives according to ABC (http://abcnews.go.com/US/cia-accidentally-left-explosive-training-material-school-bus/story?id=38079658)
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Yeah, they would probably need something like a super high voltage shock to set it off. Luckily there's nothing like that in a engine compartment.
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$10M for detector tech and its outdone by a $0.8K dog (not counting equipment and "programming" for either).
shouldn't this kind of thing have a checklist/inventory sheet to prevent this from happening??
I hope they drained the gas tank (Score:1)
For the school kids safety did they leave live gasoline in the engine compartment too?
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gasoline
I hope not, gasoline would really screw up those diesel engines.
Re: Yawn (Score:2)
Re: Left shit behind (Score:1)
I left shit behind in a public restroom once... And it definitely wasn't inert.
Intentional (Score:2)
They were investigating the potential for bomb-sniffing schoolchildren.
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Posts elsewhere concluded it was C4.
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not presently exploding
Just like the North Korean nuclear arsenal.
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You can cut chunks of C4 off and burn it like sterno to heat a can of beans. You can shoot C4 point blank with a rifle and it won't explode. So, yeah, it's explosively inert as a chunk of wood is... until you add the high voltage blasting charge.
The bus needed to get over 50 to arm them any ways (Score:5, Funny)
The bus needed to get over 50 to arm them any ways
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Haha, I see the flaw in their terrorist plot.
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But those a "bom"s, this is clearly a bomb, totally different thing.
Sooo.... (Score:4, Funny)
The bomb sniffing dogs failed their training then?
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Drug sniffer dogs don't need a signal, they've been trained to recognise a black person by themselves.
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What else has been dropped? (Score:1)
"Hey Bobby, look what I found under the seat! It says, 'Area fifty one time portal module 7'. And a button! I wonder what happens if I pr [ZZZZERRRRRP]..."
NOT An April Fool's Joke (Score:2)
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Sorry, that was my fault, I had beans last night.
Whats the CIA doing this for (Score:3)
Shouldn't this be the FBI's job?
Yeah I know this is a joke anyway.
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So the CIA has to go out of the US do to their training too?
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good point, the CIA is not allowed to operate in the USA ..or in my kid's school
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All explosives are inert... (Score:2)
Or.... (Score:2)
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an ineptly failed false flag operation intended to justify continued war against brown people
Extremely inept, considering that the exercises were announced beforehand.
Let me guess... (Score:2)
I would imagine that if *I* left an inert explosive on a school bus after a training exercise I had that I would not get off as lightly as these people in the CIA just did.
I also noticed that the wording is such that the implication is that these were not in fact explosives but they stopped at saying that. If they were not explosives then they would say that these were not explosives. Since they were explosives then they have to make it sound like it wasn't a big deal by calling them "inert".
I guess that
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FYI, I live in, and my daughter attends school, in this district. Here are a few details not in TFS (direct from LCPS):
In response to this incident, the Sheriff’s Office, Fire Marshal, LCPS and the CIA announced that this particular training program has been suspended until a thorough review of all procedures is completed. As part of the training exercise last week, canine explosive detection training was conducted in areas inside and outside of Briar Woods. During the outside portion, a container
kids as a training exercise. (Score:2)
Don't you just love a country that uses our kids as a training exercise. Nothing worrisome about that at all!
why? (Score:2)
used busses only cost about a grand or two but they needed to borrow busses from a school district?
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used busses only cost about a grand or two but they needed to borrow busses from a school district?
Actually, they borrowed the whole school.