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mostlytree wrote:Iam not a caver, and I'm not in your community yes so please forgive me in advance. but this is stupid. those things are not "bombs" and I promise the terrorist task force does not care. if the can it was contained in disappeared, then you are getting close to a bomb, but popping a tin can a few feet in the air is a joke to those guys.
in my opinion there are two things that really striking out to me. about this. first there is no address of why the thing was set off. why? mallace or stupid fun ? I m going stupid fun and here is why. if these things are made and set off regularly at these parties, it may seem as if that is what you do, and that is ok! if the crowd cheers when they hear one that is a sign as a outsider that its not only a normal thing but almost expected. this is still a stupid idea but hey its your stupid idea, just own it. its not fair to change the rules all the sudden, and throw the guy who did it under the bus. as soon as someone threatens to sue. I would not want to be part of a group that does that. just something to think about.
what really scares me is the reaction to the car deal. so from reading the article the driver of the car understood what it was and made the conscious deasision to try and go around/over it???? I say over because that is how close you would have to get to even see a mark on the car. that is the worst decision in the whole story. by your definition we will call it a bomb, so driver sees a "bomb" in path. Driver. is one two things either really understands its not a bomb and makes the call, or very deliberately drove a car over what they saw as a bomb. . Now the driver knows the facts. and is dealing in real time. there is no senario that works with the traumatized story. it cannot work.
you don't get to knowingly drove over a bomb and then claim damages. for that you get a moron award. this is a huge flaw in our system, it should be delt with separately
you did something illegal, here is your penalty, you did something stupid, here is yours, you get to drive a messed up car.
I am so tired of when someone does something they should not it means that other party looses all accountability, and if they choose to do something stupid it actually pays! this makes no sense. this grooms people to start to look around for someone to blame as soon as they realize they did something stupid. there has to be a whipping boy here somewhere. driving on or around a perceived bomb is stupid.
Chads93GT wrote:Just because there may not have been malice intent does not mean it wasn't a crime
Ernie Coffman wrote:To mostlytree and GroundquestMSA, if this all for fun and games, like my former brother-in-law used to do with nitro. Yep! In the olden days when loading nitro onto the rail cars, they would snap tiny pieces of it with their fingernails, etc. Eventually, one chunk exploded in his hand and he lost a couple of fingers, so..."that's no bomb" right? A stick of nitro isn't a bomb, either...until you throw it at something like a car, so then it becomes a bomb. Are we arguing over symantics...or what?
Chads93GT wrote:Whoever set it off and placed it next to my buddies truck and my camp side is a [CENSORED] moron who needs the shit kicked out of them.
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