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> You can do chemistry all your want, but attempting to build a bomb, even of the attempt doesn't succeed, is illegal. I will also say, that as a native New Yo
by fault1 5y ago
> You can do chemistry all your want, but attempting to build a bomb, even of the attempt doesn't succeed, is illegal.
I will also say, that as a native New Yorker, doing this type of "kitchen chemistry" (if that was he was doing) is _extremely_ reckless in a dense residential neighborhood.
He was either was just a hobbyist who liked experimenting with explosives and he was fine with recklessly endangering an entire community.... or he was planning to commit a bombing.
A different article:
> On Thursday, law enforcement sources told News 4 the fire started because he had a box next to his stove that caught fire. He tossed it, trying to douse the flames, and it landed in his living room, which then also caught fire.
So he went to the hospital with severe burns on his hands. We don't know yet exactly what he was doing, but I don't think he deserves anybody's sympathy. That has its limits.
- superkuh 5y agoYou guys are quoting all these "scary" lists of chemicals not realizing you're only proving my point. Those aren't chemicals for making explosives. They're for making fireworks at best. Non-detonating things that could burn fast and have pretty colors. I suppose we should charge everyone who starts a fire while cooking with reckless endangerment too? I get that there are different standards of liberty in dense urban areas but I don't think this is beyond them. It's just cops and feds talking up their non-bust.
- saltminer 5y agoAccording to [0], the charges appear to have been dismissed. While the facts seem quite damning, the prosecution must know something we don't. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29869547 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29869547
- superkuh 5y agoThey'll have had the local fire marshall come in to determine legality and when that failed to create a crime they'd fall back on the BS charge that was dismissed to justify their violence on the scene.