Bombs, Buicks and Buckley.

Finally something to write about. Sorry folks, I have been feeling pretty good since my surgery and have been enjoying life, what with all the breathing, that I haven't been as pissed off as usual. But, if you know me, you know that won't last too long, so here I go again, just like David Coverdale when he had that former hotty Tawny Kitaen dancing on the hood of his car (that's right folks, I just made a Whitesnake reference). Anyway, back to the irritation. I just caught up on this news story about a man in Welch Township, Minnesota, who blew up a dump truck with one hundred pounds of Tannerite which he had purchased off the internet. He was then arrested and charged with three felonies and five lesser charges. Sounds pretty scary huh? A man blowing up a truck and endangering human life, what a terrible fellow. Yup, you could form a pretty horrible idea of this man and truly demonize him, especially in our media frenzy kinda world. Oh, but wait, there is a video. Yes, the man who set off this explosion, a Mr. Brian Wesley Childs, taped it. It is on his property you see. He invited friends over, placed the truck in the middle of a field, packed it with Tannerite and set it off with a .50 caliber slug. Now this would be a terrible idea inside city limits but, as you all know if you read regularly, I am from the insane state of Minnesota and I grew up in an area not unlike where the bomb was detonated. No one, other than the people that showed up to watch the bomb go off, were in any danger. Sure metal fell as far as a quarter mile away but that doesn't mean anything if no one was there. If a burning chunk of metal falls in the woods and no one is around to get hit by it, does it cause massive internal hemoraging? Answer that Confusious. This guy didn't do the smartest thing but he didn't do anything really illegal. You may legally purchase Tannerite on the internet because it comes in two parts and separated, these parts are non-explosive. You may legally own a rifle in Minnesota without telling the authorities you have it. Maybe setting off an explosion without a blasting permit but that is a gross misdemeanor at best. The fact is that they could feel the rattle in the windows at the local nuclear power plant, more than a mile away and it put them an alert. So, they make a call to the Feds and they come and do what they are paid to do, harass free people and make them stop doing things that make the people in power nervous. Speaking of people in power, I found a quote from the guy that runs the power plant and also alerted the Police. “We take all this type of abnormal — or suspicious — activity very seriously,”. That was from a Mr. Mike Wadley, VP of Excel Energies Nuke plant. Well Mr Wadley I am from a small town in the middle of Nowhere, Minnesota and I have been so bored before that any distraction, including seeing how long it took for your face to melt the frost on the kitchen window, was not just welcome, it was needed. And yes, I have exploded many things in my days o the farm. So for Mr. Wadley to say that his was "suspicious" or "abnormal', well he obviously grew up in a bigger city than Childs. Personally I think that the government just found a window of opportunity to make the Tannerite mixture illegal and they are going for it. Go ahead and Google earth this area and tell me who was in so much danger. Mr. Childs didn't commit any felonies he just did something that wasn't too bright and we can't put people in jail for being dumb. most of our country would be behind bars.

Ps. Whitesnake was the music that Bon Jovi and Winger fans listened to to get pumped up but it was usually too hardcore for Van Halen fans.