The Los Angeles police department detonated a cache of homemade fireworks it had seized, causing a major explosion on a residential block that injured 17 people, flipped and damaged cars and smashed windows in nearby homes.
It could take days to determine why what was supposed to be a safe operation to handle explosives that police said were too unstable to remove turned into a huge explosion.
Police exploded the devices at about 7.30pm on Wednesday in an iron containment vessel on a tractor-trailer in a South Los Angeles neighborhood, believing the vehicle would be able to contain the explosion. But there was a “total catastrophic failure of that containment vehicle”, the LA police chief, Michel Moore, said, according to the LA Times.
The Los Angeles police department detonated a cache of homemade fireworks it had seized, causing a major explosion on a residential block that injured 17 people, flipped and damaged cars and smashed windows in nearby homes.
It could take days to determine why what was supposed to be a safe operation to handle explosives that police said were too unstable to remove turned into a huge explosion.
Police exploded the devices at about 7.30pm on Wednesday in an iron containment vessel on a tractor-trailer in a South Los Angeles neighborhood, believing the vehicle would be able to contain the explosion. But there was a “total catastrophic failure of that containment vehicle”, the LA police chief, Michel Moore, said, according to the LA Times.
When you outlaw everything remotely dangerous, people begin to not appreciate how dangerous those things actually are.
The Los Angeles police department detonated a cache of homemade fireworks it had seized, causing a major explosion on a residential block that injured 17 people, flipped and damaged cars and smashed windows in nearby homes.
It could take days to determine why what was supposed to be a safe operation to handle explosives that police said were too unstable to remove turned into a huge explosion.
Police exploded the devices at about 7.30pm on Wednesday in an iron containment vessel on a tractor-trailer in a South Los Angeles neighborhood, believing the vehicle would be able to contain the explosion. But there was a “total catastrophic failure of that containment vehicle”, the LA police chief, Michel Moore, said, according to the LA Times.
When you outlaw everything remotely dangerous, people begin to not appreciate how dangerous those things actually are.
They were not dangerous, they are only dangerous to people who don't know how to handle them... and the police obviously...
That was kind of my point. Since they are outlawed, they have no experience with them, making something that shouldn't be dangerous into something dangerous.
That was kind of my point. Since they are outlawed, they have no experience with them, making something that shouldn't be dangerous into something dangerous.
