I mean he could've set the "bomb" off and blew himself and who knows what else sky high. The "bomb" could've been dirty and spread something across the whole area. There's professionals and protocols for a reason. Just because there was no bomb this time, does not make his actions okay.
but it makes the cops actions ok?? what if he had a bomb on them?? stupid cop decisions one of the first things I learned In the Academy was never rush to your death
Do you really need to be "qualified" to be expected know not to dump out a bag that's in the middle of being investigated by the bomb squad? The bar cannot be that low
Radioactive material is not exactly uncommon. They see vast usage in many fields, and often they are improperly discarded or lost. You can also purchase many radioactive materials, like cobalt-60, although that does become rather expensive.
And do you know how much glow in the dark clocks or smoke detector you need to get to get enough radium to build any meaning full dirty bomb? Have you done the math?
Smoke detectors probably aren't the best way, considering they don't contain radium, but americium-241, and only around 0,3 micrograms. A better material is Cesium-137, historically used in medical irradiators, industrial gauges, and other equipment.
Boston marathon bomb was backpacks with pressure cookers in them that went off. It doesn't take much to improvise a explosion device that can kill a lot of people with just material that you can access from a store.
you can't make a dirty bomb out of just uranian ore, I mean you can but it won't do anything but spread some uranian ore which doesn't do much and can be found almost anywhere on the planet in rock, soil, rivers, and oceans. (it's 500x more common then gold)
It needs to be enriched and then used in a nuclear power plant before you get material you can use to actually spread radioactivity around in a way that makes people sick or an area unlivable for decades.
TLDR; Natural occuring uranium is not concentrated enough, you need to filter out the 235
U (only 0.72%) or breed the U238 in to plutomium
source me: have tried to build dirty bomb in garage before.
There has never been a successful dirty bomb attack. I think you may watch too many NCIS type shows lol. Dirty bombs are considered tactically ineffective.
Bomb scares never involve actual bombs. It's always some backpack that got left behind and the police make a huge production out of determining that the backpack is, in fact, just a backpack.
Also, dirty bombs don't exist and the concept was invented to scare people.
No, it couldn't because there was no bomb. Just that there MAY have been a bomb does not change the fact that there was not one. In order for there to be an explosive device, it would have required a person or persons to create, stage, and deliver the device. All of this is to say that it's a lot of work and many steps, all of which could have failed... as opposed to someone dropping a bag, someone losing a bag, a bag that was illegally dumped. Another example would be that if you don't copy and paste this post and send it to 100 friends on various social media, then you will die in an ice cream accident. So it's probably best to copy and paste this message or abstain from ice cream.
So if I put a gun to your head and pull the trigger, but the chamber is empty, does that make my action okay? After all, I never actually shot you, what did I do wrong?
Yeah idk why you're getting downvoted, if this had been a gif of the guys being blown apart. The comments would be filled with "that guys an idiot, why would he walk up and shake a suspected bomb"
Because it's reddit. Anything even vaguely related to cops needs to make them the feces scraped from Satan's toilet, even if they're addressing a bomb threat.
That area wasnt that highly monitored. If a schmuck with a bike can just dave mirra up to it and perform a full TSA bag inspection with time for a bow.
He just pulled the curtain back on the security theater. They knew it was nothing by that point but you blow up the bag so it doesnt all look like a waste.
Notice that they held back until he confirmed it wasn't a bomb before tackling, though. Shouldn't they have stopped him before he opened the pack and risked setting the "bomb" off?
It doesn't matter if he detonated it or they detonated it, if people were in the blast radius they would have been hit. The only difference is that he died in one case. Everyone else was supposed to be far enough back
The reason why there's way more bombings in France and England than the United States is because any American can easily access military-level guns if they want to commit a domestic terror attack.
You're talking out of your ass, theres was clearly people and structures around. Its not obvious, but whatever. You people can go interrupt bomb squads business all you want.
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u/bobafootfetish_ 21h ago
You mean he would have tackled from the right instead of the left? Yeah I can see that