Man Faces Felony Charges for Homemade Bomb

[kman]

From: http://www.kten.com/article.asp?id=10639

Man Faces Felony Charges for Homemade Bomb

An explosive device detonated in a love county neighborhood rang through the entire town of Marietta last night.

KTEN’s Jocelyn Lockwood went to Love County and met with police and the man accused of setting off the dangerous devices. She has the story.

Anthony Hicks says he comes from a military family where he grew up making and detonating M.R.E bombs for fun.

M.R.E stands for meals ready to eat, and are the typical meal military members eat while in the field.

But officials say the bomb has the potential to dismember a person’s body and it’s a felony offense to detonate one.

Now, it’s not hard to get your hands on an M.R.E, and that’s what has police so worried.

Hicks says he’s known since he was 9 how to turn the ready made meals into an explosive device.

”There was the potential there to inflict harm if it was used inappropriately and that was the concern of officers and the District Attorney’s office,” said Gary Huff, Marietta Police Supervisor.

“You can put some shrapnel, like nails, in it and it probably, yes, it could probably hurt somebody, if it was done to hurt somebody,” said Anthony Huff, Bomb Suspect.

Hicks says he did nothing wrong.

He says the bomb is more of a big firecracker without the fire and he does it for his kids who like to hear the explosion.

So far no official charges have been filed and Hicks is not being held behind bars.

Jocelyn Lockwood, KTEN news.

[BackwoodsPundit]

I am gonna have to withold comment on this one til we see how the facts pan out . Like that recent bomber guy at the Oklahoma football game, first they say ohh he was just depressed.. then it turns out all his friends and roommates were militant islamic types...

Still the idea of making MREs explode is funny, if not so wasteful.

[kman]

I have a hard time calling this a "bomb" since it's really just an MRE heater in a 2 liter bottle with some water. Sure, it explodes, but so do fireworks - and those things spew out fire.

[BackwoodsPundit]

I have a hard time calling this a "bomb" since it's really just an MRE heater in a 2 liter bottle with some water. Sure, it explodes, but so do fireworks - and those things spew out fire.

LOl.. so this was really more like a big bottle of sodee pop then? The story doesn't make that very clear.

[DIRTYDAVE]

The police should allow you to explode all of the Country Captain Chicken you can...LOL!

Actually, I have about 60 MRE heaters that I have been trying to get rid of, I was planning on giving them to my brother so he and his neighbor can use them for the soda pop fireworks. I guess this sort of changes things! Altough on the 4th of July his cul-de-sac is like Iraq with all these crazy explosions going on, my bro usually spends about $500 on fireworks and we are not talking sparklers. I am talking the kinds of things that light up the entire sky!

[Rey]

I can see the BATF starting to regulate these “explosives". I've never tried to make one of these "MRE bombs" how much power can the heaters generate?

[kyle]

A little dry ice does the same thing,faster.

[King Leonidas]

"The children of western Iraqi border towns have a new toy since the Marines rolled through earlier this month — the MRE bomb."

Half-way down on the page: "New toy, bad habit"
http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?sec ... chive=true

[kyle]

Just a word to the wise or unwise,my kids love to make these bombs using the 8oz plastic coke bottles,use SAFETY glasses as they will throw shards of plastic 20 to 30 feet and can cut like glass.Other than that its lots of fun when playing war.