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General Topics Forums => Unimog Pictures, Vids and Brochures! => Topic started by: njc110381 on March 01, 2013, 10:18:10 am
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Funnily enough I did say in the police interview that I'd done it loads of times and I'd never had one blow up like that before! They actually had another one that was very similar from about a year previously that they had kept a record of, but they could never work out who did it because I wasn't on file.
It was the fact that I'd let it off in the hotel garden that really put the pressure on them to catch me. I'd made literally hundreds of smaller ones in the past but because I'd always set them off in remote areas they never got picked up on. The final straw was that the weekend before I set mine off, the first of the London nail bombs was detonated and a lot of people were hurt. I was working away during the week so had completely missed all of that information! Before they caught up with me they thought I was a nutter trying to achieve the same outcome, which couldn't have been further from the truth.
When I was arrested it was for causing an explosion with intent to endanger life - attempted murder pretty much. I was arrested by a detective chief inspector with armed backup... To say they hit me hard and fast is an understatement - My feet didn't touch the ground between my car and the van and they didn't open the doors until I was locked in a secure razor wired compound back at the station. Even then I was being held onto by a copper that made a bear look small!
All credit to them, if I was a nutter they took me down absolutely perfectly. I didn't expect a thing and before I had time to react to what was going on I was restrained and frisked. For all the bashing the police get, looking back I'm proud that my local guys could pull something off that cleanly.
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did you inform them in your court case about this practice :D
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If it was legal I could come up with some quality entertainment. I've had a huge interest in explosives since my early teens and can make pretty much anything from black powder to improvised TNT, all from memory. I don't do it any more though since learning quite how seriously it can be taken. I think if it wasn't for a reference given for me from a personal friend who is a retired prison governor I would have done a couple of years. I've got too many responsibilities to risk making even really small stuff as a joke these days.
Youtube is a great watch for me now. Search for the right things and you can watch crazy people all over the world making all the things I used to. My very favourite which was very impressive, relatively safe before it dried and easy to make was Nitrogen Triiodide. Put a tiny amount (I was always careful to only use enough to make people jump without getting hurt) of that somewhere people will walk in mid summer and it'll dry on the pavement in minutes. When someone walks past, well...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KlAf936E90
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I bet your a great laugh to be around on november 5th.
Lol.
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It was back when I was 18. I've always had an interest in that sort of stuff so I made myself a decent sized batch of anfo. Then me and a mate carried it down the road and put it in the corner of the local hotel garden - they were posh used to hold loads of firework parties and annoy the residents (us) so I figured I'd give them some payback.
Trouble was I got my maths a bit wrong. Instead of making a bit of a bang it was huge. They found the lid of the box it was in about 250 yards away and there was a hole in the lawn big enough to bury a washing machine in!
Here's a youtube video I found of 16kg of it going off. I recon that's about the size of the one I made, although I didn't weigh it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2m-ptUHWms
Edit... The police called out the EOD. It took me over a year with two visits to crown court to talk myself out of it. Ended up doing 120hrs of community service which was a result. I nearly went down for it.
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wht did you set a bomb of for! :o and do you mean they were called out or were they there when you did it? :D
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No, but I have got just the one conviction under my belt that sounds a hell of a lot more serious than it actually is. For my troubles I've been entered onto the terrorist register for life for setting off a small bomb. :-[
Edit... I say small, the army EOD attended so it wasn't that small!
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Yeah it is a shame. Perhaps I should just set fire to it instead?! ;D
have you got a history of setting fire to cars ??? :D
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Yeah it is a shame. Perhaps I should just set fire to it instead?! ;D
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Think they might know it was you by the tractor tyre track going over the car lol
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If only I'd get away with it hey. Would it really be legal to tow it? Perhaps if I could tow it onto my drive I could then drive over it as it's on my property?!
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I was thinking I could just drive over it! :D
Well you know accidents do happen :D
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I was thinking I could just drive over it! :D
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That's interesting. Some numpty regularly parks with their bonnet blocking my driveway. Perhaps one day when I want to go out I'll not bother asking them to move. >:(
have u ever seen what happens with a tow chain and a mog ;) :D
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That's interesting. Some numpty regularly parks with their bonnet blocking my driveway. Perhaps one day when I want to go out I'll not bother asking them to move. >:(
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yeeeah, weve lifted the back right wheel of the crew cab up 3 foot before any of the others started lifting before now, and thats not the best chassis for it either due to the cab mounting system.
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Do you recon you could get a U900 up on the bonnet of a small car without damaging it? The mog not the car, before you start calling me stupid!
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ive heard a couple of stories about people driving over people bonnets in mogs, ive even heard stories of people in 2450's driving over and not realising until they looked at it... although i think that might be exaggeration...
and yeah people are right wazzoks when it comes to pulling out on a mog, they look at it, think its a tractor and just pull out >:( either that or they go to pull out, hesitate, then decide to go for it anyway! need a good air horn on a mog... ;)
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Yeah a 406 would probably climb a car bonnet nicely and you can see how close that square cab is to climbing a van! I know one lad who nearly ramed a car. He wasnt paying attention on a traffic jam and set off but forgot about the little car hidden infront of the Chipper. Luckly the car set off b4 him
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I guess when they do hit they just climb up an average bonnet? It is a worrying thought.
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Lucky he didn't go over the front of the van more. I think hitting another vehicle in my mog os the most scary thing about driving one. People don't realise mogs are fast and travel like a train when there at speed
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This made me smile. Spotted it on an arb forum that I'm a member of. I sure as hell wouldn't have wanted to be that van driver when he finally turned his head to see what was coming! :o
Apparently it bent his track rod...