View Full Version : Explosives Thrown Into Wayah Tower
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http://www.thefranklinpress.com/articles/2009/09/23/news/01news.txt
Mother Nature
09-23-2009, 17:15
What can you say and keep it clean? :-? Idiots.
Rocket Jones
09-23-2009, 17:17
Where's Darwin when you need him?
sherrill
09-23-2009, 17:18
"Stupid is as stupid does" - Forrest Gump
Idiots. I'm glad they've been caught.
Community service. 20 hours a week for the next 5 years. They should build things for free so they learn how difficult it is. Their first job can be helping on the new Wayah tower.
Rain Man
09-23-2009, 17:29
I hate to say it, but much of my anger at the fiends got diluted when I learned the authorities are going to charge them with having and using "weapons of mass destruction." What a crock!
Still, where is "caning" when you need it?
Rain:sunMan
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I hate to say it, but much of my anger at the fiends got diluted when I learned the authorities are going to charge them with having and using "weapons of mass destruction." What a crock!
Still, where is "caning" when you need it?
Rain:sunMan
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Yeah, they really need an ass whipping but that would not be very PC now would it. :-?
sheepdog
09-23-2009, 17:34
I hate to say it, but much of my anger at the fiends got diluted when I learned the authorities are going to charge them with having and using "weapons of mass destruction." What a crock!
Still, where is "caning" when you need it?
Rain:sunMan
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Is that worse than arson? Where do they rate on the felony scale??
They are definately at the top of the dumb criminal scale.
MintakaCat
09-23-2009, 17:53
It was just last April that someone pulled a radio tower down on Wine Spring Bald less than a mile away.
Tennessee Viking
09-23-2009, 18:01
1st stupid thing they did was to vandalize federal property.
2nd stupid thing was to video tape themselves.
3rd stupid thing was to post it on YouTube.
How dumb can you get...
I work for the state and I would have been steaming if I had to work this case.
I am just glad it has been raining all this time and the tower and surrounding forest didn't catch fire.
sounds like they are about to get a good lesson on what not to do........ever again.........
Jester2000
09-23-2009, 18:36
This incident goes a long way towards confirming two theories I have:
1)if you need to look up directions on how to make a bomb on the internet, particularly a Molotov Cocktail for crissakes, you are probably too stupid to be making bombs, and
2) teenagers are idiots.
At least 300 miles or prison. Under supervision, of course.
YoungMoose
09-23-2009, 20:44
what Pricks
YoungMoose
09-23-2009, 20:45
This incident goes a long way towards confirming two theories I have:
1)if you need to look up directions on how to make a bomb on the internet, particularly a Molotov Cocktail for crissakes, you are probably too stupid to be making bombs, and
2) teenagers are idiots.
LoL thanks for your theory number 2
saimyoji
09-23-2009, 20:58
too bad they didn't blow up something more worthy....like BOK shelter. :eek::D
Tennessee Viking
09-23-2009, 21:05
At least 300 miles or prison. Under supervision, of course.
Make them hike the whole darn thing cowboy style since they want to attack one of the top cowboy spots.
generoll
09-23-2009, 22:43
they did this at least five times and videotaped it for youtube? That's top investigative work by the gendarmes?
Jester2000
09-24-2009, 11:44
LoL thanks for your theory number 2
No problem! I base that mostly on my and my friends' bahavior as teens, and a couple of years of teaching.
While there are many exceptions whom I know (AT thru-hiker Kirby is definitely one), you've got to admit that generally speaking it's true.
I wonder what, or who turned them over to the law? I mean there had to have been someone on youtube who knew where the tower was and probably turned them over to the law?
Jester2000
09-24-2009, 13:16
I wonder what, or who turned them over to the law? I mean there had to have been someone on youtube who knew where the tower was and probably turned them over to the law?
Doesn't seem that way. If you read the newspaper article, they were caught at a roadblock (not sure why that was set up); evidence of their repeated bombings was found through interviews and confirmed by evidence of their video camera.
So despite what some people might think, there actually was some good investigative work going on.
Ladytrekker
09-24-2009, 13:16
I don't care if they are teenagers, give them the max they can get. I let alot of things go but messing with my woods and messing with history just P me off and there is no obvious reasons for their aggression on a tower. I work at a morgue so I don't have as much compassion for people as I probably should cause I see it all and people aren't nice.
sherrill
09-24-2009, 13:17
Larry, according to the article, they went through a traffic checkpoint and an officer noticed a cut Forest Service gate lock in the car. Escalated from there.
dreamsoftrails
09-25-2009, 15:31
I don't care if they are teenagers, give them the max they can get. I let alot of things go but messing with my woods and messing with history just P me off and there is no obvious reasons for their aggression on a tower. I work at a morgue so I don't have as much compassion for people as I probably should cause I see it all and people aren't nice.
from their pictures they look like the 'reject society' types. they just chose the wrong society to reject.
i remember a few years ago i saw on TV some young teens who would burn entire houses that were for sell in developed neighborhoods out west, then they would film them from the distance.
Tuckahoe64
09-25-2009, 17:15
Hope they get the book thrown at them. What bugged me is how the reporter in the TV news piece refered to those involved as "young boys" when they are nothing of the sort, but young men/adults.
Oh yeah, and play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Wise Old Owl
09-25-2009, 17:44
from their pictures they look like the 'reject society' types. they just chose the wrong society to reject.
i remember a few years ago i saw on TV some young teens who would burn entire houses that were for sell in developed neighborhoods out west, then they would film them from the distance.
Ouch - have you walked the trail? any of them could double as our WB hikers.....:eek:
WILLIAM HAYES
09-25-2009, 17:52
They need to have their worthless balls cut off and nailed to the new tower
Was there any damage to the tower?
dreamsoftrails
09-26-2009, 20:49
Ouch - have you walked the trail? any of them could double as our WB hikers.....:eek:
yes, i have. i saw nobody resembling them.
Rain Man
09-28-2009, 15:42
They need to have their worthless balls cut off and nailed to the new tower
Not to argue, but why desecrate the "new" tower with their worthless, scummy, impotent teabags? I say feed 'em to some maggots instead.
Rain:sunMan
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waywardfool
09-29-2009, 21:13
Why can't morons like that aspire to me more like these guys....sheesh, amateurs.
http://www.firegeezer.com/2009/09/28/somebody-moved-the-decimal-point/
waywardfool
09-29-2009, 21:14
oops, "be"...not "me"
Why can't morons like that aspire to be more like these guys....sheesh, amateurs.
http://www.firegeezer.com/2009/09/28...decimal-point/ (http://www.firegeezer.com/2009/09/28/somebody-moved-the-decimal-point/)
Ulfhedinn
10-01-2009, 11:09
from their pictures they look like the 'reject society' types. they just chose the wrong society to reject.
Having long hair makes your an arsonist? I dont get the connection. You just have seen different photos.
Lone Wolf
10-01-2009, 11:11
Having long hair makes your an arsonist?
oh absolutely without a doubt
ShelterLeopard
10-01-2009, 12:41
Is this the thing in VT? I know that a shelter there was set on fire, and they definitely think it was arson, and they're trying to find any info on who might have done it. This isn't the same thing, right?
All structures on the AT should be torched.
Torch 'em with extreme prejudice and omit nothing, and I fully expect all the shelter-haters to support me.
They're hypocrites if they don't.
dreamsoftrails
10-01-2009, 14:04
Is this the thing in VT? I know that a shelter there was set on fire, and they definitely think it was arson, and they're trying to find any info on who might have done it. This isn't the same thing, right?
nope, its in NC.
Lone Wolf
10-01-2009, 14:07
All structures on the AT should be torched.
Torch 'em with extreme prejudice and omit nothing, and I fully expect all the shelter-haters to support me.
They're hypocrites if they don't.
uhh, BS. that would be felony arson. i ain't moronistic enuf to do that. i don't support you. i'm not a hypocrite
ShelterLeopard
10-01-2009, 14:07
Thanks- I often get all the names a bit mixed up.
ShelterLeopard
10-01-2009, 14:08
All structures on the AT should be torched.
Torch 'em with extreme prejudice and omit nothing, and I fully expect all the shelter-haters to support me.
They're hypocrites if they don't.
Why? I personally like shelters. If you don't like 'em, don't use 'em.
All structures on the AT should be torched.
Torch 'em with extreme prejudice and omit nothing, and I fully expect all the shelter-haters to support me.
They're hypocrites if they don't.
Just remember folks, take this statement with a large grain of salt. :) It is called sarcasm.
Graywolf
10-01-2009, 18:32
At least 300 miles or prison. Under supervision, of course.
These guys must had too much time on their hands, I agree Hiker33, Makem hike it, ALLL THE WAY.....
These guys really need a good !@#$%^&() qhippin
Felony arson my arse......
While we're busy torching, lets also melt all the leki poles into a giant glob of molten recyclable aluminum, and all the nalgenes into a massive pool of plastic.
Get with the program you hypocrite slackers.......