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Originally Posted by dar512
Understand, Mari, that I hold you in the highest regard when I say, "Are you nuts!!!???" This is like a poster-child example of making a bad decision. The concept is to think about the possible repercussions of your actions and the possible benefits before taking said action. In this case, you are risking your life and the life of your dog (and maybe the neighbors?) for the sake of being the first (well, second) on your block to have a stick of dynamite.
That's not to mention that the police tend to get all upset over private citizens having bombs in their homes.
Mari - you seem like a nice person. But this was a really really bad decision.
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Dar, I gotta agree with you. I acted on impulse. Also, I had no idea that the stuff actually could still be dangerous. Its very old and must have been laying around in that shed for years. I actually took it as a sort of joke to have around. Thank you all for letting me know that my "joke" could actually be a lethal one!
Upon due reflection, I am going to go back and carefully replace that stick where I found it with the other 3, and call the police to inform them that I chanced across 4 sticks of dynamite while taking a short cut across the old guy's yard. If I happened across them, someone else is bound to. I've already seen signs that some homeless person is sleeping in one of the old rusty cars that is part of the general junk collection over there.
The next person who chances into that shed may know something about explosives and have more sinisters ideas than I, and even if its just a ground squirrel that happens to ignite the stuff, the resulting exposion could send debris flying that would probably go pretty far and possibly hurt not just me, but any of the neighbors around here.
LJ, shouldn't you be watching one of your sales staff bang a customer's wife in the men's room?
