A couple of K3wls set off a "80/\/\8" inside a Florida McDonalds over a bad milkshake:
STORY HERE (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040920/ap_on_fe_st/mcdonald_s_bomb&e=5)

They're so OLD too, and even in the military! What a shame... :rolleyes:

This is funny: "The toilet bowl cleaner has an acid base," Taylor said. "It can burn your skin and put your eyes out."
What is an "acid base"!? :D

Journalists...the same kind everywhere, it seems.

What is an "acid base"!? :D
The whole thing is based on acid. Like Grateful Dead.

These people are fools. They got caught because of the security camera, besides the bomb being something they probably learned from science class in the 8th grade. How stupid do they train humans these days?

I know where these dudes are coming from. I damn near burnt an MaccyD down when they stopped selling supersize fries :mad:

That's funny :->

They were kewl, but it's neat that they can improvise a 60/\/\b on such short notice.

Let us not confuse this device as a "bomb" as that is just a hate word designed to incense the sheep. The "destructive device" had all the power of a balloon being popped, which it essentially was. The only real danger was from the chemicals, which could have sprayed around in a short radius. Naturally everyone hears the word BOMB and assumes the worst. It is too bad there is not another suitable word to use for devices of this nature without having to resort to bomb and all it connotates.

It is too bad there is not another suitable word to use for devices of this nature

How about candy-ass noise maker?

"some irate customers set off a candy-ass noise maker in McDonalds today" Ya, that sounds better.

I'm guessing that acid-base = salt. Yep, they could have seriously injured a restaurant full of people w/salt water! If only the media wasn't so incredubly stupid.

"Tea-room Salute" comes to mind from an old book.

Well, as I have stated before, the device used in this incident could indeed be considered a bomb. [definition#2] bomb: 2 : a vessel for compressed gases[/definition#2] It's rather disturbing that these men are going to be charged as if this had been a truely dangerous I.E.D. I've had friends that were cought making Macbombs, and they only recieved a warning from the L.E.O. that cought them. It seems these guys might just end up doing a few years in prison, if they are lucky. It's kind of sad that they are looking at doing that kind of time when drunk drivers and rapists do less time then that and those kinds of criminals actually hurt people. I have to say, I feel sorry for them even if they are some of the most intellectually challenged kwels ever to be mentioned on these forums. (I'm sure they aren't but they probably come in a close 2nd.)

That reminds me - today (1 October) is Communist Chinese National Day, the 55th anniversary of the establishment in 1949 of the Communist government in Beijing (Peking), mainland China, as the result of "power growing out of the barrell of a [Soviet Union-supplied] gun" as Mao Tse-Tung put it. (I think it is also the 54th anniversary of their annexation of Hainan Island in 1950, and the 53rd anniversary of the annexation of Tibet in 1951). I wonder (for all the tea in China) what they will let off to celebrate it?

The noise maker would have better if they had been able to ignite the hydrogen gas generated in the reaction between the Al foil and the acid.

But that requires creativity far beyond the capactiy of a kewl.