Fun With Explosives: Our First Edition
I guess the Fun With Guns guys have stepped up their conquests.
Michael O’Neill is a 45 year old former New York corrections officer. He is also a white supremacist and …
Pictures of the KKK, Nazi imagery and the Confederate flag were found inside his home …
He built seven bombs at the home his stepfather, and all was going well until one of the bombs did what bombs are designed to do and blew off his damn leg.
Oh hell yeah.
The explosives he created contained nails and BB pellets, according to reports. One was labeled “powder with nails.”
His attorney said O’Neill was just planning to blow up some tree stumps.
Yeah, shrapnel works really good on tree stumps.
Thanks to everybody for the heads up.
The box it all came in was labelled “ACME” right? He should team up with that coyote. Beep. Beep.
1Yay for karma.
2He’s 45 and still living with his stepfather. That, right there is your first clue that something is amiss. Thank goodness it was his limb blown off, not some poor defenseless “tree”.
3I’m also not keen on the idea of a white supremacist being a former New York corrections officer, except for the “former” part.
Wonder if he’s got Obamacare.
4If he intended to bomb trees with shrapnel,he must have figured there would be tree huggers hanging on.That would be illegal as well.
5The stupid. It’s rubbing off on his lawyer.
“Blow up some tree stumps.”
Yeah. That’s the best he could come up with.
Or maybe I’m being too hard on the lawyer. Maybe that’s just what this doofus told him and he had to go out there and try to sell it. Cringing all the way.
6Would-be bomber stumped.
7About that blowing up stumps defense…
8apparently making the stump was step # 1?
Nice catch Maggie! How bout these homegrown terrorist wannabes of ours? They’re springing up everywhere, kinda like nut sedge!
9Only a citified lawyer would believe the blowing up stumps defense. A country girl or boy would know better.
10One of my dad’s buds was an ordnance disposal specialist for Dallas County Sheriff in the 60s and 70s. When people asked if he was a bomb expert he’d say “No, to be a bomb expert you had to have had one go off while you were handling it. But his partner, Three Finger Pete, now he was a bomb expert.” So not only is he “Michael O’Neill” “45 year old former New York corrections officer.” In Dallas County, he’s a bomb expert. Let’s hear it for Mike!
11So, instead of getting rid of tree stumps he has acquired a leg stump. Sounds fair to me. It does not say how far up the leg injury extended, so I’m not sure this guy qualifies for a Darwin Award.
12I’m glad they figured out that even missing a leg he’s too dangerous to be loose around noncrazy people. I’d be keeping an eye on that father, too. He at least tolerated the Nazy/Confederate/white supremacy stuff in the house.
13Gotta love poetic justice. O’Neill’s new nickname? Stumpy.
14Too bad the damage wasn’t just a bit higher.
15Since he’s still living with his stepfather, no mention of a wife or girlfriend (yet), he may have already taken himself out of the gene pool. And as he’s now a monoped, almost any woman can outrun him, because I don’t see him getting one of those racing prostheses or fast wheelchairs in prison.
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