Oh, the police panic was justified -- in neither recent case was the original collector around, to say whether the grenades were disarmed. And some explosives become much more unstable with age.
It's just a different age. People take fewer risks. You can't buy sulfur, saltpeter, and powdered charcoal at the local drugstore . . .
(Or ammonium nitrate fertilizer at the local hardware or garden store, either.)
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Date: 2008-12-14 04:55 pm (UTC)It's just a different age. People take fewer risks. You can't buy sulfur, saltpeter, and powdered charcoal at the local drugstore . . .
(Or ammonium nitrate fertilizer at the local hardware or garden store, either.)