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In reply to the discussion: Note to Bomber: You don't need a $6.00 Wal-Mart clock on a mail bomb [View all]Takket
(21,529 posts)first i was wondering how we got so lucky that NONE of them detonated.... then when i looked at the clock i thought "How can you know the precise time when it would be opened by the recipient?"
knowing now that the clock didn't even have an alarm function, it clearly served no purpose, at least as far as being used as a detonator.
This seems to me to be a very deliberate attempt to terrorize people for sure, but not necessarily kill (note that i'm not saying that the sender is innocent of attempted murder. maybe he/she didn't want the bomb to explode but they DID send explosive material through the mail which still could have killed people if it had been set off somehow accidentally. The terrorist SHOULD be charged with a count of some sort of negligence putting life at risk for EACH package and NEVER see the light of day again).
Even if you were just a shitty bomb maker you wouldn't attach a part that doesn't actually do anything.