Shoe bombs design and manufacturing

[oneighty]

It just occurred to me that at one time I was a shoe repairman. I became a shoe repair man one Saturday morning while nursing a terrible hangover. I had stopped in the shoe repair shop to have a coffee with Mr. Guzzetta. I had known Mr. Guzzetta since I was a poor little boy with a hurting soul and flapping shoe soles. I stopped in his shop. He sewed the soles back on my shoes AND he put on new heels AND he shined my shoes. When I pushed my few coins across the counter he say; "You keep-a the money Eddie," Mr. Guzzetta became my friend for life.

So on that Saturday morning Mr. Guzzetta said; "I'm-a close-a the shop Eddie." Oh no. So I bought the shop. And Mr. Guzzetta he teach-a me to fix shoes. (My real job was as a research assistant at a nearby university.)

Also at one time I was a bomb disposal expert in the Navy.

So I wonder. How would I make a shoe bomb? Simple I think I would like after I got my cowboy boots on I would stuff them with 'Shimose'. Then I would use a non-electric blasting cap with a foot or so of black powder time fuze sticking out of the top of the boot. Nobody would ever notice this I am pretty sure. Nor would they catch this odor of the Shimose.

Ain't that Right Mr. Jim Guzzetta? My old friend.

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[Katherine Brengle]

1. hmmmm... the feds are on their way. lol. n/t

[JitterbugPerfume]

2. you gonna blow your feetsa off Eddie

What is Shimose?

[MindPilot]

3. I think it's like Shinola...

but easier to differentiate from shit.

[oneighty]

6. Shinola

Has an odor not unlike some explosives truth to tell. Tyleno/Tetrytol I think it is.

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[oneighty]

10. Headache Haha

should say toluene not tyleno.

Strong odor is toluene and common.

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[oneighty]

4. Shimose is WW2 Japanese explosive

Picric Acid. With age it liquefies into sort of a sludge.

In the EOD community Shimose became likened unto shit.

I feel a cowboy boot full of shit as being fitting to the shoe bomb/LA story.

That is all.

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[JitterbugPerfume]

7. hahahahahahaahaha

That answer is priceless!

[MindPilot]

9. Yep -- didn't know they piled that high!! eom

[meisje]

5. You're going to be tapped faster than last weeks kegger

[oneighty]

8. I hope not

I am just spreading poop. It is the American way.

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