Feds Find Cache of Fireworks Dumped in Boston Suburb

[alsame]

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/feds-find-cache-fireworks-dumped-boston-suburb/story?id=19038313#.UXksUcrm8ug

Overnight, federal agents and police discovered what could be fresh evidence of how the men believed responsible for the twin detonations at the Boston Marathon finish line constructed their bombs.

Agents uncovered a stash of firework shells, some of which appeared to have been emptied of their gunpowder. The cache was discovered in a used clothing collection bin in a grocery store parking lot in Watertown.

A driver for the organization first spotted the fireworks when he opened the bin. There were about half a dozen Roman candle shells in a plastic grocery bag and Tambosi said it looked like some of them had been scooped out.

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Officials will be examining the fireworks to see if the hollowed-out shells match those that Tamerlan Tsarnaev is believed to have purchased from a vendor in New Hampshire, or bear any resemblance to the pyrotechnic device that agents said was discovered in Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's college dorm room. Explosives experts said the powder from the fireworks can serve as a potent ingredient in homemade devices similar to those that exploded along Boylston Street, killing three and wounding more than 250 marathon spectators.

[seabeyond]

1. what? they thought it a trash bin? geez. nt

[Fumesucker]

2. Who is going to play this pair in the movie?

A used clothing bin?

[alsame]

3. The only thing I can think of is that

maybe they thought it would be emptied less often than a trash bin and wouldn't be found as quickly

[Yo_Mama]

5. It's much less conspicuous

Nobody would think anything of a car driving up to a used clothing bin and dumping a few bags in.

However dumpsters and so forth are privately used, so you can get in trouble for throwing bags in there. Some even have cameras.

Also trash is normally picked up at least once a week.

This pair just reeks of human kindness.

[TheMadMonk]

4. And you can buy smokeless powder in multi-kilogram cans to reload spent shells.

Anyone sufficiently determined to make a bomb will find a way to source an explosive of some kind.

People like these two, aren't really trackable. And except by accident, are very nearly impossible to thwart.

The real trick is to prevent the conditions which gives rise to "Tamerlans" with idolising little brothers in the first place.