Police: Teen arrested after housekeeper finds explosive device in room
 

Joshua Prater, 18, was arrested after a housekeeper found a suspicious device while cleaning Prater's room, police say.

The woman reportedly brought the device to the Tempe (Arizona) Fire Department, which called the city's bomb squad to examine it. The device turned out to be an active improvised explosive device (IED), azfamily.com reports.

"They had it X-rayed, they saw it was a valid IED," Tempe Police Sgt. Mike Pooley said, according to MyFoxPhoenix.com. "It was something that wasn't big, but could cause serious injuries and the death of someone."

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The woman reportedly brought the device to the Tempe (Arizona) Fire Department,


stupid cunt

Prescription drug?

These pansies wouldn't know what to think living by me as a kid. It was like a fucking warzone in my backyard blowing up toys with m80's.n The GI Joes never had a chance.

i heard achmed had some of these last week

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poor kid. everything worth doing as a boy is pretty much illegal now.

yep we built things i wont say what and use them later. :1orglaugh cherry bo*bs and all

It's a good thing the the world wasn't terrorist crazy when I was a kid.. I used to dismantle fireworks and build my own bigger ones and blow them up out in the woods with friends.

noooooo shit.

You just described every kid that lives outside of a city. City people would shit if they saw the things country kids do.

Did you add projectiles to them as well?

I use to build models around explosives so when I got bored I could blow them up.

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We used to build Estes rockets and make our own fireworks.

Toy Story had the kid in it who would be a terrorist now wouldn't he? Were those the old days? lol

I'm not sure if I'm comfortable with this without knowing his intentions. Just because people can build an explosive and even make one, doesn't mean they have any intent on using it. Some people are just curious to see what they can build. I was one of those kids. Had the internet existed when I was in that stage of my life, there is a good chance I would have tried to make an explosive for no other reason than to blow up our mailbox or pumpkin with it, and there shouldn't be a law against either if it is your own property.

Boys will be boys. It is the intent that matters.

Nothing like pouring a few model rocket engines worth of fuel into a coffee can and lighting it with a spray paint can blowtorch!

same here. It's part of the joys of being a kid.

my favorite was the time we made napalm out of gasoline and an old surfboard and set a porta potty on fire.

Nothing in the article said it had projectiles in it. The article said he built it a few years ago and didn't even know it still had gun power in it.

:2 cents:

I bet you made spud guns too and shot potatoes at near bullet speed at random objects. Who didn't? These days you could be arrested just for buying the materials to build it.

It must suck being a kid now.

Me too, buddies old man also use to bring us the ingredients for black powder so we could have fun blowing small stuff up, lucky I still have my fingers.

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discovered 'outhouses' are wayyy better for that

Can't even buy things like bangers and air bombs or the little rockets we used to snap the sticks off before throwing at each other any more. Must be boring being 11 now.

aint that the fuckin truth. guns, bombs, firebombs, booby traps, hunting, fishing, trapping, drinking, smoking, pills, girls, souped up cars on country roads, bikes, trucks, we had the fucking life.

Likewise, as some of you have already mentioned, half of the shit I used to do a kid would probably earn me the label 'terrorist' today too, half of the fun of growing up in the country was being able to blow shit up in some way, shape or form.

It sucks kids today will never know what it feels like to fill a tube with black powder, throw a makeshift 'fuse' into it, clog the end with a potato or D size battery, light it and run like the wind...

A friend of mine one time poured five gallons of gas down a water well - yeah, and old school water well - and then threw a lit match down it. He had no fucking hair on his body for the next year.

Yeah had a few of those too. My mom is always reminding me and everyone else of the time I lit up the curtains because the label said non-flammable. Boy was that label wrong. lol

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i do remember a few experiments with explosives in my youth - i got even caught once by the police... My parents were not amused.

i became more careful when a dude from my school blew his hand off by building a bomb from a 1 liter glass coke bottle