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Teen Girls Blow Up House With Home Made Bomb, Kills a Man

dailymail.co.uk — A gang of teenage girls may have blown up a house with a home-made liquid bomb, which killed a man in a neighbouring property, after arguing with another girl about a love rival. Purple liquid was poured through the letterbox of the Victorian house before the an explosion destroyed three houses.

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  • blackgrape, on 05/11/2008, -3/+82I hate junk mail...
    • sanman, on 05/11/2008, -9/+3give em the chair
    • CarnivalOfDust, on 05/11/2008, -2/+13The Daily (Junk) Mail
    • hempydave, on 05/11/2008, -1/+1I laughed.
      Thanks
    • Tishiablo, on 05/11/2008, -0/+1Wait - are you referring to "Purple liquid was poured through the letterbox of the Victorian house before the an explosion destroyed three houses.", or are you referring to "dailymail.co.uk"?

      :)
  • aaaleman, on 05/11/2008, -2/+92"What we can say is that we are happy there is no link to any terrorist organisation or acts here."

    I'm not going to say anything about that. I just wanted to quote it. Because.
    • glock22ownr, on 05/11/2008, -16/+7Well not that I like them, however ... just because it wasn't Muslims that did this that doesn't mean it wasn't a terrorist act.( then again we don't know who the girls are yet ) It sure has all the aspects of one.
      • HAKdragon, on 05/11/2008, -1/+17Subtlety isn't your forte, is it?
    • Ethdawg, on 05/11/2008, -4/+6Terrorism is a strategy and a method, not an entity that these girls might have been a part of. Glock, go back to watchin' Fox News and laughin' at them Mus-lems that jest keep ona makin' bush angry.
    • rpgmaker, on 05/11/2008, -1/+7Terror is now defined by the Bush administration. We've come a long ***** way.
    • wubblie, on 05/11/2008, -9/+2This gel explosive is something that will be used by terrorists in the future. It is entirely possible that it was obtained from someone that is producing it and selling it to anyone, including terrorists. It is also possible that these girls were terrorists, who used the explosive in a crime of passion instead of terrorist strike- in the same way that someone who buys a gun to rob a stores may instead shoot someone he has an argument with, because the weapon is at hand. In any case, it is moronic to say that there is no link to terrorism at this stage.
      • Gir53457, on 05/11/2008, -0/+1I can make about ten different explosives right here and now by simply using various chemicals around my house.
  • minnymoo, on 05/11/2008, -2/+46FTA: "before the an explosion "
    come on now... -_-
    • Tyorant, on 05/11/2008, -0/+20And also: "Devastation: Three houses weer destroyed in the blast"
      The writer took a lot of care writing this article..
      • CarnivalOfDust, on 05/11/2008, -3/+1It's got so ridiculous, both in content and writing ability (or lack therof) that I'm starting to believe that the Daily Mail is intended to be satirical, like The Onion or something.
        We just never noticed :)
        • CarnivalOfDust, on 05/11/2008, -4/+1Meh, ***** Bury Brigade.
          • Solis, on 05/11/2008, -0/+1Make a stupid comment and it gets buried. Not so hard to understand, is it?
    • thirdman, on 05/11/2008, -0/+39It's the Daily Mail, attention to detail (or even the truth) isn't their strong point...
      • gh0st3000, on 05/11/2008, -1/+5It couldn't hurt to run spell check once.
    • tian2992, on 05/11/2008, -2/+1inb4: become an hero
  • sfacets, on 05/11/2008, -13/+3UK? Yup.
    • spawnfree, on 05/11/2008, -0/+2Yobs stabbing kids or stamping old men to death? sure.
      Girls cooking up some super powerful nitroglycerin concoction? come on now. This is mental.
  • DeskFlyer, on 05/11/2008, -9/+51Daily Mail.
    • sk11, on 05/11/2008, -5/+7Or the Daily pull-*****-out-of-our-arses-and-call-it-news.
    • snugsoho, on 05/11/2008, -2/+10The Daily Mail seem to get quite a few of their stories on the frontpage these days... for such utter ***** it seems to be popular utter *****.
      • arjie, on 05/11/2008, -0/+4It's sensational, dude, makes it popular. I saw the same story written in more conservative language on the BBC yesterday.
    • Shawn4168, on 05/11/2008, -3/+10Pointless Comment.
  • fusen, on 05/11/2008, -3/+77Don''t you just LOVE the dailymail?

    Title says "Gang of girls 'blew up house with home-made bomb over row about boy'"

    First line of the article says "A gang of teenage girls MAY have blown up a house with a home-made liquid bomb"

    Emphasis on MAY.
    • honeymustardn, on 05/11/2008, -1/+7All of their articles are written like that. I remember when police discovered Mark Speight's body (before it was officially identified), and Daily Mail pronounced him as dead in the headline, then in the article said the body MAY be his. ***** idiots.
    • Shawn4168, on 05/11/2008, -0/+2Ok, for one thing, they were quoting somebody in the headline of the article. You saw 'these' little things? Yeah, that indicates a quotation. And for another thing, when's the last time that you saw a headline like "Somebody might have blown up a house"? Come on, give me a break. That doesn't make for good journalism.
    • sporkmonger, on 05/11/2008, -0/+4Seriously, witnesses saw someone pouring a "purple, smelly liquid" into the letterbox? I'd like to know how the "witnesses" were close enough to observe the colour and note the smell of said liquid. I'm not discounting the possibility of foul play, but I'd be willing to bet that a "purple, smelly liquid" wasn't involved.
  • saxreturns, on 05/11/2008, -4/+22"Houses have exploded! Quick, let's use the power of conjecture and imagination to try to make it into a story about how the fabric of society is ripping apart at the seams and young people are running wild and feral in the streets causing chaos!"

    'Houses have exploded', could, of course, be replaced with a phrase describing pretty much any event. This is the way of the Mail.
  • Quentusrex, on 05/11/2008, -0/+29What purple smelly liquid explosive recipes are there? I remember the napalm, and the tnt for at home recipes, but not a 'purple smelly liquid'. Unless it was a sulfer stink bomb.
    • n0gnuz, on 05/11/2008, -0/+271 gallon gasoline
      1 packet grape Kool-Aid
      Mix well
      • mxmj, on 05/12/2008, -0/+1If you can make one gallon of gasoline blow up three houses, the Defense Department's R & D team probably wants to talk to you.
    • TonyLocNE, on 05/11/2008, -1/+2meh? I'm sure there was something that the evil Jolly Roger's Cookbook had in it.. Of course though, they got the recipe off the internet. What's that you say? More restrictions on internet content? Sure, why not.....
      Can you still even get the JRC on the internet? I'm going to look into that.. Its been so long.
    • robodud3, on 05/11/2008, -2/+5Chances are its a massive amount of Nitrogen Triiodiod [NI3], I know its not a liquid but it was what came to my mind first and thinking that they demonstrate this in high school all the time it makes a likely candidate. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrogen_triiodide
      • WayOfTheIronPaw, on 05/11/2008, -0/+1It's the first I've heard of NI3, and you may be right. BUT, the Wikipedia article describes it as a very unstable compound that can explode at the touch of a feather, or an air current. If that is so, how did the girls pour it through the letter opening without obliterating themselves?
      • nullity, on 05/11/2008, -0/+5Why are people digging this down?
        Nitrogen Triiodiod is a purple paste that becomes a contact explosive when it dries.
        While I doubt the explosion would be energetic enough to demolish a house, if there was a gas leak it could have triggered a larger explosion.
    • Timmmm, on 05/11/2008, -1/+1One of the article comments suggested meths.

      PLEASE no more Daily Mail stories!
    • scamerica, on 05/11/2008, -0/+5Probably a mixture of makeup, perfume, bubble bath, nail polish etc..
    • xlneoMAXlx, on 05/11/2008, -2/+1sulfur*
  • RetepNamenots, on 05/11/2008, -8/+14Buried for Daily Mail.
  • Wade, on 05/11/2008, -1/+2Honestly, as bad as it is, it's pretty amazing (considering...). I don't wish to detract from the seriousness of it though.
  • DLuckyE, on 05/11/2008, -1/+13Guess they don't even outsource terrorism anymore, what's the world coming to. Before you know it the terrorists are out of their jobs, sitting in a cave with nothing better to do.
  • hmunkey, on 05/11/2008, -1/+9Bitches...
  • Micgee, on 05/11/2008, -0/+11It would seem the Teen Girl Squad have taken a turn for the worse.
  • Codylan, on 05/11/2008, -1/+5Don't ever piss off Lindsey Lohan!
  • phrstbrn, on 05/11/2008, -2/+8Talk about girls gone wild!
  • rushiku, on 05/11/2008, -0/+20I guess more CCTV cameras are in order.
  • 3leggedHorse, on 05/11/2008, -0/+12Three houses WEER destroyed in the blast.
    • sagat, on 05/11/2008, -0/+7Shows the standard of editing at this toilet paper, I'm pretty sure the proof reader at the Daily Mail is the same bloke who makes the tea and repairs the plumbing.
  • JagoRayken, on 05/11/2008, -2/+9I dont know how this is possible, how purple smelly goo could explode a house from the mailbox. the only thing i can think of is that either this is a conspiracy or that the explosion hit the gas line outside of the house and caused some kind of secondary explosion.
    Also i dont think nitroglycerine is purple, does anyone know of a purple exploding substance that has that kind of blasting power?
    • Scorps111, on 05/11/2008, -0/+8there is a highly friction sensitive explosive u can make with iodine, is purple in liquid form, then you must pour threw a coffee filter, this must dry and crystals form, when someone touches or blows heavily on the substance a chain reaction occurs resulting in a mild explosion, but as i state, once crystals have formed, CANNOT be moved without explosion, 2: Takes long time for crystals to form, 3: Must be filtered to work, 4: NO where near powerful enough to blow up 3 houses.
    • liquidpele, on 05/11/2008, -6/+4Their mail slit in in the door of the house. The postal guys just put the mail though so it's on the floor when you walk in.
      Did you see any mailboxes in the picture? Try out this critical thinking hat *puts hat on you*.
    • ameba, on 05/11/2008, -0/+2its not a mail box, its a mail slit on the door
  • stealthc, on 05/11/2008, -1/+4Just one more profile to add to the TSA screening list. Teenage girls beware!
  • phenom2k7, on 05/11/2008, -3/+10I reckon it's utter bollocks. Probably an insurance job.
    • MKrick, on 05/11/2008, -0/+4An insurance job? Who blows up their own home while still inside it?
      • hempydave, on 05/11/2008, -2/+1Your wife.
        and yes this smell really fishy.
    • popfrogs, on 05/11/2008, -0/+1It's from the Daily Mail, what did anyone expect?
  • MacDevyn, on 05/11/2008, -3/+2they will find a way to blame video games...
    • CarnivalOfDust, on 05/11/2008, -1/+9From tomorrow's follow-up:
      "One of the girls was found to have played Nintendogs just 4 months before the deadly blast. Nintendogs is a game where the player may choose to neglect their dog so much that it runs away, and has been described by some as a 'cruelty simulator'."
  • sonnybobiche, on 05/11/2008, -0/+11"a bit of the ole'... ultraviolence."
    • roboticrickshaw, on 05/11/2008, -1/+3wouldnt mind some nice milk after that
    • W00K13, on 05/12/2008, -0/+2nice, thanks for the chuckle.
  • mobling, on 05/11/2008, -3/+5Send the girls to the US where they can be tried as terrorists. Let's see how bad they are after four or five years in gitmo.
    • kelly, on 05/11/2008, -3/+3I went into this thread to find out how many posts it would take before someone, somehow would try to make the United States look bad as a result. Liberal digg is so lame sometimes.
      • mobling, on 05/13/2008, -0/+0Well kelly, if you ventured into this thread looking for conservative ammo, you barked up the wrong tree. My point was and is that if these girls were as bad a depicted, then society needs to find a fitting punishment for their crimes. A conservative ideal if I ever heard one. Don't troll the forums looking for each and every comment to twist and bend to your ***** twisted mentality. As fas as the US looking bad. Well I also served in Gitmo and I can assure you, the US is doing a fine job making themselves look bad without any help from me. May you can troll the kiddie porn forums and find something better suited to your comments. A PISSED OFF VET.
  • scamerica, on 05/11/2008, -1/+8I've dugg this... but MAY have burried it also
  • Enfecktion, on 05/11/2008, -0/+18does anyone else read the daily mail in outrageous English accents?

    you should, it's fun.
    • mbauer14, on 05/11/2008, -3/+8you silly english pigdogs.
      • popfrogs, on 05/11/2008, -1/+2+1 for a Monty Python reference...I guess nobody else got it.
        • mbauer14, on 05/11/2008, -0/+1go away or i shall taunt you a second tima.
  • CarnivalOfDust, on 05/11/2008, -1/+19Jesus, I only just took a closer look at the picture - if a bunch of teenage girls knew enough Chemistry to be able to make a bomb that powerful from a bit of liquid poured through a mailbox, then at least we know science is on the way back up! Yay!
    • ForwardSlash, on 05/11/2008, -6/+2Oh, right. Teenage girls must have learned it at school, since they would never have the initiative to pick a book up on their own.

      Buried for stupid.
      • tylerni7, on 05/11/2008, -0/+4Where does he say anything about them learning it at school? Perhaps you should re-read his comment, and then reconsider your response.
  • ameba, on 05/11/2008, -13/+3Only in America...
    • Serpentine1618, on 05/11/2008, -0/+7It's not in America...
    • SirBrittanicus, on 05/11/2008, -2/+2I'm gonna type this out slow, for more emphasis...

      YOU SUCK!
  • DCGaymer, on 05/11/2008, -2/+12WOOHOO. Violence that WASN'T in the States.
    • kelly, on 05/11/2008, -5/+3I went into this thread to find out how many posts it would take before someone, somehow would try to make the United States look bad as a result. Liberal digg is so lame sometimes.
  • drethedog, on 05/11/2008, -2/+3That is what Mcgiver's daughter does for fun nowadays???
  • Jalh, on 05/11/2008, -1/+2damn , that was home-made and the destruction is huge ...
  • SirBrittanicus, on 05/11/2008, -4/+7PURPLE DRAAAAAANK!
  • Zoshchenko, on 05/11/2008, -1/+2I suspect Sarah Conner was somehow involved. Pretty hard core! And I love the way the authorities managed to blame the Internet.
  • mrzeero, on 05/11/2008, -0/+7I call shenanigans.
  • geddon, on 05/11/2008, -2/+2Those girls need to focus their energy on something more productive.. like blowing up oil refineries and/or gas stations.
  • robodud3, on 05/11/2008, -2/+3In a REALLY WIERD way crafty badass chix like this turn me on.
  • YoctoYotta, on 05/11/2008, -0/+9A gem from the article's comments:
    "It would seem we should take great care when it comes to what sort of young ladies we should permit our sons to consort with.
    - M Young, London"

  • xlneoMAXlx, on 05/11/2008, -14/+4$20 says they were black and their names were laquintfwah, shaniqua, and takmeerkrotalafweesholeetna

    ***** *****
    • popfrogs, on 05/11/2008, -3/+4Silly racist, everyone knows black people don't know chemistry.
  • tehbored, on 05/11/2008, -0/+10All I saw when I clicked the link was a huge steaming pile of *****. Mysterious purple liquid? That wreckage doesn't even have any scorch marks or anything. What rubbish.
    • Cogboy, on 05/12/2008, -0/+2While i agree alot of the claims in this article are dubious, most explosion damage is from caused by the shockwave rather than any fireball scorching.
      • tehbored, on 05/12/2008, -0/+2Yes, but it said in the article that a girls had severe burns. How did she get burned but all those flammable materials remain untouched?
        • mxmj, on 05/12/2008, -0/+1She was probably very close to the explosion and got flash burns. The explosion would have been very hot but for only a split second.
      • WonderFoo, on 05/12/2008, -0/+1She was enjoying some very hot soup when the house exploded.
  • ShutItDown, on 05/11/2008, -5/+3Wheres your God now?
    • YoctoYotta, on 05/11/2008, -0/+5At the blackjack table, down $127. Why?
  • Strife67, on 05/11/2008, -3/+1buried as spam
  • hempydave, on 05/11/2008, -0/+3Agreed
    some thing is not right with this story.
    There is way too much damage for a vapor explosion , unless your houses are built from tooth picks.
    • IronDonut, on 05/11/2008, -1/+0No way. I saw the results of a gasoline vapor explosion in a house. It was reduced to tiny bits. I would have never guessed gasoline would explode with that much force until I saw the aftermath.
  • GrmRpr3000, on 05/11/2008, -0/+4I live very near to where this happened, and heard it when it went off. Everyone here assumed it was a gas explosion, and to be honest I'm still convinced it is. The purple smelly liquid could very well have just been a drink of some kind (I can't remember exactly what kind of drink it is, but there is one with similar characteristics), which certainly wouldn't surprise me coming from a bunch of what could very well have been chav girls. Everyone knows that chavs love to go around with alcohol in hand.

    However, it could also very well have been a deliberate attack, as violence amongst young people in this country, especially near London (Harrow is a London Borough) has been going up. If it is this, it would be the first I've heard of a bunch of useless chavs using explosives to do the job. And hopefully the last.
  • mKdiR, on 05/11/2008, -0/+1grape drink
  • t4m5t3r, on 05/11/2008, -0/+4liquid explosive? or explosive liquid? OK, but how did they detonate it then?, they poured it through the door, then what? if they lit it, they would have been blown up also, seems a bit of a strech to think a couple of teenage girls build some kind of remote detonator (although for this ***** to be slightly beleiveable there would have to be some kind of delay, between lighting and BOOM as none of the "bombers" got injured)

    "The purple smelly liquid could very well have just been a drink of some kind (I can't remember exactly what kind of drink it is, but there is one with similar characteristics), which certainly wouldn't surprise me coming from a bunch of what could very well have been chav girls. "

    yep seems more likely, as your also british your also aware of how clever your average "chav" is, so a couple of girls making "liquid explosive" is VERY unlikely, Im gonna say Gas explosion, since a few years ago a gas explosion killed a whole family in larkhall, turned out to be poorly maintaned gas lines, they got fined about 10 million+ and since the energy companies pretty much rule the world now, its seems possible they could easily create this kinda *****, they dont get fined, and the govt can justify their stupid ban on liquids and probably use it to ban more stuff aswell, its win, win (and of course, loose for us!)
    • Matazuma, on 05/12/2008, -0/+1there is no way these girls could have made an explosive this powerful whit out hurting them selfs
  • nonrate, on 05/11/2008, -1/+2Look how wonderful the UK police state is working! All those cameras and government intrusion has really toned down the ferocity of the crimes being committed.
  • Napalmhaze, on 05/11/2008, -0/+1Daily Mail sensationalism! Purple liquid makes me immediately think of methylated spirits. I cant see how any liquid in any quantity a bunch of teenage girls could pour in through a letterbox could cause this kind of destruction by itself. It seems highly more likely that they poured meths thru the letterbox, chucked a match in to follow it and the resulting fire caused the explosion of a gas pipe or something. While that makes for a shocking story it doesnt quite reach the spectaular sensationalism that the Daily Mail would rather report! Does anyone ever believe a word that old hack rag ever reports?
  • Codename46, on 05/11/2008, -2/+1So in addition to all guns, the UK should now ban home-made bombs too!

    oh wai-
  • spongya77, on 05/11/2008, -1/+0So no tablecloth on the head =/= terrorist.
    (I wonder when they will profile teenage girls at the airports. "Panic at the airport. Passengers refuse to fly with two sixteen year old girls on board."
  • IronDonut, on 05/11/2008, -0/+1Back when I was a youth someone blew up a house using 5 gallons of gasoline in the basement. When the vapor mixed in the right proportions with oxygen and found an ignition source the whole place went up. It was literally blown to bits. Pretty amazing actually.
  • Danoz, on 05/11/2008, -0/+4To me it looks as though the blast came from inside the houses, not from the mailbox outside the house. Also, i doubt teenage girls could make a liquid explosive powerful enough to blow up a house. I'm calling gas leakage even thought the article says otherwise.
    • bossywalker, on 05/12/2008, -0/+2They poured it through the mail slot in the door, not into a external mailbox.
    • binutils, on 05/13/2008, -0/+1I'm guessing it isn't all that hard. Lookup AMMONIUM TRIIODIDE...
      From the article, it sounds like it could fit. Vaporizing meaning crystals forming all over the house. Just a guess.
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