I thought these carriers were basically a funnel that directed blasts straight up. But they mention “close the hatch;” I wonder if they amplified the destruction by using the giant pressure vessel they created.

Nobody asked “25 pounds of what?”

25 pounds of black powder is different from 25 pounds of TNT which itself pales in comparison to C4. These jackasses glanced at some box labels, figured everything was as powder-dense as ladyfingers and ALSO went way over design capacity for THAT assumption; idiot arrogance likely causing some senior nitwit to assume “these things are always over-designed because they think we’re idiots- let’s prove what this baby can really handle.”

I'm fairly certain that's what all of these vehicles are designed for. There's no reason to blast something in a closed vessel on-site if we know it can be safely transported

Mother fucking bootleg fireworks

As someone who's blown a charge with a net explosive weight of around 20lbs.... yeah that definitely was not 2.5 tons, 45lbs sounds completely right. The OKC bombing was a little over 2.5 tons, and that literally evaporated half a building.

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It was designed to handle up to about 25 pounds of explosives according to the doc. They put 45 pounds in it and it did not contain the explosion.

That was only 45 pounds according to the news reports in the doc. 2.5 tons would have been a little bit bigger...

Only a city block? Back in my day, the US government came in and shot up and set fire to colonies, women and children included, just because they wanted to "get paid" and "work only eight hours a day". Entitled kids that want to go and buy from whatever store they want, what's so bad about the company store? ^^/s

It seems to me that the vehicle was not designed for purposeful detonation but just for safely transporting a dangerous device away from a populated area.

Woah that’s crazy! I only remember when they firebombed an entire city block, oh and shot the children running out.

Good news is it's posted here about 8 times a day, so there's always a reminder close by.

Looks like it’s still not resolved:

https://www.turnto23.com/news/state/aftermath-of-illegal-firework-explosion-in-los-angeles?_amp=true

The two-party system? Taxes? The prison system?

We do not live close to this - at all - and a bunch of neighbors came outside thinking it might have been an earthquake.

Yeah let’s not only create but detonate an ied in a suburban neighborhood

Remember the time the US government shot a missile at a residential block?

They blew up 2.5 tons of fireworks in a neighborhood... After taking their sweet time loading it unsafely, playing with their toy robot when they wanted to, then injured a bunch of people and traumatized many more AND tried to get the dude slanging fireworks ("with a street value of $200,000") to cover the cost of damage they caused...

Sounds about right.

Aww lawd je zuzz aww nooo reekus lawd Jesus ...

That was awesome!

Didnt they charge the owner of the fireworks a ton of money for the destruction of property i.e. the bomb disposal truck?

Never did hear the result, Im sure the lawyers had something to say about shelf stable fireworks being detonated all at once in a confined space creating a bomb.

Is there anything LAPD doesn’t screw up or ruin ?

That shit was nuts. I was like 2 miles away and felt it in my chest.

Jimmy Carter, at it again!

Right out of the James Carter playbook

Were the fireworks black?

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