A missile is an object which is forcibly propelled at a target, either by hand or from a mechanical weapon.

So litteraly an air to ground bomb

I mean for someone so concerned over the exact meaning of words... you should probably know it's a venn diagram...

It wasn't that either. It was a satchel charge dropped from a helicopter.

Because The two things that happened are completely equivalent in atrocity, making the point of distinction one of semantics rather than moral importance

in idiot, since I'm assuming you can't read:

hurr man not hit TO DEATH with ROCK, man hit TO DEATH with STICK! FAKE NEWS, STICK NOT ROCK!!

seriously though, think before you post

Yeah they kept harking back to "imagine if it had gone off on the road!?!?!" But like guys how do you think that shit got there to begin with it just materialized?? It wouldn't go off on the road unless they idk set it off... even then had they bothered to do literally any kind of measurements of weight at all... they would have known it was too much... almost double the maximum capacity... that is straight negligence.

LAPD needs to just take the L on this one, move on and learn from their mistake.

Absolutely unbelievable they are trying to play this off like they didn't fuck up here. Like I get it to some extent but holy shit sometimes you fuck up and you just gotta own it.

General precaution against introducing water onto explosives comprised of unknown compounds.

I feel sorry for the people in the neighborhood, but it was so satisfying seeing them shred their big fancy rig through their own arrogance and incompetence.

That was the entire cache, not what they detonated.

As a layman, what would have happened if they'd soaked those devices in water, and driven them out to the desert for later burning?

ATF forever the most 'tarded agency.

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Because EVERY motherfucker in this country knows that a bomb is something you drop and a missile is something that is self-propelled. I don’t give a good goddamn if one is within the vent diagram of the other - you’re the one engaged in a stupid pedantic argument.

So, kindly go piss up a rope.

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Oh get stuffed. Idiot.

The truck was.

To be fair, I think everyone within a dozen miles felt that one in their bones.

Yeah but why consult experts when you have a totally sweet bomb disposal truck? Dale said it looks like it can handle it, so we’re all good.

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It's like coming in to argue that a german shepard isn't a dog anymore once he attains german shepard status.

I'm not the one being obtuse.

Either the word "bomb" means a superset group that includes a subgroup set called "missiles", or it's not. I didn't start this pedantic thread with a snarky comment about the idea of a bomb going skyward pretending missiles aren't bombs for no reason.

Have some respect, the Top Men of the LAPD put in alot of effort to incorrectly utilize their multimillion dollar taxpayer funded EOD vehicle and then call in every news agency in town before they blew that neighborhood up

The LAPD is an incompetent, taxpayer funded gang, what’s new?

There is a feedback cycle between news and police; the police provide a statement on things that the news accepts uncritically, both because it's less resources than doing actual journalism on every story and because, in exchange for portraying police sympathetically, journalists get more access to information from them. Granted, most of this info is just more PR stuff.

This is a fun little legal maneuver. Equivalent to confiscating gasoline sold without a permit, pouring it on a building, and then charging the bootleg gas station for damages done when the building catches fire

This is incorrect. First of all, the force from the fireworks is not measured in pounds; even if you're talking about the shock wave, the peak force from that at a given point would be measured in psi (pressure), and would vary wildly depending on where you measured it