THE BEST DEFENSE (Part 356) — by Steve Nadis
We’ve heard the junk food defense, the Twinkie defense, and now we get the … chemistry defense? Of course I’m referring to the case of the man from East Bridgewater (a town somewhere in the vicinity of Boston though as to where it is I have no clue) charged with storing an inordinant amount of ordinance–39 pipe bombs–in his garage. And what did his lawyer have to say about this? The man, the lawyer maintains, has had a long-time interest in chemistry and has been harmlessly building explosives since high school (this according to the Boston Globe. To which I reply: What’s wrong with stamp collecting?) “He just makes bombs, that’s all,” claims the lawyer John Creedon. “He is interested in chemistry… He never, ever set one off.”
Well I guess you can’t begrudge a man his hobby. And if I were the man’s next-door neighbor, the reassuring words of his attorney would be enough to set me at ease.
Posted by
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03:54:50
I would suggest you let Mr Creedon know his client is a very lucky man indeed. I have a summer-camp friend who lost his hand to an “interest in chemistry”.
If these pipes were “loaded”, a typical garage is not enough to “protect” neighbors’ kids.
If you have to build one (as I have), blow it up in the middle of nowhere &… “get over it”.
-Marco[Ex-Unibomber]Polo