Re: Remembering the difference between AM and PM
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Muppet blotter
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Date: October 19, 2014 08:21PM
Could be worse, you could be the IRA's most stupid bomber (quite an accolade amongst that particular group of muppets, thugs and murderers)
Its just a shame the terrorist bastard died so quickly
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'Security souces, meanwhile, revealed that O'Brien may have triggered that bomb, 2lbs of Semtex, in his lap because he operated a 24-hour video timer incorrectly. They think the terrorist may have tried to prime the device minutes before he was due to alight outside the presumed target of the Law Courts in Fleet Street. The timers from commercial videos are a ready source of triggers for accurate, delayed-action explosions. They are based on 24-hour clocks which can be set up to three weeks in advance. It appears the bomber may have primed the weapon to explode at 10.27am, when the entrance to the courts would be crowded with judges, barristers and members of the public. The theory is that he punched in the current time from his own wristwatch which read 10.25 and then planned time of detonation, forgetting the 24-hour basis of the exercise. So, instead of hitting 22.25 followed by 10.27, he hit 10.25 and then 10.27. He would then have had two minutes to live and not 12 hours and two minutes to escape. '
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'Pathologist Dr Iain West said O'Brien, from Gorey, County Wexford, was killed "virtually instantaneously" by massive injuries caused by the explosion - his legs were blown off, he was peppered with shrapnel, and the force of the detonation ripped his lungs to tatters.
Forensic and pathological evidence suggested that the bomb was being carried in a bag at knee height as O'Brien stood at the bottom of the stairs of the double-decker bus.
Allen Feraday, a forensic scientist, said he could not say exactly why the bomb went off early, but said the most likely reasons included poor training, bad construction, and electrical or mechanical faults.'
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