FBI on Columbine: "Bombs Too Sophisticated"

[rsmandudeguy]

No you fuckers. They made it. They're in high school, but it's obvious they weren't stupid.

[mikeyduke10]

how could you say that anyway? just because this is sophisticated doesnt mean crap.... they could easyily buy anything they needed over the internet or through people they know that the police have never found out about.... and they could easyily of obtained the knowledge to do it in the exact same way....

[kurby91]

The reason the bombs failed is because they were too sophisticated for Eric or Dylan to make. Eric made the pipe bombs and attempted to use knowledge he gained from the Anarchist's Cookbook, which would later prove useless.

[AllanHable]

if you watch the tapes of eric and dylan u can see the older girl who bought them the guns and another guy shooting the trees wonder if they were involved they must have atleast said something, just a guess but i think they had help and the others backed off.

[Paulwhoisvegan]

I was going to, but my family moved, so I couldn't

[Paulwhoisvegan]

no, i was 9

[lst1195]

I will admit something esle has always struck me as odd about the bombs....Erci admired Tim McVeigh, Tim McVeigh used Gas & fetilizer, a much more lethal & reliable bomb then Propane. So why didn't Eric do the same? He Had Gasoline obviously and could have gotten fertilizer just as easy....That always seemed odd to me.

[monst3rul3s]

Well, the fertilizer that McVeigh used was ammonium nitrate, and I'm sure that after the bombing, it would be suspicious-- especially for young kids to go in and buy any quantity of it. Also, ANFO generally uses blasting caps to detonate, and obtaining propane tanks and making pipe bombs with timing devices, in my opinion, would be a lot easier, and could be smuggled into a school with a duffel bag without the smell of diesel wafting out. But I do see your point in explosive the might prefer ...

[lst1195]

@monst3rul3s : yeah, you're right now that i think of it. this was still pre-9/11, Oaklahoma city was fresh in everyones minds and I remember what a stink people were raising about fretilizer at the time now. There was even a huge story about some chemist trying to find a way to make fertilizer that disolved if it came in contact with gas. people were paranoid about the stuff, I just forgot.

[LeGette88]

@monst3rul3s eric and dylan klebold made thier bombs from fireworks gunpowder... its in a documentary..

[MrApparatis]

But the propane bombs didnt even work.

[Paulwhoisvegan]

I met Eric harris when i was in the 3rd or 4th grade, he seemed nice to me

[Mentallyawake568]

One of them partially worked. It spread fire throughout the cafeteria.

[PlanetDip]

thanks

[M0LONLABE]

WOW ... where does this point?

[foreverand2day]

Very interesting find, i was just reading about this incident and thought something along these lines would be the case.