Alleged Mailbox Bombers Arrested!

Police finally arrested the alleged Drano bomb makers, as cops in Horsham arrested two 12-year-olds for allegedly creating a bomb with a soda bottle and cleaner The Works. Looks like Drano isn’t as popular as it once was!

A guy at the U.S. Postal Service told the Courier Times those two kids could have gone to prison forever and ever: “If a death occurs, you’re looking at life.”

Nobody was killed, so fortunately the kids will only face 99 years or something.

Boys arrested in mailbox bombing [Bucks County Courier Times]
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Kids Using Drano Bombs Again!

NBC 10 told us a week or so ago that raves still existed, and now a fad from even earlier in the 1990s is apparently still around: Drano bombs! Okay, so “kids” and “blowing shit up” is a pair that’s been around for millions of years. Whatever.

The Horsham police are calling them “works bombs,” but that’s probably just a hip new term. “Works bombs” are a combination of tin foil and toilet bowl cleaner; the two mixes produce a gas which, when capped, will eventually explode.

Apparently kids in Horsham have moved on from knocking over mailboxes with baseball bats to blowing them up with bombs. Frankly, that shows some real dedication to chemistry. Maybe it’s for extra credit?

Update: It’s a crime wave! The bomb-in-a-mailbox prank has spread from Warminster to Upper Moreland to Doylestown to Horsham, The Intelligencer writes. And, please, be careful: “Police advise anyone who finds a soda bottle in a mailbox not to touch it and to call police immediately.”

Horsham Police Warn of Mailbox Pranks That May Prove Dangerous [KYW 1060]