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]

Our Own (Small Scale) Prostitute Scandal

We may not have any hilarious stories of hypocrisy and sex at the level of Eliot Spitzer, but don’t think consensual crimes haven’t corrupted those in the Keystone State.

Why, ex-Horsham police officer Thomas Crow has pled guilty to soliciting a hooker while in uniform and then trying to cover it up!

The charges stem from an incident last year when the 36-year-old Crow picked up a hooker while in uniform and then tried to cover it up by telling police he was investigating an escort for his brother-in-law.

Prosecutor Todd Stephens says he lied, destroyed some notes and tried to have other witnesses lie to police: “When you have a police officer falsely accusing people of crimes, I think that’s a serious charge and we have to aggressively prosecute that.”

That quote is so strange. Most people, I would hope, believe cops falsely accusing people of crimes is a pretty serious charge, not just this prosecutor. You know what? Don’t let me know if I’m wrong here.

Former Cop Faces Charges For Hooker Cover-Up [KYW 1060]