# Outdoor vendor in Disneyland Toontown arrested for bombing **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 29, 2013, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outdoor-vendor-in-disneyland-toontown-arrested-for-bombing/659654 "2013-05-29T20:12:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2013, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outdoor-vendor-in-disneyland-toontown-arrested-for-bombing/659654/1 "2013-05-29T20:12:30Z")
[No one was injured in the small blast, but Disneyland briefly evacuated the Mickey’s Toontown section where the incident occurred Tuesday.](http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_23343289?source=most_viewed?source=inthenews) Disgruntled employee or just bored? ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2013, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outdoor-vendor-in-disneyland-toontown-arrested-for-bombing/659654/2 "2013-05-29T20:15:26Z")
My vote is bored. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2013, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outdoor-vendor-in-disneyland-toontown-arrested-for-bombing/659654/3 "2013-05-29T20:16:30Z")
Perhaps just stoopit? ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2013, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outdoor-vendor-in-disneyland-toontown-arrested-for-bombing/659654/4 "2013-05-29T20:17:28Z")
I believe that was a given. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2013, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outdoor-vendor-in-disneyland-toontown-arrested-for-bombing/659654/5 "2013-05-29T20:22:16Z")
Bonkers, yeah, totally nuts. Bonkers, no ifs, ands, or but buts. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2013, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outdoor-vendor-in-disneyland-toontown-arrested-for-bombing/659654/6 "2013-05-29T20:38:36Z")
> [@hogarth](#): > > Bonkers, yeah, totally nuts. > Bonkers, no ifs, ands, or but buts. Driven insane by “It’s a Small World” on endless repeat? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2013, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outdoor-vendor-in-disneyland-toontown-arrested-for-bombing/659654/7 "2013-05-29T20:44:51Z")
[Mug shot.](http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120203072620/nicktheultimaswordwielder/images/0/0a/10442-21221.gif) ---
**Author:** ![Neidhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Neidhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neidhart)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2013, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outdoor-vendor-in-disneyland-toontown-arrested-for-bombing/659654/8 "2013-05-29T21:44:54Z")
Doggone that Judge Doom! Won’t he ever give up? ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2013, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outdoor-vendor-in-disneyland-toontown-arrested-for-bombing/659654/9 "2013-05-29T22:50:42Z")
This happened before. When I was working there in the early 2000’s, someone had done the same thing: filled up a bottled water container with dry ice and water and sealed it. From the story I heard, he held it too long and it blew off a finger. Disney management still got him for making a bomb ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2013, 8:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outdoor-vendor-in-disneyland-toontown-arrested-for-bombing/659654/10 "2013-05-30T08:16:56Z")
Toons can’t be killed by dry ice bombs, doesn’t everyone know that!? What was this guy trying to pull? ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2013, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outdoor-vendor-in-disneyland-toontown-arrested-for-bombing/659654/11 "2013-05-30T08:24:54Z")
Not really a bombing. Teens have been making dry ice “bombs” for 50 years. It’s one of the reasons most places won’t sell dry ice to anyone under 18. Put a little dry ice in a plastic soda bottle. screw on the cap. It’ll make a bang in under 45 seconds. Yes its loud and can damage hearing. The biggest risk is having it go off in your hand. We used to set them off in a big field. Screw on the top and run about forty feet away. Mythbusters has set several off. Usually in a pool. Thats the safest way. A trashcan is a bad place. But its not a pipebomb or anything. But of course in these post 9/11 days they’ll treat this kid like he’s a terrorist. Lets throw him in prison for 15 years. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2013, 8:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outdoor-vendor-in-disneyland-toontown-arrested-for-bombing/659654/12 "2013-05-30T08:37:09Z")
btw, I was referring to a 16oz or 20oz plastic bottle. No way in heck would I ever use a 2 liter or 3 liter bottle. That would blow out someones eardrums. I see the article said this guy used a water bottle. Probably 12 or 16 oz. Thats similar to what teachers use in science class experiments. Students love that demo of expanding gas. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Hamster\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@The\_Hamster\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hamster_King)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2013, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outdoor-vendor-in-disneyland-toontown-arrested-for-bombing/659654/13 "2013-05-30T13:41:41Z")
I’m pretty sure the ice cream vendors at Disneyland have dry ice in their carts to keep the ice cream cool. He probably had all the makings on the bomb on the cart he was pushing around. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2013, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outdoor-vendor-in-disneyland-toontown-arrested-for-bombing/659654/14 "2013-05-30T14:04:49Z")
So not only did he participate in a terrorist action, he maintained a terrorist bomb-making facility? Execute him! ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2013, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outdoor-vendor-in-disneyland-toontown-arrested-for-bombing/659654/15 "2013-05-30T14:19:29Z")
> [@drewtwo99](#): > > Toons can’t be killed by dry ice bombs, doesn’t everyone know that!? What was this guy trying to pull? If he rigged up a piano to fall from four stories up, then I would be worried. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2013, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outdoor-vendor-in-disneyland-toontown-arrested-for-bombing/659654/16 "2013-05-30T14:21:15Z")
I hope he wrote “Acme” on the side of the bottle. ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2013, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outdoor-vendor-in-disneyland-toontown-arrested-for-bombing/659654/17 "2013-05-30T15:34:16Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > So not only did he participate in a terrorist action, he maintained a terrorist bomb-making facility? > > Execute him! Well, they do appear to be taking it [far too] seriously: > [@](#): > > Barnes, who worked as an outdoor vendor for the resort, was held on $1 million bail, Dunn said. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2013, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outdoor-vendor-in-disneyland-toontown-arrested-for-bombing/659654/18 "2013-05-30T16:07:20Z")
I hope they base the charge on how much care the kid used in setting up the prank. Even my 13 year old self (and my friends) understood the importance of making sure no one was any closer than 20 to 30 ft when it went off. That’s for a small 12 oz or 16 oz bottle. Setting one off with people standing really close is no prank. It’s still not a pipebomb but of course you’d have to seriously consider intent. A stupid mistake could require a few months or even a year in jail and civil penalties for anyone with hearing loss. But a million dollar bail for a loud bang from some dry ice gas? It sounds like they will over prosecute this guy. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2013, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outdoor-vendor-in-disneyland-toontown-arrested-for-bombing/659654/19 "2013-05-30T18:27:20Z")
I heard some Jackass news person say, “It is believed to be an _isolated_ incident”. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![dzeiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/46a35a/32.png) [@dzeiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dzeiger)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2013, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outdoor-vendor-in-disneyland-toontown-arrested-for-bombing/659654/20 "2013-05-30T21:16:52Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > I hope they base the charge on how much care the kid used in setting up the prank. > > Even my 13 year old self (and my friends) understood the importance of making sure no one was any closer than 20 to 30 ft when it went off. That’s for a small 12 oz or 16 oz bottle. > > Setting one off with people standing really close is no prank. It’s still not a pipebomb but of course you’d have to seriously consider intent. A stupid mistake could require a few months or even a year in jail and civil penalties for anyone with hearing loss. But a million dollar bail for a loud bang from some dry ice gas? It sounds like they will over prosecute this guy. I’d be surprised if there’s any place in Toontown where there is a trashcan that doesn’t have small children within 30 feet. (is that still where they do the main greet-and-picture with Mickey?) There certainly may be some over-prosecution there, sure, but blowing one up there is a lot different than doing it in some random trash can in an alley somewhere. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outdoor-vendor-in-disneyland-toontown-arrested-for-bombing/659654.md?page=2)