# Some asshole just bombed a bank near me **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 13, 2008, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-asshole-just-bombed-a-bank-near-me/477030 "2008-12-13T18:20:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-asshole-just-bombed-a-bank-near-me/477030/21 "2008-12-17T05:20:48Z")
> [@Sapo](#): > > Well, as much as I despise the idea of killing innocents over any cause, it is not as if white collar criminals have their hands any less bloodied. > > Just as you say two lives for boards and nails, that guy can say a little bang over his own flesh and bones thrown to the harshness of the elements for a pencil pusher getting a new car. > > Is the bomber a fuckup, yes he is. Did this nonsense make sense in his mind, you bet it did. In that scenario, everybody lives to play the game again tomorrow. ---
**Author:** ![Sapo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Sapo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapo)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-asshole-just-bombed-a-bank-near-me/477030/22 "2008-12-17T17:52:18Z")
> [@Cisco](#): > > In that scenario, everybody lives to play the game again tomorrow. Just because the bombing kill people right then and there, that doesn’t mean that the victims of corporate crime are more fortunate. They also die. It might take a bit longer, but they make up for it with more painful deaths and sheer numbers. ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-asshole-just-bombed-a-bank-near-me/477030/23 "2008-12-17T18:04:58Z")
[ul] [li]Two people have been arrested - father and son.[/li][li]Two officers are dead, including the bomb expert.[/li][li]The chief of police has lost part of his leg in the explosion.[/li][li]The police moved the bomb inside of the bank because they thought it was a fake bomb. It exploded when they attempted to open it.[/li][/ul] [Link here](http://www.koinlocal6.com/content/news/topstories/story/Father-Arrested-in-Woodburn-Bombing/KxlvvzuV6kSXKXKJXQF8mg.cspx). ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-asshole-just-bombed-a-bank-near-me/477030/24 "2008-12-17T21:57:42Z")
> [@Sapo](#): > > Just because the bombing kill people right then and there, that doesn’t mean that the victims of corporate crime are more fortunate. They also die. It might take a bit longer, but they make up for it with more painful deaths and sheer numbers. whatever :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Xema](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/9de053/32.png) [@Xema](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xema)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2008, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-asshole-just-bombed-a-bank-near-me/477030/25 "2008-12-18T00:49:00Z")
> [@Sapo](#): > > Well, as much as I despise the idea of killing innocents over any cause, it is not as if white collar criminals have their hands any less bloodied. > > … > > Just because the bombing kill people right then and there, that doesn’t mean that the victims of corporate crime are more fortunate. They also die. It might take a bit longer, but they make up for it with more painful deaths and sheer numbers. This attempt to link a specific (and heinous) crime with a vague “corporate crime” bogieman seems decidedly weak. There is plenty of corporate crime, and it runs the gamut from mild to beyond nasty. Some of it may well be the moral equivalent of blowing people up; plenty isn’t. Saying that corporate crime victims “also die” “more painful deaths” is no doubt true in some cases and absurdly false in others. Large numbers of white collar criminals most certainly have their hands less bloodied. The issue probably belongs in another thread. ---
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2008, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-asshole-just-bombed-a-bank-near-me/477030/26 "2008-12-18T00:50:51Z")
> [@Rack-a-Bones](#): > > I am curious to know this as well. I thought they just used a robot to drop the package into a big iron tub then they take it out to a field somewhere and blow it up Depending on the type of bomb, the robot itself can blow it to pieces with a small gun, rendering it inactive. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-asshole-just-bombed-a-bank-near-me/477030.md?page=1)