OK, thias one has me freaked out. Usually when I hear or read something like this, I dismiss it, but this one has been blessed as genuine by Snopes, fer cryin’ out loud:
People booby-trapping tennis balls as bombs and just leaving them lying around? I’m surprised we haven’t heard more warnings about this.
hell, I found instructions on how to make this back in 1992, so they are nothing new…never did try it.
I just Googled “Tennis Ball Bomb”. There are quite a few sites telling how to make these, and other eapons of Minor Destruction. It seems to me that most of these are the most danger to the inexperienced kids trying to build them. I’m surprisded there aren’t more reports of lost fingers and hands.
But I’m not as surprised about the existence of Tennis Ball Bombs anymore. I can easily see som bored kid putting one together with materials at hand, trying to set it off, and failing. then leaving the failed munition around for dogs to inadvertently play with. Besides the report of the injured dog, there are reports of fires set off by these things.