Anything That Goes Bang is Illegal
or so says police Lt. Bruce Ferguson in Lansing, Michigan.
He was moved to comment after a man tired of burglars nearly blew off his hand when bomb-like devices he set around his house exploded. After the explosions, Victor Iacobescu, 50, ran to a neighbor's house with a bloody towel wrapped around his right hand.
The police are planning to prosecute because they can't think of any legal reasons to be making bombs.
Play with fire, get burnt, my old mum used to say.