Package explodes at San Diego FedEx building

[RamboLiberal]

Source: AP

SAN DIEGO — San Diego police say a package containing wires and batteries has exploded at a FedEx office but nobody was injured.

The explosion occurred shortly after 6 a.m. Wednesday in a strip mall in the Sorrento Valley neighborhood.

Lt. Dan Christman says employees sorting boxes were about 6 feet from the cardboard box when it exploded. The workers reported there was a flash and a smell like gunpowder.

Christman says batteries and wires were seen inside the box.

The building was evacuated and a police bomb squad was called in.

Update:

SAN DIEGO -- San Diego authorities say a package explosion at a FedEx warehouse appears to have been sparked by batteries and was not intentional.

City fire spokesman Maurice Luque (Loo-kay) says two lithium batteries in a box made contact and exploded shortly after 6 a.m. Wednesday at the building in the Miramar neighborhood. No one was injured.



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[virgogal]

1. Probably Brown did it . :-)

[kirby]

20. What can Brown do for you? n/t

[havocmom]

2. Perhaps some critical-thinking-challenged sociopath though FedEx is Federal?

Wonder if there is anything left of the address label on that box.

[slackmaster]

12. Brilliant thinking!

Premature and turned out to be not correct, but brilliant nonetheless.

[xchrom]

3. I wonder what this will be about. Nt

[superconnected]

4. What's going on is a whole lot of Tea Baggers believe in overthowing the government

thanks to the rw radio talk show hosts who have told them to.

[tomm2thumbs]

5. +1

and how many of their own family members will they take out in stupidity - blindly

[hugo_from_TN]

19. -1

Knee jerk reactions are rarely right.

[emulatorloo]

6. UPDATE: Police Detective Gary Hassen says they concluded the blast was an accident.

Batteries blamed for blast at San Diego FedEx

Wednesday, April 14, 2010


Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/04/14/state/n083214D95.DTL&tsp=1#ixzz0l5hGI3zy

ASSOCIATED PRESS

San Diego authorities say a package explosion at a FedEx warehouse appears to have been sparked by batteries and was not intentional.


City fire spokesman Maurice Luque (Loo-kay) says two lithium batteries in a box made contact and exploded shortly after 6 a.m. Wednesday at the building in the Miramar neighborhood. No one was injured.

Police Lt. Dan Christman say employees who were sorting packages were about 6 feet away from the cardboard box when it exploded. They reported a flash and smell like gunpowder.

The building was evacuated. A police bomb squad was called in.

Police Detective Gary Hassen says they concluded the blast was an accident.



Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/04/14/state/n083214D95.DTL&tsp=1#ixzz0l5h1pH7x

[X_Digger]

7. Was it an apple, dell, or toshiba battery, though? hehe.

http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/06/another-powerbook-violently-explodes/

http://gizmodo.com/182257/dell-laptop-explodes-in-flames

http://www.usrecallnews.com/2007/08/more-exploding-laptop-batteries-toshiba-satellite-and-tecra-computers.html

[RamboLiberal]

8. Glad this happened on the ground and not in one of their planes

Probably wouldn't have damaged the plane but starting a fire I would think would be a worry in tightly packed cargo in a plane.

[slackmaster]

11. I'm sure FedEx is glad about that too

:nuke:

[daggahead]

9. The Christian Taliban? n/t

[slackmaster]

10. Improperly packed lithium batteries

Nothing to see...

[aquart]

13. But now I want to know exactly the proper way to pack a lithium battery.

Because I never even knew such a thing could happen.

[slackmaster]

15. The key is to make sure there is no possibility of the contacts touching a conductor

It's not really very hard.

Don't do what my grandfather did once - He bought a bunch of alkaline batteries wholesale, when they were still rather expensive. He heard that keeping them in the freezer would extend their life.

He wrapped them up tightly.

In aluminum foil.

[aquart]

23. I'm guessing aluminum foil is a conductor?

All righty then.If I thought about it, I think I would have known.

[tomhayes]

14. We did have a pipe bomb explode a few years back

Someone put a pipe bomb at FedEx and the Federal Court Hosue in San Diegoa few years back. I think they were actually caught and convicted.

[slackmaster]

16. Yes, they are dumbasses

Video of the detonation at http://legacy.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20080806-1140-bn06court.html

[TeeYiYi]

17. Hmmm.... So, if this was an accident...

... I wonder what was up with the "gunpowder" smell?

TYY

[havocmom]

18. LOL You from Missouri? I am ;^)

Police press releases have been known to be more spin than fact in the pass. I always reserve the right to have my doubts.

[kirby]

21. Poor witness memory...

When people get 'bomb' into their mindset, all of a sudden they see 'wires' and smell 'gunpowder'.

[X_Digger]

22. or 'groupthink' / 'suggestability' n/t

[boppers]

24. How many people are actually familiar with the many different scents of gunpowder?

Flash Burn smells = "Gunpowder Scent" to many.