You know ... it's not the fact that the guys got drunk and stole 700 pounds of explosives that bothers me, quite. After all, people do terribly stupid things when they get drunk.
It's the fact that they stole, with apparent impunity, 700 pounds of explosives from an ATF storehouse in THIS day and age that boggles the mind. I mean, wouldn't you think that the FBI, of which Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms is a subset, would think, "Hey, Beavis. We suspect that terrorists are wandering around the country in big trucks waiting for their chance to make something big go boom. Maybe we ought to put a guard on our explosives caches, or at least put tracers or something in them so we can find them if someone takes them. Whaddya say?"
Copyright © 2001, Iain Jackson, after-words.org
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