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July 3, 2005
No more Ammonium Nitrate?
A knuckle-dragging Neanderthal is reporting that it looks like Agrium has announced that they have ceased production of Ammonium Nitrate fertilizer. Of course, we have Tim McVeigh to thank for all of this. He filled barrels with about 5,000 pounds of Ammonium Nitrate soaked in extremely volatile nitromethane and put them in the back of a yellow Ryder rental truck. Then, he ignited a timed fuse from the front of the truck and parked it in front of the Federal Building in Okalahoma City on April 19th, 1995 (the 2nd anniversary of Waco).
Update: This entry was corrected based on information posted in the comments. Thanks for pointing out the errors, Joe.
Posted by Peenie Wallie on July 3, 2005 at 11:23 PM
Comments
A few corrections.
1) I believe it was 5,000 pounts, not 50K pounds.
2) He used a fuse not a timer.
3) He use nitromethane not diesel.
Posted by: Joe on July 5, 2005 at 1:53 PM