PTC police offer reward on homemade bomb explosions

Wed, 05/28/2008 - 3:01pm
By: The Citizen

Peachtree City police are hoping a $500 reward helps to get more information on two recent explosions of homemade bombs.

The latest homemade bomb exploded on the front porch of a north Peachtree City residence early Wednesday morning.

The bomb, made using a 20-ounce bottle and an unknown liquid, detonated but caused no damage, and no one was injured by the blast, police said.

A similar incident was reported at a residence in the 300 block of Hippocket Road in central Peachtree City, police said. In that incident a witness saw several white male juveniles in the area of some mailboxes before hearing "a noise consistent with an explosion," police said.

The juveniles were last seen running towards the Willowbend Road area. The explosion appeared to be caused by a small homemade explosive device, police said.

Police are following up leads in the cases. The reward will be issued for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or person responsible for the crimes, police said.

Anyone with information on either incident is asked to call the department's criminal investigations division at 770-631-2510 or the crime and narcotics information hotline at 770-487-6010.

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Submitted by theguy on Thu, 05/29/2008 - 6:18pm.

How about we give The Citizen the benefit of the doubt here? I would bet money that the statement "a witness saw several white male juveniles..." came directly from a police report from the incident that was obtained by the author. The police have to use descriptors in their reports for investigative purposes. The fact that the information wound up in the article is inconsequential. What is important here is that these idiots (is that better?) are going around putting explosives on innocent people's property.

Let's get over the racial crap. There are better things to worry about.

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Submitted by Git Real on Thu, 05/29/2008 - 6:58pm.

If they were black juvenile thugs they should be identified as such. The fact that they were white juvenile white trash thugs just narrows down the search. Get a grip folks and let's find these punks and beat the crap out 'em. Evil

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Submitted by sageadvice on Thu, 05/29/2008 - 7:19pm.

Yeah, beating the crap out of them is what they did in China not too many years ago. I think they still do.
I happened to be in China a number of years ago and saw how such things were handled.
The police arrest the people, kids and all, and take them to jail. There they are beaten sufficiently so that they can't eat or move for a few days. Then they are released. Other than killing a cop, it doesn't much matter what they did.
On a second offense they get seven years of it on an Island.
Kill a cop with a scooter or a motorcycle, or any other way, and you are dead in three days.
The cops decide everything! They do get a lot of guilty people, and a lot of not guilty people. They don't care--they have Billions of people.

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Submitted by Git Real on Thu, 05/29/2008 - 7:31pm.

Shhh.... I was just kidding. Acutally I'd like to see them enlisted into the Hugs for Thugs program which is being funded by our DA's office in addition to their Predator Prayer Groups which encourage these fine upstanding citizens in 'just being themselves'.

In regards to China... there really isn't much funny about their tactics is there. They especially enjoy beating the crap out of Christians who gather for in homes for worship and prayer.

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Submitted by TonyF on Thu, 05/29/2008 - 9:31am.

I don't understand why The Citizen has to point out these kids' race. Why is it everytime a crime is commited, you feel the need to point out the perps having the misfortune of being white? All we ever hear is white on white crime, white gang members, white thugs, white this, white that, white, white, white, yada, yada, yada, waaaah, waaaah waaaah. CALL THE WAAAAAHMBULANCE, HELP, HELP, I'M BEING REPRESSED!!!!

O wad some Power the giftie gie us,To see oursels as ithers see us!
(R. Burns)
If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot.
(E. M. Cioran)


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Submitted by shadowalker on Fri, 05/30/2008 - 12:15pm.

you are fairly stupid arent you, lets say i live down the street and see kids running and here a bang when i report it i tell the police it was white kids, the news paper reports it as white kids, my neighbor sees around the same day and time white kids run into one house near him and reads the paper. calls the cops and advises
and he sees black kids run into another house does he call the cops
NO why because the paper let you know they were WHITE.

just like the paper should advise that your comment is stupid as the title and i would not read it.

shadowalker


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Submitted by TonyF on Fri, 05/30/2008 - 12:22pm.

who's the stupid one, everyone else knew it was meant as a humorous commentary. Do I need to add a disclaimer? WOW, can I get an AMEN?

O wad some Power the giftie gie us,To see oursels as ithers see us!
(R. Burns)
If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot.
(E. M. Cioran)


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Submitted by Git Real on Thu, 05/29/2008 - 10:14am.

Good One.

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Submitted by skyspy on Thu, 05/29/2008 - 9:48am.

They have to give a description when they are still looking for the criminals. Which is what these "angels" are.

Submitted by Sick of Fascists on Fri, 05/30/2008 - 7:48pm.

Yep, because describing someone as "black" or "white" is going to cause me to immediately recognize the suspects if they enter my neighborhood.

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Submitted by TonyF on Fri, 05/30/2008 - 5:58am.

O wad some Power the giftie gie us,To see oursels as ithers see us!
(R. Burns)
If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot.
(E. M. Cioran)


Submitted by skyspy on Fri, 05/30/2008 - 6:55am.

For someone who says he is grumpy you are hilarious, between you and Hutch you both make this thing worth reading.

Sorry I missed lunch yesterday, lat.33 is one of my favorites.

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Submitted by ftp on Thu, 05/29/2008 - 9:10am.

Darwin Swings and Misses again.............


Submitted by skyspy on Thu, 05/29/2008 - 8:58am.

Can we horsewhip the parents in public when you catch these strong arguments for abortion?

Just one pill a day people. If you don't want to discipline them stop having them!!! The rest of us are sick to death of putting up with your worthless spawn.

Why is it that the only kids who behave this badly in the county are PTC kids? Why are the parents so lame here?

Since nothing happened to the 2 kids who pulled this earlier in the year at Foreston Place, I guess these kids think they won't be punished either.

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Submitted by JAFO 72 on Fri, 05/30/2008 - 12:36pm.

There is no lifegaurd at the gene pool. I have two ankle biters of my own that I am training to be hooligans.

"The one constant in all of your failed relationships is you."


Submitted by USArmybrat on Thu, 05/29/2008 - 9:56am.

Yes,this is a serious crime and I hope they catch the perps and punish them harshly.Wouldn't mind seeing them all put on their own little "chain gang" and work their butts off, all over PTC. But, PTC kids are definitely not the worse in the county, if you keep up with the criminal reports for here in Fayette.. There are "lame" parents everywhere, unfortunately, but there are pretty good ones, too. I always felt that teaching and helping to mold my kids character was paramount, above all else. And, I am thankful to say, I have succeeded.

Submitted by skyspy on Thu, 05/29/2008 - 10:03am.

I have looked at the crime reports for the Sheriff's Dept. and the city of Fayetteville so far I have not seen anything that matches the crap that we see in PTC. Starting with the animals being tortured and killed a few weeks ago, to the drug parties, that included one rape and one murder (accidental homicide), to the breaking and entering of six buisnesses....

Maybe similar stuff is happening in Fayetteville and it is not being reported.

Keep up the good work as a parent.

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Submitted by wulfman on Thu, 05/29/2008 - 9:32am.

I couldn’t have said it any better myself.

If these kids are caught they will receive a spank on the hand at best.

So much for the punishment fitting the crime.

Wulf


Submitted by blazing2006 on Thu, 05/29/2008 - 9:50am.

will unfortunately be the only way these kids will learn a lesson. Sad to say.

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Submitted by carbonunit52 on Thu, 05/29/2008 - 9:13am.

That is harsh talk skyspy. I am concerned for everyone involved, the kids included, who will most likely be the ones injured from fooling around with homemade explosives. These kids can read, and would take great joy in reading how upset you are over this. I personally am glad that they do not have access to the stuff that was readily available when I was a teenager. My advice to them is to find some volunteer work that involves demolition (without explosives).


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Submitted by simpleton on Thu, 05/29/2008 - 10:02am.

That's an interesting idea. Recruit adolescent males for minor demolition work. Ha, we could have the cleanest AND the most well-behaved community in the country if we just harness all of that brand new testosterone-fueled energy and put it to good use.
And I agree that people may be overreacting to this. While I am certainly of the opinion that Peachtree City teens appear to be more "spoiled" than teens in other communities, kids like to blow things up. I don't know of a kid who didn't try to build mini-bombs at some point, often out of Sprite bottles. If only to drop in the school toilet. It's a teenage pastime that, obviously, should not be encouraged and should not go unpunished, but I think it unlikely that they were out to blow up someone's house.


Submitted by skyspy on Thu, 05/29/2008 - 9:55am.

This screams volumes about the kind of people that are parents here.

Yes the kids here take great joy in destroying things. I'm just disgusted that the good people here have to put up with a steady stream of garbage from worthless parents and kids. I hope the only people they hurt are themselves

Submitted by mthom5436 on Thu, 05/29/2008 - 12:45pm.

How big were the explosions? I heard somthing about a mail man getting blown up. Is that part true?

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