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Police Searching For Soda Bottle Bomb Suspect

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Channel: WTVC NewsChannel 9 · 2013 · News & Politics

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by John Madewell  Soda bottle bombs are dangerous and can cause serious injury, but with access to the Internet, they're easy to make.Yesterday, Fort Oglethorpe police dealt with two of them; one that exploded and one that didn't. Police are looking for the suspect or suspects and are treating this seriously.NewsChannel 9 knows the ingredients in this bomb, but for obvious reasons will not disclose them.However, we shared them with a chemistry teacher, who says the explosion could cause severe injury.Joseph Floyd collected aluminum foil out of his Fort Oglethorpe yard and is storing it in a freezer bag.This afternoon, he showed it to us.The foil was stuffed inside a two or three liter bottle in his driveway. It's part of Wednesday night's explosive chemical reaction that happened out in front of his house.Floyd described the sound he heard about 11:15 p.m., It was loud, it sounded like a doube barrel shotgun going off in my house.We're purposely leaving the details out in the Fort Oglethorpe explosion.This afternoon, we met Boyd Buchanan chemistry teacher Todd Roland.We shared the ingredients inside the Fort O. bottle with him.He explains what happens next. Roland said, You have a chemical reaction, it's going to liberate a lot of heat. And the heat's going to cause the gases in the bottle to expand and the bottle's going to restrict that so you're going to get a lot of pressure building up in the bottle.Upon explosion, the rapidly expanding wall of air does the damage.Roland went on to say how dangerous these soda bottle or works bombs can be. It's going to do pressure damage, but also it's going to spray everyone within a radius and I don't know what the radius is with whatever the caustic chemicals  are that were in the reaction, Roland said.Police diffused another bottle found in the next driveway.Fortunately, no damage or injuries happened.But Floyd's granddaughter also lives in the home.She worries about what could've happened, especially with her 3-year-old daughter Chloe. Ashley Johnson said, The police officer said if anybody would have been out here it could've taken off an arm or a leg or made somebody go blind.Police are trying to determine a motive, but right now have no leads.The family has a theory but chose to keep that private. Meanwhile, the GBI has also become involved. They are assisting Fort Oglethorpe police with the evidence collected.If you know anything or saw anything on Van Cleve Road Wednesday night, contact Fort O police.

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