Man finds dynamite on side of road‎

By at 2 September, 2010, 9:14 am

Ronald Knous, 52, of St. Petersburg, said he found seven sticks of dynamite in a plastic bag near the side os a road near the Home Shopping Network in St. Petersburg, reports the St. Petersburg Times . Deputies said they were quarter-length sticks, and not full-sized sticks of dynamite. Hoping to properly dispose of them, Knous, who has previous experience with explosives, put them in the bed of his pickup and drove to the nearby Pinellas County Solid Waste Operations hoping there might be a bomb disposal unit there — but no such facility exists in Pinellas. reports

the St. Petersburg Times. So he took the dynamite to the Household Electronics and Chemical Collection Center where personnel called 911. Finally the Tampa Bay Regional Bomb Squad took the dynamite out of the pickup and set it off in an empty field. Photo: [JAMES BORCHUCK | St. Petersburg Times] An explosive technician removes a bag with several sticks of dynamite from a box before he detonated the dynamite in a vacant field across the street from the Pinellas County Landfill Tuesday afternoon.

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Man finds dynamite on side of road‎

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