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Posted on: Oct. 21 2012,1:06 am |
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Someone called 911 from Pelican road and said there was an explosion and someone was injured. The first law enforcement on the scene said the man's hand was amputated by the explosion. They called for a helicopter but the helicopter wasn't flying so they apparently transported the victim to ALMC.
No word on the cause of the explosion.
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irisheyes
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Posted on: Oct. 21 2012,7:02 pm |
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I was walking back to my car after leaving a friends and heard what I thought was a gunshot, odd since it was like 12:30 at night. I also was wondering fireworks, but to me it sounded more like if someone fires a gun from a couple blocks or half a mile away. Figured it was some people having fun in the country, so didn't think anything more of it.
Pelican Road has gotta be at least two miles from where I was. I doubt I would've heard anything had I not been outside, but people a ways down South Shore Drive would've been woken up by that.
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ICU812
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Posted on: Oct. 22 2012,12:52 pm |
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Pretty big explosion from what I hear.
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ControlledHyperness
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Posted on: Oct. 22 2012,5:51 pm |
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We are about three to four miles from there, and i heard nothing...of course we are close to teain tracks and a train going by. I was shocked at the sirens that went by.
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Posted on: Oct. 22 2012,11:28 pm |
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QUOTE Freeborn County Sheriff Bob Kindler said Ronald Irvin Rofshus, 48, received severe injury to his left arm and was transported by ambulance from his home to Mayo Clinic Health System in Albert Lea. From there, he was taken to the Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis. Kindler said Rofshus was working with explosive chemicals in his basement at 18115 Pelican Road, off of South Shore Drive, when the chemicals ignited at about 12:15 a.m. http://www.albertleatribune.com/2012/10/22/man-injured-in-explosion/
From what they said on the scanner his hand was unrecognizable from the wrist down.
I've heard rumors the chemicals were some type of Tannerite.
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Posted on: Oct. 23 2012,8:45 am |
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QUOTE So-called, “Homemade Tannerite®” and patent rip-off targets can often end in catastrophic failure, and has in fact ended up causing serious injury and death. Unfortunately the internet is always riddled with everyone’s attempts to show others how to engineer various items, and in this case a patented and safe item. We have inspected many other types of infringing products and some homemade recipes are incredibly unstable and can be detonated on accident by static electricity, friction and flame, making it lethal to the creator. We don’t wish to prevent others from experimenting on their own and having fun, but we have heard it all, from people being blown in half by infringer brand X targets, to a young man who blew his pants off (and some other appendages with it), then claimed it was “Tannerite®”, which it was NOT. Every time someone gets hurt with their own concoction or a fly-by-night patent thief’s product, we get pointed at and we are sick and tired of it. You have been warned, and Tannerite® accepts no responsibility for any website or individual purporting to have a recipe for homemade Tannerite®. We have spoken with and have on record, contact data to individuals who have in fact been injured by homemade exploding target recipes. The REAL patented Tannerite® target is safe, stable, and can not be activated by anything other than a high powered rifle round. The only persons or companies allowed to use our trademarked name or sell binary exploding targets, are authorized distributors of Tannerite® Company. We have dealer programs for those who are interested in being in the business of reselling Binary Exploding Targets. Tannerite |
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Posted on: Oct. 23 2012,9:29 am |
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So,u can legally make bombs in your basement now?
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Posted on: Oct. 23 2012,10:56 am |
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this sounds like a terrible tragedy! any news on how he is doing?
does any one have any idea just what he was trying to do & why?
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usmcr
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Posted on: Oct. 25 2012,8:36 am |
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back a few years there was some unexplained explosions inj albert lea lake. some thought they were related to swamp gases. maybe a connection?
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