Hilarious Karma

[Ghengis51]

This is a story about the jerk who used to own a local gaming store I went to. But first a little background. There's a game called Warhammer 40k. This game uses plastic and pewter miniatures in it. Said miniatures are not cheap and after assembling and painting a good sized army you've spent many hours and hundreds of dollars on them. And the standard case for them is a large blocky black plastic box.

So this guy who used to own the game shop now works for the state goverment. While at work one day, some guys break into his car and take the usuals like CDs that type of thing. During the course of the theft said thieves tossed his carrying case onto the sidewalk (I'm picturing them opening it, saying WTF is this, then ditching it). Someone walking on the sidewalk thought the unmarked black box sitting next to a goverment building. So they called it into the bomb squad, who then preceded to detonate it.

I nearly fell off my couch when I heard about this.

[Canarr]

Oh GAWD no... damn, that sucks. Getting a case full of Warhammer figures blown up?

Thanks for the morning laugh, here. I don't suppose you've got some sucky stories about that jerk somewhere?

[Ghengis51]

Nah, I didn't deal with him too much personally. He was just an ass, and ripped people off on occasion, I do know that when he sold the shop to a friend of his, there was some issues after the new owner filed his taxes, apparently the jerk never done them when he owned it.

It's all good, the shop I go to now is great, the owner just gave me discounts since I was dropping $150 to start my Battlefleet Gothic fleet.

[Sheldonrs]

Oh the pewtermanity!!!

[Dreamstalker]

Holy...well, IMO he was asking for it by not doing something to indicate the box held game figures (I just keep my DDM warbands in dice bags, easier to transport and tell what they are).

I remember those carrying cases...LastBoss put a few on ebay and didn't tell me what had to be shipped until it was too late (took me a day, many minor injuries and a lot of swearing to get them packaged properly using the store's pitiful crap supplies).

[Sliceanddice]

they would have still detnated if, because any label he would ohave put on it would have looked hand made and just slapped on and better safe than sorry

[Arm]

Look on the bright side- could there really BE a better way to destroy them?

If they must be destroyed, and everything is eventually, then it's just too appropriate for warhammer miniatures to get detonated

[Gurndigarn]

If they must be destroyed, and everything is eventually, then it's just too appropriate for warhammer miniatures to get detonated

Are tentacles dragging them down into the Abyss an option, here?

[Ghengis51]

Are tentacles dragging them down into the Abyss an option, here?

There are 40k so I think lost in the Warp would be more appropriate

[AnaKhouri]

I just went in and looked at my husband's carrying case; it is a square black bag that says 'Army Carrier Platoon' on the side.

I would have blown it up too!

[One-Fang]

Yeah, anything you can put on the side of it can be placed on the side of a bomb by a bomb-maker.

I'm a bit concerned about this immediate "it's a bomb" assumption. Are things really that bad over there? Was it right ouside the government buildings or something?

[Ghengis51]

Up against the side of one from what I've been told. It's state goverment and there are spots were you just have the street, the sidewalk, then a state goverment building next to it. I'm not sure what agency it was though.

[crazylegs]

Just as an aside when EOD deal with an IED they don't (at least in the UK) blow it up in the traditional sense.

They load an explosive charge into a barrel and said barrel has water within it, once the charge is initiated the water comes out the end and disrupts the device completely.

It does it this way because you cannot compress water...

[Pagan]

I'm a bit concerned about this immediate "it's a bomb" assumption. Are things really that bad over there? Was it right ouside the government buildings or something?

Well, we've got a lot of panicking, over-reacting sheeple over here since 9/11.

There are still some people that think Cottonwood Mall is a target. (Although we actually do have a couple of hard targets in NM.)