Reply With QuoteDont know, hopefully not near me. Matt
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Wonder where it's going to go bang??!!
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/sto...005961,00.html
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Dont know, hopefully not near me. Matt
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Ah great, just what we need, somebody trying to blow us up
That or somebody has a lot of fertalising to do
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Cynical Moi?
For such a thing to occur is beyond belief in this day & age.
Shirley stuff like this, should be transported in far more secure conditions with extra safeguards. Satellite monitoring of the cargo space/tracking etc.
They can get stuff to land on Mars, so something like this should be a doddle.
You can bet your socks, Luigi from the local market garden ain't going to use it on his veggies.
TopicToaster
G'day All, This is old news it happened about 6 /8 days ago, nsw police have arrested 4 men in connection with the theft, imho it certainly smacks of inside info either from supplier (orica kurri kurri nsw) or the railways and or purchaser (end user) either way the nsw police will find out, but in the meantime they are in the slammer cheers Dennis
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Did they retrieve the stuff, Dennis?
Some tea leaf stole/"mislaid" a couple of tonnes of the stuff a couple of years ago from a Rural Supplies retailer north of Adelaide. Never did hear if they got it back, but I think not.
TopicToaster
G'day All, To be honest I don't know as I was doing other things when i heard this on the radio, but I will endeavour to listen throughout the day cheers Dennis
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If they had let it off in Kal no one would notice, the place gets a good rattling everyday as it is
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Ammonium Nitrate has been transported safely, in bulk, for nearly a 100 years.Originally Posted by 4bee
For such a thing to occur is beyond belief in this day & age.
Shirley stuff like this, should be transported in far more secure conditions with extra safeguards. Satellite monitoring of the cargo space/tracking etc.
They can get stuff to land on Mars, so something like this should be a doddle.
You can bet your socks, Luigi from the local market garden ain't going to use it on his veggies.
it has been widely used as a fertiliser and industrial explosive because of its low cost and safety (it is not explosive by itself and is not classed as a hazardous substance for transport)- which is why it has been favoured for use as a terrorist explosive, because it is readily available, not because it has any inherent advantages - it doesn't. Make it more difficult to get, and terrorists will change to something more easily obtained - such as, for example, LPG, which was a major part of the big bomb in Bali. Maybe we should have satellite monitoring of LPG containers. For that matter, any nitrogenous fertiliser can be readily converted into an explosive by anyone with high school chemistry - are we going to stop using fertiliser?
Satellite monitoring of bulk cargo is not trivial - witness in this case the container was broken open - even with satellite tracking of the container, it could still be broken open. To prevent this sort of thing absolutely, you would need security at every railway siding, truck stop and spot where a driver might stop for a snooze throughout the country.
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