return2ozma@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 2 months agoMan accused of attempting to use weapon of mass destruction to destroy Nashville energy facility, DOJ sayswww.wsmv.comexternal-linkmessage-square18fedilinkarrow-up1167arrow-down17
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minus-squareJohnDClaylinkfedilinkarrow-up31·2 months agoI guess C4 is a WMD in Nashville? With that title I thought he was using nerve gas or a dirty bomb or something.
minus-squarescops@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up25·2 months agoDunno about TN, but in NC, a Weapon of Mass Destruction is a legal term referring to anything designed to harm more than one person simultaneously. This led, for example, to a local headline about a man holding up a bank with a WMD because he used a sawn-off shotgun.
minus-squareDeceptichum@quokk.aulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·2 months agoSo the claims of WMDs in Iraq were true.
minus-squarethallamabond@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 months agoIf I throw a brick at you, it is a weapon. If I throw a brick of c4 at you… https://youtu.be/XtW6HW8jO_U?si=dSgX_COkmJ-l6t45
I guess C4 is a WMD in Nashville? With that title I thought he was using nerve gas or a dirty bomb or something.
Dunno about TN, but in NC, a Weapon of Mass Destruction is a legal term referring to anything designed to harm more than one person simultaneously.
This led, for example, to a local headline about a man holding up a bank with a WMD because he used a sawn-off shotgun.
So the claims of WMDs in Iraq were true.
If I throw a brick at you, it is a weapon.
If I throw a brick of c4 at you…
https://youtu.be/XtW6HW8jO_U?si=dSgX_COkmJ-l6t45