All the recent campus bombings reminded me of my own brush with the criminal element in college. Way back in '91, two guys I knew casually (friends of friends, we attended the same parties) figured they'd try their hand at building a pipe bomb. Having constructed one, they went out looking for a good spot to try it out. They decided on a campus police car. Bad choice. "Using explosives at an institution receiving federal funds" is a federal crime. The ringleader got 27 months, the follower got 21 months.
And, in a way, they were lucky. The campus police officer who found the bomb picked it up and moved it. It exploded shortly after he put it down. They'd have got closer to 27 years if he'd have been killed.
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