but judge, the boy just likes to make bombs

[donsu]

http://www.ktok.com/cc-common/feeds/view.php?feed_id=135&feed=/local.html&instance=1&article_id=27539


OU Student Goes to Court on Bomb Accusations

University of Oklahoma student Charles Dreyling Jr., 24, was released into the custody of his parents this afternoon.
Dreyling went before US Magistrate Gary Purcell just after 3:30.
The college student was led into the courtroom by his attorney Kent Eldridge and a US Marshal. Dreyling was wearing a red jumpsuit but he was not wearing handcuffs.
Purcell questioned him at length and asked him if he understood the charges made against him.
Dreyling said ‘yes your honor’.
In a sworn affidavit Dreyling told FBI agents the device in his carry-on bag was an explosive device that he described as ‘basically a pipe bomb’, and he admitted to agents he had been making bombs since he was 14 years old.
Dreyling told agents he had learned how to make homemade explosive devices from websites such as ‘The Anarchist’s Cook Book’.
In the affidavit Dreyling explained how he built and detonated several pipe bombs in the past for ‘recreational purposes’.
The college student has received the support of former Mayor Kirk Humphries.
Humphries was in federal court today and sat in the front row with Dreyling’s parents.
KTOK asked Humphries if he had read Dreyling’s sworn affidavit.
Humphries said he had, but he believed Dreyling left the device in his bag ‘by accident’.
He also said Dreyling had just been down at Lake Eufala with the Humphries and had the pipe bomb with him, but he never detonated it and had just ‘thrown it back into his bag and forgot about it’.
It took US Magistrate Purcell just 30 minutes to decide to release Dreyling into the custody of his parents.
He also must relinquish his passport to the US Probation Office, pay a $10,000 bond, stick to a curfew of 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. and he must not visit any airports.
Dreyling’s tentative preliminary hearing is set for August 31st at 10:30 a.m.
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what kind of crazy people let their son make bombs and explode them. are they all a bunch of drunks? or is this something else

what is the matter with Magistrate Purcell? is he a ninny or just stupid or was he bribed?

buzzflash also has an article on puke Humphries

[sazemisery]

1. remember this is Oklahoma

which is right above Texas and not only do they vote RED here but they live by the "good old boy" code. His parents KNOW PEOPLE obviously.

[donco6]

2. Yes, you don't get the mayor sitting with you for naught. eom

[okieinpain]

8. you're damn right. he just a boy out to have fun. someone you could

have a beer with....

[Codeine]

3. I used to make bombs all the time.

Of course, my parents didn't know. We made pipe bombs with black powder, small bombs in film canisters, napalm bombs from gasoline jellied with styrofoam, rockets with bombs, all sorts of things.

Foolish? Yes. Criminal? Yes. Completely atypical behavior for teenage boys? Nope. Guys like to see shit blow up. :shrug: :nuke:

[lectrobyte]

9. I did too, but by the time you are a 24 yo college student getting

ready to board a plane, I'd be pretty sure not to have anything like that with me. Hey, I won't even travel with toenail clippers.

[Stand and Fight]

4. It will be interesting to see how this develops.

There has to be more to the story than this. Besides if he was visiting such websites, I am surprised that Big Brother never caught on to him. Me thinks there is something we are not being told.

[Not_Giving_Up]

5. Why is the MAYOR standing up for this kid?

Would he stand for any male of this age and say that's normal to make bombs?? You can't call it a stupid kid prank when the perp is an adult!

[jsamuel]

6. If this guy was Arab Muslim, he would already be at GITMO

5 years no trial...

PS - HE IS 24! HE IS NO BOY!

[Ysolde]

7. This is Oklahoma...

and, when you know the Mayor that "revitalized OKC", you get things. Plus, this is a white guy, not brown.

Now, as to building bombs...my pacifist husband did when he was a boy (14), but stopped before he could drive (arguably it does teach a lot about physics that is quite useful). He knew that it was dangerous and wrong.

But, why is a 24 yr-old? And, visiting those kind of web sites? Remember Timothy McVeigh? I hope there will be a huge cry of outrage in this town. After all, we lost 165 citizens to home grown terrorists and this kid sounds like he may be going down that same path. (But, of course, those kind of terrorists aren't on the watch lists. That's why anyone can visit those sites with impunity.)