BRIEFLY `BOMB' WAS REALLY JUST FIRECRACKER.PALMDALE - The Sheriff's Department's Arson arson, at common law, the malicious and willful burning of the house of another. Originally, it was an offense against the security of habitation rather than against property rights. Explosives detail was called in to dispose of To determine the fate of; to exercise the power of control over; to fix the condition, application, employment, etc. of; to direct or assign for a use. See also: Dispose what appeared to be a homemade home·made adj. 1. Made or prepared in the home: homemade pie. 2. Made by oneself. 3. Crudely or simply made. Adj. 1. bomb in a desert area in Palmdale early Thursday morning. An informant informant Historian Medtalk A person who provides a medical history called deputies to report seeing a circular object wrapped in black tape with a fuse poking out the top in the 1600 block of East Avenue R-8 about 9 a.m. Officers inspected the object before blowing it up to dispose of it. They examined the contents and determined it to be nothing more than what they described as a ``homemade firecracker'' in a glass jar, officials said. - Daily News |
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