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5/6/2009 5:20:52 PM EDT
Any of you Arizonanians know much about THIS event?  I just finished reading a new book about it and was wondering iof anyone had and firsthand experience with Cochise County during the few years this was going on.
5/6/2009 6:10:15 PM EDT
[#1]
I was there about 30 minutes after.  Vince Madrid one of my Shotokan students at the time was one of the LEO's injured.  I was teaching at the High School the crazies tried to get a car bomb into but it exploded prematurly.
5/6/2009 9:27:17 PM EDT
[#2]
Hmmm..I thought the bomb that exploded was in a van and they were going to bomb the jail to get another church member out... Was there another bomb that exploded prematurely?
5/6/2009 9:45:03 PM EDT
[#3]

I remember a pic of the "Miracle Valley Hammer Throw" on the front of the newspaper.




5/6/2009 10:10:28 PM EDT
[#4]
Way more trouble than they were worth.
5/6/2009 11:00:10 PM EDT
[#5]
ARE any of the members still living there?
5/7/2009 1:21:45 AM EDT
[#6]
They vamoosed not that long after that. That property has a long and interesting bible thumper history.
5/7/2009 7:19:30 AM EDT
[#7]
Quoted:
ARE any of the members still living there?


They all left according to the book I read. I did find a website with a new "leader" who wants to re-open things down there if they can get the $$$.
5/7/2009 8:51:40 AM EDT
[#8]
Quoted:
Quoted:
ARE any of the members still living there?


They all left according to the book I read. I did find a website with a new "leader" who wants to re-open things down there if they can get the $$$.


Another racist Black preacher from Chicago?

Those must be a dime-a-dozen up there.


5/7/2009 2:07:21 PM EDT
[#9]
It was in the van and the kid driving had just been kicked out of Buena, he was a teen ager and had the world of a teen who had been ridiculed openly by much of the student body, especially the athletes, setting off the bomb in the parking lot as students milled around after school could have killed hundreds.  We were very lucky!  You can't believe the security we had at the school after that.  In fact the site of the new school was made isolated partly because of this incident.  Interestingly, after Col Grossman's speech ti SRO's in August, security at Buena has increased 10 fold, all gates locked, all doors locked all the time, security guard on the roof, SRO with a USR leased to the SVPD for $1.00 a month.  Come visit Cochise County, peaceful since 1884.
5/7/2009 7:20:54 PM EDT
[#10]
Quoted:
.  I was teaching at the High School the crazies tried to get a car bomb into but it exploded prematurly.

Yep, dude had an A in chemistry and a F in circuitry

ST`~
5/7/2009 7:22:30 PM EDT
[#11]
Quoted:
Hmmm..I thought the bomb that exploded was in a van and they were going to bomb the jail to get another church member out... Was there another bomb that exploded prematurely?


Correct on Van
5/7/2009 8:01:35 PM EDT
[#12]
Correct on van, but since it exploded before they got to where they were going we'll never really know.  Thank God they didn't reach anyplace with people.