Anarchist Cookbook

[ignite ignite]

A British teenager who is accused of possessing material for terrorist purposes has appeared in court.
It is alleged he had a copy of the "Anarchists' Cookbook", containing instructions on how to make home-made explosives. The teenager faces two charges under the Terrorism Act 2000. The first charge relates to the possession of material for terrorist purposes in October last year. The second relates to the collection or possession of information useful in the preparation of an act of terrorism.


I had a friend that used to own it :-/

[Noah]

I've read it, it's mostly innocent pranks taken slightly too far, but just slightly.

Example: Fill a tennisball with strike anywhere match-heads, and then tape it back together. Throw it on some fucker.

[Jerome Scuggs]

it's an old book and half the recipes don't work and i have a friend who now fears fertilizer

[Noah]

it's an old book and half the recipes don't work and i have a friend who now fears fertilizer

Hahaha, awesome.

[Pandagirl!]

I've read it, it's mostly innocent pranks taken slightly too far, but just slightly.

Example: Fill a tennisball with strike anywhere match-heads, and then tape it back together. Throw it on some fucker.

I did that, except we threw it at a giant pumpkin. It was awesome.

[Mr. Peanuts]

Practically everyone I know who has net access has read it.

[stark]

Practically everyone I know who has net access has read it.

I read somewhere that the government edits internet websites that show how to make crystal meth so that it like blows up rather than creates the drug (making meth in general is mad dangerous, as it can produce odorless invisible toxins that are lethal).... I wouldn't doubt it they fucked with anything dangerous, such as how to make bombs (real ones, not matchstick tennisball bombs) as well.

[Jerome Scuggs]

I did that, except we threw it at a giant pumpkin. It was awesome.

you really, really need to get out

[Pandagirl!]

I was like 10.

[genocidal]

I think I still have it on my hard drive. Hopefully I don't get busted! Oh wait I'm white.

[Galleleo]

I remember when Jerome made the thread about how he and his friends made napalm and then spilled it on his friends leg or something.

[sixtoo]

coookbook was released in the 80s and was passed around bbs boards

[Jerome Scuggs]

I remember when Jerome made the thread about how he and his friends made napalm and then spilled it on his friends leg or something.

leg, hair, body, the side of a famous historical monument in my city

don't even remember how it happened, someone tripped and suddenly everything was on fire

[Bioture]

try making a sparkler bomb. sparklers. electrical tape.

My friend made one using 8 boxes of sparklers, and blew up an old washing machine in his back yard.

is there like a law somewhere that states you can't have sparklers and tape in that fashion?

[Singularity]

I read somewhere that the government edits internet websites that show how to make crystal meth so that it like blows up rather than creates the drug (making meth in general is mad dangerous, as it can produce odorless invisible toxins that are lethal).... I wouldn't doubt it they fucked with anything dangerous, such as how to make bombs (real ones, not matchstick tennisball bombs) as well.

As a postgrad chemist I can tell you most good recipes contain references to respected articles citing a specific reaction. If you know anything about organic chemistry you know most chemicals used for synthesis are dangerous in a non-laboratory setting without ventilation and fume cupboards; the stuff teachers give high school students is all relatively safe compared.

As for the possibility of stuff blowing up; if you have some basic knowledge you should see it coming beforehand, if not, stay the fuck away from such chemistry. There is a reason a lot of procedures use -70 or -20 C reaction conditions. Some fuckers might (deliberately) upload faulty or dangerous procedures, but chances of the government editing it is just nonexisting.

As far as getting arrested for possessing such material... there is a big difference between someone who is curious about the morbid and a terrorist. In the same line, possession of the know-how to make bombs isn't more dangerous than possession of a firearm to bystanders imho.