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Subject: "enough bombs to kill hundreds" Mon Jul 09, 2018 12:13 am
Did any one even get injured by the bombs? I mean if I remember correctly they didn't. I find that really ironic, there is alot of ironic things about the story.
I just always found it funny how they though they were gonna just blow everyone up and ended up not killing a single person with a bomb.
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Subject: Re: "enough bombs to kill hundreds" Mon Jul 09, 2018 12:49 am
Population Control wrote:
Did any one even get injured by the bombs? I mean if I remember correctly they didn't. I find that really ironic, there is alot of ironic things about the story.
I just always found it funny how they though they were gonna just blow everyone up and ended up not killing a single person with a bomb.
No-one was injured by any of the explosives Eric and Dylan carried into that school, much less killed.
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Subject: Re: "enough bombs to kill hundreds" Mon Jul 09, 2018 2:05 am
you're correct. on top of the bombs in the cafeteria...not a single one of the 99 pipe bombs injured or killed a single person. they did a a pretty bad job in terms of what they said they wanted.
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Subject: Re: "enough bombs to kill hundreds" Mon Jul 09, 2018 7:14 am
VoDKaComeHere wrote:
you're correct. on top of the bombs in the cafeteria...not a single one of the 99 pipe bombs injured or killed a single person. they did a a pretty bad job in terms of what they said they wanted.
Clearly they were overconfident in their bomb making abilities. Also I consider that as something to be thankful for.
Had the plan went exactly the way E&D had wanted, then Columbine would have been the end of hundreds of lives, and who only knows how many more injured.
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Subject: Re: "enough bombs to kill hundreds" Mon Jul 09, 2018 7:44 am
I don't think the bombs would of killed hundreds as they hoped.
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Subject: Re: "enough bombs to kill hundreds" Mon Jul 09, 2018 7:53 am
Tommy QTR wrote:
I don't think the bombs would of killed hundreds as they hoped.
I think we have discussed this somewhere on here before. Not many people think the bombs would have been powerful enough to drop the library down on to the cafeteria as Eric had envisioned.
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Subject: Re: "enough bombs to kill hundreds" Mon Jul 09, 2018 7:59 am
Their pipe bombs were shit. They would have caused more damage if they tied them to a hairspray tbh
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Subject: Re: "enough bombs to kill hundreds" Mon Jul 09, 2018 8:03 am
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Tommy QTR wrote:
I don't think the bombs would of killed hundreds as they hoped.
I think we have discussed this somewhere on here before. Not many people think the bombs would have been powerful enough to drop the library down on to the cafeteria as Eric had envisioned.
From what I can tell from the cafeteria footage when they actually caused one to explode, there was only a small fire and it seemed to be put pretty quick by the sprinkler system.
My estimates that both bombs combined would of killed 30-40 and injured 50-100.
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Maybe I'm thinking of Dylan helping build some of the pipe bombs.
Yeah I think so, the Cafeteria Bombs was Eric's plan and I don't really see Dylan helping as he really didn't care.
I think at the very least he built the pipe bomb vodkas vengeance and named it. I think Dylan did spend a bit of money on it as well on the plan. However the two lists were pretty telling Dylan wanted to get cool looking gloves and pants and not look fat. Eric actually was more tactical about it.
I do agree that it was a sign of Dylan’s depression his slacker attitude. I don’t know how anyone can argue that he wasn’t clinically depressed.
He wanted to show up that day looking like a bad ass assassin to kill and scare people and then die.
Maybe I'm thinking of Dylan helping build some of the pipe bombs.
Yeah I think so, the Cafeteria Bombs was Eric's plan and I don't really see Dylan helping as he really didn't care.
I think at the very least he built the pipe bomb vodkas vengeance and named it. I think Dylan did spend a bit of money on it as well on the plan. However the two lists were pretty telling Dylan wanted to get cool looking gloves and pants and not look fat. Eric actually was more tactical about it.
I do agree that it was a sign of Dylan’s depression his slacker attitude. I don’t know how anyone can argue that he wasn’t clinically depressed.
He wanted to show up that day looking like a bad ass assassin to kill and scare people and then die.
It would be hard to look back at Dylan during the last few months of his life and NOT say that he was indeed depressed. He had pretty much stopped taking care of personal needs, like grooming, wearing clean clothes, etc. He had also lost a significant amount of weight. I do believe his slacking was due somewhat to just not being able to motivate himself enough to care about doing certain things. He also knew that Eric was get it done regardless.
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no shit it's a good thing so the fact I'm pointing out a fact means I think it's a bad thing
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Subject: Re: "enough bombs to kill hundreds" Tue Jul 10, 2018 6:52 am
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no shit it's a good thing so the fact I'm pointing out a fact means I think it's a bad thing
Calm your waters. Apparently you took my comment in a way OTHER then how it was intended. In no way was I trying to imply you thought the bombs failing was a bad thing.
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no shit it's a good thing so the fact I'm pointing out a fact means I think it's a bad thing
Calm your waters. Apparently you took my comment in a way OTHER then how it was intended. In no way was I trying to imply you thought the bombs failing was a bad thing.
I'm not even sure who he's addressing with this comment.
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no shit it's a good thing so the fact I'm pointing out a fact means I think it's a bad thing
Calm your waters. Apparently you took my comment in a way OTHER then how it was intended. In no way was I trying to imply you thought the bombs failing was a bad thing.
I'm not even sure who he's addressing with this comment.
Pretty sure me, as I had commented on one of their previous posts.
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Subject: Re: "enough bombs to kill hundreds" Mon Mar 18, 2019 9:20 pm
That's definitely one of the phrases related to columbine that really grinds my gears (whenever you hear the media or people say that the bombs could've "killed hundreds" or "destroyed the entire school). Even if they had both gone off propane is more for making a big fireball than actually making making a large shockwave/pressure wave (which is what does most of the damage and throws the shrapnel better). Imo if they did go off they'd probably only kill a few people who were in direct contact and burn several others nearby but definitely not even close to killing dozens or hundreds of people and even less likely to cause any structural damage. Hell, Timothy McVeigh's bomb was thousands of times more powerful than E&D's and they thought they'd surpass him lol. Kinda shows how amateur they were in that aspect (bomb making). I know most people here know that but it irks me so much whenever I hear it on TV or in documentaries from supposed "experts"
*Above example with roughly the same size of propane tank used in each bomb. As you can see, it makes a big fireball but with little to no brisance or shockwave
Subject: "enough bombs to kill hundreds" 
Mon Jul 09, 2018 12:13 am
Not many people think the bombs would have been powerful enough to drop the library down on to the cafeteria as Eric had envisioned. 
