The Lost Dutchman's Dynamite!
Posted: Jun 02 2011 12:43 am
http://www.azcentral.com/community/mesa ... 01-ON.html
And who the pumpkin left a briefcase full of dynamite in Bulldog Canyon 30+ years ago? Bizarre!
How do you get to be one of the "authorities" assigned to detonate that in the desert? Sounds fun.A 26-year-old treasure hunter thought he hit the motherlode when he found a 30- to 40-year-old briefcase in the East Valley desert Wednesday and took it home.
"He takes it home and opens it up and finds papers in there and dynamite," said Chris Hegstrom, a Maricopa County Sheriff's spokesman. "It appears to have been from the late 70s and 80s."
The 26-year-old man was treasure hunting with a metal detector near Bulldog Canyon when he came across the briefcase, Hegstrom said.
Once the case was opened, he noticed the explosives had already begun to crystallize.
"They say when it starts to crystallize, it becomes extremely volatile," Hegstrom said. "There was a safety issue there for that young man."
The man called authorities, who responded about 1 p.m. and evacuated 25 people from their homes near East University Drive and North Ellsworth Road.
Bomb Squad officers then worked to stabilize and remove the explosives, which were later safely detonated in an unspecified location in the desert.
And who the pumpkin left a briefcase full of dynamite in Bulldog Canyon 30+ years ago? Bizarre!
Wally, where were you on????????? 
