"OK. That is what I am saying: Why did they take it into the bank? Surely, surely, there are bomb 'blankets' and portable bunkers meant to isolate any damage."


          Yeah, that bothered me too. You would think the last place you would want the explosive would be inside the building.

          As far as "bomb blankets," in heavy construction we call them "blasting mats," and they're constructed out of old tires woven together. Much better than throwing bricks and glass all over town, which is what would happen by taking the thing inside.

          When we used to drill to shoot hillsides for a road or a rock pit or something, the one thing we dreaded was mud. If you got mud in the hole we used to load it with this stuff called "Special Gelatin." It came in big sticks and was about 70% nitro and it shot real fast. But in mud, even SG was kind of a washout.