Terror Attack Boulder

[flogger]

I'm wondering what the big guy in the grey t-shirt was screaming about in the video at the Mall. Sounded like 'don't antagonize him' while the perp was waving the spray bottles around, (I'm a little puzzled about how his homemade flamethrower even worked).

[BushMasterBoy]

From the video I saw, the guy was using a backpack worn pesticide sprayer. And it caught on fire while he was wearing it. I don't think the seals in a sprayer like that are fuel/solvent resistant.

[Oscar77]

From the video I saw, the guy was using a backpack worn pesticide sprayer. And it caught on fire while he was wearing it. I don't think the seals in a sprayer like that are fuel/solvent resistant.

Yes, which is why he ended up shirtless.
One of the videos shows him catching fire.

[clodhopper]

From the video I saw, the guy was using a backpack worn pesticide sprayer. And it caught on fire while he was wearing it. I don't think the seals in a sprayer like that are fuel/solvent resistant.

Good thing he spent a years planning this. Can you imagine how haphazard it would have been if he only a week or so to pull it together?

[O2HeN2]

I believe what we're seeing where he sets himself on fire is gasoline leaking/spraying out the neck of the Molotov bottle when he throws it.

That's what I think I see when I watch the video.

So he probably just put a strip of cloth in the neck, and when he threw it, he threw the bottle base first and the gasoline sprayed out of the neck and ignited.

O2

[theGinsue]

I believe what we're seeing where he sets himself on fire is gasoline leaking/spraying out the neck of the Molotov bottle when he throws it.

That's what I think I see when I watch the video.

So he probably just put a strip of cloth in the neck, and when he threw it, he threw the bottle base first and the gasoline sprayed out of the neck and ignited.

O2

That's what it looked like to me too.

Let's just say I think we were lucky he was an incompetent bad guy. Had he known how to put together a better Molotov cocktail, many more people could have been hurt and likely would have had immediate deaths.

[FoxtArt]

FTR colorado has an affirmative defense (e.g. lawful use of deadly physical force) for imminent belief in felony arson.

[O2HeN2]

FTR colorado has an affirmative defense (e.g. lawful use of deadly physical force) for imminent belief in felony arson.

You're late to the party. See reply #37.

The conclusion is that the section is only applicable if it's arson against structures. For arson against people, normal self-defense laws apply.

O2

[BushMasterBoy]

[Doc45]

The elderly victim passed, 2 murder charges added. Hope this dirtbag rots in hell and never sees his 72 virgins instead that he gets one big prison husband.