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Watching explosion after explosion is a basic pleasure of videotape viewing. Those of us of a certain age remember SCTV's Blow'd 'Em Up Real Good skits. Poor Armen Keteyian found himself unable to indulge in the innocent fun of Joe Flaherty and John Candy so he had to dress up his blow'd 'em up report in a veneer of seriousness, labeling it a CBS News Investigation. According to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, a majority, some 60%, of the homemade bombs that are set off each year nationwide are triggered by teenage boys. Keteyian called today's youth "a frightening new generation of teens already moving from backyards to school yards, from vacant lots to crowded malls, armed and ticking." His evidence for such bloodcurdling fearmongering was four incidents: a school bomb that hospitalized eight students in Arizona; a North Carolina bomb that burned a girl's face; a Kansas bomb that blew up part of an apartment building; and an Ohio explosion that killed the teenage bomber, blowing his head off.
That is four incidents out of more than 2,700 detonations. Real Good
