Explosion Seriously Injures Teen In Latrobe

**Sister Iroz** · January 11th, 2009, 02:37 PM

LATROBE, Pa. -- An explosion injured a teenager inside a home in Westmoreland County on Saturday afternoon.

WTAE Channel 4 Action News has learned that the blast originated from a backpack in the home on Lloyd Avenue in Latrobe.

Emergency dispatchers said the 17-year-old was doing something with the backpack when it exploded. The teen has a serious hand injury.

The Allegheny County Bomb Squad was called to the scene and continued to investigate.

Would like to hear more on this.
http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/...80/detail.html

**Pete Bondurant** · January 11th, 2009, 03:08 PM

He probably had a pipe bomb or some other such explosive device in his back-pack. What a stupid bastard. Hopefully he will have learned a valuable lesson. That lesson: when transporting explosives...make certain they are stabilised.

**Sister Iroz** · January 13th, 2009, 11:04 AM

LATROBE, Pa. -- A Westmoreland County teenager had his right hand and left leg amputated after playing with explosives, authorities said.

Wesley Kimmick, 17, of Latrobe, remains hospitalized at UPMC Presbyterian in Pittsburgh after the explosion Saturday afternoon at his grandmother's home.

"There was a quarter stick of dynamite in the house where he was staying, and he got a hold of it and it blew him up basically," said his mother, Heather Adams.

Authorities said they're not sure what exploded and are investigating.

The blast occurred in Latrobe along Lloyd Avenue around 2:30 p.m. Saturday, police said. Kimmick's uncle, Tony Adams, said Kimmick was in the bedroom when he removed the object from his backpack and it exploded unexpectedly.

Edward Adams, father of the victim, said, "If you ask him questions he'll nod his head 'yes' or 'no' because he has a tube in his mouth right now. I don't think he's aware of what happened yet."

Adams, who said he's going to find out where Wesley got the dynamite from, said investigators questioned him Monday about what he knows about the explosive device.

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**Ruby** · January 14th, 2009, 12:46 PM

Man, I hope the blast didn't destroy the Rolling Rock plant.

**Sister Iroz** · January 28th, 2009, 01:49 PM

LATROBE, Pa. -- Police said a Latrobe teenager who lost his right hand and leg in an explosion has acknowledged playing with a powerful firework, and was not targeted or threatened as he first told police.

Wesley Kimmick, 17, of Latrobe, remains hospitalized at UPMC Presbyterian in Pittsburgh after a Jan. 10 explosion at his grandmother's home.

Latrobe police said the teenager was playing with a large firecracker like an M-80 in his grandmother's house.

"There was a quarter stick of dynamite in the house where he was staying, and he got a hold of it and it blew him up basically," said his mother, Heather Adams.

The boy kept lighting and extinguishing the fuse and when it wouldn't go out, police said he put the firework between his thighs and covered it with his right hand in hopes of muffling the explosion.

Police said the boy first told them the explosive blew up in a backpack after he was the target of threats from unknown people.

http://www.wpxi.com/news/18583061/detail.html

**Dakota Valkyrie** · January 28th, 2009, 02:18 PM

Stupid kid. Stupid mom. Stupid newspaper also.

An M-80 equaling a quarter stick of dynamite is and old wives tale.

Since a true M-80 is illegal nowadays, if you buy one from a legit dealer that says that on it, is is nothing more than a marketing ploy. Those of us that remember M-80s and cherry bombs are so gullible LOL

The M-80s available on the black market are frequently made of unstable explosives. Looks like he got one of them. They don't usually explode for no dang reason. But because of that "usually", we keep all our fireworks in the back shed.

Yeah, I like to blow up shit.