MADISON, Wis. -- Police say a 76-year-old Madison man has been arrested after he took out an ad on Craigslist looking for someone to build him a bomb.
The man wanted to send the bomb to a Montana man who is a friend of the suspect's estranged wife. He wanted the bomb in a box and rigged to explode when opened.
An agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives called the phone number in the ad and posed as a bomb maker, according to the police report.
The man offered to pay $500 for the bomb and described how he wanted it to work.
On Monday, ATF agents and police officers delivered the fake bomb. The suspect was wearing latex gloves at the time of the arrest. He's in custody, but hasn't been formally charged.
-- Associated Press
Sometimes I feel bad for old people. Like this dude probably just found out what the Internet was and had no idea the ATF could use it against him. All he wanted to do was blow up another old dude who was probably banging his wife in Montana. Instead he has a bunch of ATF guys pulling a complicated sting operation on him. Old man is probably still confused. I bet after he was arrested he was still asking where his bomb was and asking for directions to the nearest post office. This whole story makes me like craiglist even less. If an old man can't blow up another old man via craigslist, what can he do?
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