Pipe Bombs. Yikes.

The Washington Post recently reported that police found pipe bombs and other potentially harmful materials during a house raid in Nashville, Tenn. After recieving a tip from his estranged wife, police searched the home of William Matthews, 55. This led to the discovery of pipe bombs and a jar containing the potentially deadly poison ricin. They also found five gun silencers, a bowl containing ricin residue and bomb-making materials. It is unknown at this time what Williams intended to do with the substances, but there is an ongoing investigation. No charges have been filed yet.
Pipe bombs, if released into the public, have the capacity to leave extreme destruction in their path. On July 26, 1996 in Atlanta, Georgia, the Centennial Olympic Park Bombing took place. The right-wing extremist, Eric Robert Rudolph, was responsible for this attack during the Summer Olympics. Sometime after midnight, Rudolph planted a green backpack containing a shrapnel-laden pipe bomb underneath a bench near the base of a sound tower, then fleed the scene. At 1:20am, the bomb exploded. Two people were killed and 111 were injured by the blast.