House Explosion in North Arlington

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Anonymous wrote:The owner of the duplex also owned a house in McLean near McLean Central Park that he apparently inherited from his father. Sold it for slightly over $1M in 2021 and it got torn down and replaced by a $3.75M McMansion that sold this summer.

Good, between this million and the land value of the Arlington duplex, there should be plenty of assets for the victim family to recover after they win their slam-dunk lawsuit against this man’s estate.

Yick

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Arlnow is reporting:

“…Arlington police then “began to deploy non-flammable, less-lethal chemical munitions” in several parts of the home they thought Yoo might be hiding, in an attempt to get him to surrender. Shortly thereafter, the house erupted in a giant fireball that sent debris soaring through the air. Some debris was found several streets away, authorities said.”

What chemicals were they pumping into the house just before it exploded?

Tear gas.

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Probably tear gas. I thought after Waco police would avoid using that. Guess not.

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Anonymous wrote:This is why I would never buy half of a duplex. Logistical nightmare.

That seems silly. So you would never buy a townhome or rowhouse? Because of a rare isolate incident with a crazy person? Do some research on the neighbors, and 99.99% of the time you will be fine. Don't buy a home adjacent to a house with covered up windows.

+1

Also, property owners are in the public record. Before making an offer, Google the people next to you to see if they post paranoid delusions.

Anyone with a mental illness should be put on a public watch-list, so home buyers can just google them, and avoid having to live near the mentally ill.

Agree.

I would not want any of those people in my neighborhood.

Do you even hear yourself? We do have something along the lines of basic civil rights left in this country. While I do agree that dangerous people should not be allowed to hurt others, I am NOT ok with the government creating watch lists of people who their neighbors have decided are a little "weird" so they must be dangerous. Was this man convicted of any crimes before yesterday? I bet not. So what are your grounds for "tracking" him? Putting crazy stuff on the internet? Half of DCUM would be on this list.

How about harassing federal officials, abusing public resources with frivolous lawsuits, and stalking/making threats against his neighbors. This wasn’t just a quirky homebody.

We should put all the mentally ill on a watchlist, so the rest of us can choose whether or not to avoid them.

We should put all of the gun owners on a watchlist so the rest of us can choose whether or not to avoid them.

YES YES YES.

Then anytime one enters somewhere ID is checked, an alert pops up that indicates this is a gun owner, just so people can heighten scrutiny around them in case they decide to resolve differences with their weapons.

Again, as a gun owner, I would be all for this, because it would be so easy to identify the potentially violent dangerous idiots who’d like make a scene when they find themselves in the presence of anyone they hate - like me.

Show yourselves by fleeing completely ordinary people in spastic terror. Let us see and appreciate how insane you are.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The owner of the duplex also owned a house in McLean near McLean Central Park that he apparently inherited from his father. Sold it for slightly over $1M in 2021 and it got torn down and replaced by a $3.75M McMansion that sold this summer.

Good, between this million and the land value of the Arlington duplex, there should be plenty of assets for the victim family to recover after they win their slam-dunk lawsuit against this man’s estate.

Sweetheart, that million dollars is long gone.

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Anonymous wrote:We live in the area and were told the suspect has tin foil covering his windows. Apparently the house was up for sale a few years ago but he also chased off potential buyers with a knife.

How the heck can someone’s mental health issues/danger to society be so obvious and yet we do nothing? Honestly this incident was a failure to this man as much as the surrounding neighbors. He clearly had paranoid delusions and was likely psychotic. Would have been better to stabilize him with medical treatment than deal with this fallout.

Talk to the ACLU and their friends. It’s virtually impossible to get an adult institutionalized and these groups have opposed even minor changes to the law that would make it slightly easier.

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Anonymous wrote:Has anyone seen the footage from YouTube where the suspect is live-commenting after the explosion? I wonder if he's still alive? Like, maybe he had some sort of remote detonation bomb.

Link??!

Here it is...

https://twitter.com/based_coach1/status/1731900923163627573?t=pq1t0qgkgfW9IXaLmdvEqA&s=19

It looks legit to me given the timeline of account creation and of his other posts. His comments have been disabled since last night.

Wow! Great grab, pp. So much revealed in the scrolling comments section. He mentioned the 7th. Other really engaged with him to get more info. God, what a struggling mind. Glad the young family is safe.

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Anonymous wrote:Probably tear gas. I thought after Waco police would avoid using that. Guess not.

I did not realize it causes explosions. Thx!

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Anonymous wrote:We live in the area and were told the suspect has tin foil covering his windows. Apparently the house was up for sale a few years ago but he also chased off potential buyers with a knife.

How the heck can someone’s mental health issues/danger to society be so obvious and yet we do nothing? Honestly this incident was a failure to this man as much as the surrounding neighbors. He clearly had paranoid delusions and was likely psychotic. Would have been better to stabilize him with medical treatment than deal with this fallout.

Talk to the ACLU and their friends. It’s virtually impossible to get an adult institutionalized and these groups have opposed even minor changes to the law that would make it slightly easier.

The ACLU was once a great American organization.

Unfortunately, the ACLU has become a sad, extremist shadow of a once great proponent of our Constitution.

At this point, I wish they would simply disappear, as they now do far more harm than good.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Probably tear gas. I thought after Waco police would avoid using that. Guess not.

I did not realize it causes explosions. Thx!

It doesn’t…they used the tear gas to try to get home to come out.

“Arlington police then “began to deploy non-flammable, less-lethal chemical munitions” in several parts of the home they thought Yoo might be hiding, in an attempt to get him to surrender.“

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Anonymous wrote:Probably tear gas. I thought after Waco police would avoid using that. Guess not.

I did not realize it causes explosions. Thx!

It doesn't, how could they release it if it could? Can you imagine what a bad actor could do in a crowd?

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Anonymous wrote:This is why I would never buy half of a duplex. Logistical nightmare.

That seems silly. So you would never buy a townhome or rowhouse? Because of a rare isolate incident with a crazy person? Do some research on the neighbors, and 99.99% of the time you will be fine. Don't buy a home adjacent to a house with covered up windows.

+1

Also, property owners are in the public record. Before making an offer, Google the people next to you to see if they post paranoid delusions.

Anyone with a mental illness should be put on a public watch-list, so home buyers can just google them, and avoid having to live near the mentally ill.

Agree.

I would not want any of those people in my neighborhood.

Do you even hear yourself? We do have something along the lines of basic civil rights left in this country. While I do agree that dangerous people should not be allowed to hurt others, I am NOT ok with the government creating watch lists of people who their neighbors have decided are a little "weird" so they must be dangerous. Was this man convicted of any crimes before yesterday? I bet not. So what are your grounds for "tracking" him? Putting crazy stuff on the internet? Half of DCUM would be on this list.

How about harassing federal officials, abusing public resources with frivolous lawsuits, and stalking/making threats against his neighbors. This wasn’t just a quirky homebody.

We should put all the mentally ill on a watchlist, so the rest of us can choose whether or not to avoid them.

We should put all of the gun owners on a watchlist so the rest of us can choose whether or not to avoid them.

YES YES YES.

Then anytime one enters somewhere ID is checked, an alert pops up that indicates this is a gun owner, just so people can heighten scrutiny around them in case they decide to resolve differences with their weapons.

Again, as a gun owner, I would be all for this, because it would be so easy to identify the potentially violent dangerous idiots who’d like make a scene when they find themselves in the presence of anyone they hate - like me.

Show yourselves by fleeing completely ordinary people in spastic terror. Let us see and appreciate how insane you are.

DP here - I know people who have moved away from insane gun owners (not all gun owners are insane, but this one was/is), and are all the better for it. Sometimes one does not want to put one's family in the target of an insane person with a gun. Sometimes part of the insanity is being fixated on innocuous things, and that fixation turns bad. Sometimes it is safer to not be on the radar of such a person. It is truly not that difficult to understand.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Probably tear gas. I thought after Waco police would avoid using that. Guess not.

I did not realize it causes explosions. Thx!

It doesn’t…they used the tear gas to try to get home to come out.

“Arlington police then “began to deploy non-flammable, less-lethal chemical munitions” in several parts of the home they thought Yoo might be hiding, in an attempt to get him to surrender.“

So, was it natural gas that caused this?

[Anonymous]

Is there any update on cause of explosion?

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Anonymous wrote:Is there any update on cause of explosion?

It was natural gas.

There is no other reason why the suspect would have been shooting off a flare gun (which shoots flaming flares) inside his own house.

This was a natural gas explosion.