Tuesday, November 08, 2005

You Say Tomato - The BBC Reveals How To Make An American Bomb

Reporting on the French riots on last night's Ten O'Clock News, Mr Gavin Hewitt of the BBC talked of "gasoline bombs" being thrown. How, I wonder, do these differ from petrol bombs?

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

...or indeed from the Finnish Molotov Cocktail? Also, shouldn't "the authorities" be alert to a sudden rise in tampon sales to angry people who smell strongly of petrol? Or do I perhaps know too much about the manufacture of incendiary devices?

dearieme said...

1) "Petroleum", old fruit, is not petrol but crude oil.
2) The Beeb man prob said "gasoline" because the report will be sold to countries, perhaps including the USA, that say "gasoline" and cannot find reporters courageous enough to brave the wrath of the Paris suburbs. Just a guess, of course.