DAYTONA BEACH SHORES, Fla. -- An explosion rocked two hotel guests from their bed and shattered the windows of their hotel room around 2:30am Friday.

Officers patrolling the Oceanside Inn on South Atlantic Avenue in Daytona Beach Shores heard a loud explosion. Several witnesses said the explosion came from the sundeck, located on the second floor of the hotel.

When officers first arrived, they found three safety windows that had been shattered along with a metal light pole that had been destroyed. They also noticed metal and glass debris scattered across a 100-foot area.

Surveillance video from the hotel showed three hotel guests running from the scene. The guests were identified as 21-year-old Timothy Bechtel of La grange, IL, 21-year-old Christopher Romano of Dayton, OH, and Michael Bolt, 21, also from La Grange. When officers contacted Bechtel, he was found to have a cut on his arm and he admitted to being involved in the incident.

Bechtel said Romano had detonated a partial stick of dynamite while he and Bolt acted as lookouts. A search of the room the three were staying in found no other explosives.

The three were charged with discharging a destructive device causing injury and property damage, a first degree felony. Bond was set at $20,000. Damages to the hotel were estimated at $2,000.

Suprised they didn't get hit with some terrorism charge.

Ten to one it was a flash powder based device and in absolutely no way anything related to "dynamite." Which would involve blasting caps, etc. to properly detonate.

But never you mind that the police and mass media learn everything they know about explosives from Wile E. Coyote cartoons. "If it's red and has a sparkly fuse it must be dynamite! Bugs Bunny told me so!"

Pathetic.

Plus, you think these morons could have at least had the foresight to throw the thing off the balcony rather than try to light it right there.

You may well be right that it was some sort of pyrotechnic, but all three were from the midwest, so they may have brought something HE with them. I was wondering about the cap thing myself. They'll have awhile to ponder their sins.

2000 dollars in damages though, maybe to repaint because of blood on the walls.

also its a good thing that its commercial "dynamite".
Would you rather them have it be evil "home made" flash powder? They cant do anything to the dynamite company, why give them ammunition to ban home chemistry
;)

Ha, that's a good point

If I were to be caught doing such things I'll tell them it was a commercial blasting cap that I found near a construction site. That way, they won't do much to the construction/explosives companies and there won't be any "illegal firework" investigations....

aye, thats great....in ohio, by the fucking time im ABLE to get a pyro license shit like this is going to really fuck things up for me.

but im DAMN surprised no one got a terrorism charge. i mean, a friend of mine blew off a BIG ass bomb thing (not sure what it was exactly) and knocked a two-fist sized hole in the wall. cops came and he got charged with destruction of public property and a terrorism charge. was put on probation and if he was EVER found with so much as a lighter he would be jailed

assholes....

but yea probably better they said dynamite, i mean, atleast the guys had that much of a thought to say "wait, making these things is probably more illegals than somethings already made no?"

and i agree

why the fuck DIDNT they throw it off the deck???

This Certainly Defines Kewl

this.