A man surnamed Huang (黃) was detained in Greater Kaohsiung on Wednesday for allegedly making a bomb disguised as a doll that police say he intended to give to his former girlfriend, whom he suspected of having cheated on him.
The Greater Kaohsiung Police Department’s Criminal Investigation Division said they arrived at Huang’s house with a warrant to search the premises for drugs.
When they were about to take apart a plush toy of “Stitch,” a character in Disney’s cartoon of the same name, to check it for narcotics, Huang shouted: “Don’t move, it is a bomb.”
The police said they found the doll was filled with gunpowder of the kind used in fireworks and packed with nails. They estimate that the explosion would cover a radius of between 10m and 15m.
Huang was quoted by police as saying he suspected his girlfriend of cheating on him because she had recently left him without saying anything and had not taken the doll, which was a gift from him.
According to police, Huang said he learned how to build a bomb after seeing a friend make one and conducted a successful trial detonation in an empty lot.
Police quoted him as saying he intended to give the bomb to his girlfriend and whoever she was seeing as a “parting gift.”
The police turned the doll-bomb over to the Criminal Investigation Bureau for further analysis and charged Huang with violating the Act on Controlling Guns, Ammunition and Knives (槍砲彈藥刀械管制條例) and the Narcotics Hazard Prevention Act (毒品危害防治條例).
In addition to the Stitch doll explosive, police said they found at Huang’s house a half-finished bomb, 0.6g of amphetamines and zip-bags they suspect were to be used to package the drugs.
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