I would say this , because it ' s really not that difficult to make a functioning explosive , and from there the real trick is not blowing yourself up in the process . But based on the charge , possession of a hoax destructive device , and what they also said about it . It was painstakingly put together and it also had most of what you need to make a bomb , '' . He said , however , that there was no way the device could have detonated , but he didn ' t elaborate . They probably wanted it to look as real as possible , making it as close to functioning as they could without actually being functioning . <| sep |> If you don ' t like it , or just have some kind of political hang up and want to attempt to sway opinions with your keyboard in vain , then just vote down . I ' m okay with that , it ' s a vote based system . But these kinds of comments are so useless .