Originally Posted by studentff
Who uses lighters or matches which are so 19th and 20th century? Bombs with flaming/smoking fuses are so Bugs Bunny. Sophisticated and stylish modern terrorists use electronic ignitors/detonators for their explosives.
Such detonators may be contstructed prior to deployment and concealed in ordinary electronics or constructed in the field from common and unsuspicious articles such as 9V or laptop batteries and low-resistance wire.
... except the fuses never work for Wile E. Coyote until after the Roadrunner has gone by and Wile E. picks up the bomb to see what went wrong...
Who needs matches? I prefer the magnifying glass and sunlight method myself...