It was the one place the Unabomber hit twice. Angelakos, now retired, was an electrical engineering professor. It looked like a turpentine can, something inadvertently left behind by a construction worker. It injured his right hand. Hauser was a graduate engineering student and an Air Force pilot at the time he walked into a computer lab where the bomb had been left, sitting atop some three-ring binders.
Police say it had been there for two or three days.
Hauser thought it was a file box for some other graduate student's computer cards and wondered to whom it belonged. When he picked it up, it burst four fingers off his right hand and severed arteries in his arm. By coincidence, Angelakos was down the hall, heard the explosion, and used a colleague's tie to make a tourniquet for Hauser's arm. Hauser's Air Force career was over. He still does not have full use of his right arm.