Car bomb in Times Square?

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**Gwar!**

BaronIveagh wrote:
Gwar! wrote:You obviously haven't been to the good clubs then.
QFT. And also, you should watch for unexploded cigars!

Only when Bill is in town. He is a devil!

But yeah, any more news? Was it a bomb? Has it been disarmed?

**BaronIveagh**

It more or less disarmed itself, due to being shoddily made. They're looking for the suspect, who has managed to escape, thus far.

**Wrexasaur**

Last I checked they were investigating a gun locker found in the vehicle. Supposedly it may have had more explosives in it.

There was definitely what could be referred to as an explosive device, apparently some type of crude nail bomb. It seems to have been more for show than anything else.

I would wait for solid information before coming to any conclusions.

Here is a recent article from the LA times.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-newyork-car-bomb-20100503,0,3949500.story

This little bit though...

"We're taking this very seriously," Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said on CNN's "State of the Union." "We're treating it as if it could be a potential terrorist attack."

What... a car filled with explosives in Times square... seriously. What else could it be, if not freaking terrorism.

**dogma**

Interactive art?

**BaronIveagh**

That's a hell of a performance piece if it's art.

'I call it"Human: Deconstructed".

**Gwar!**

"Sir, there seems to be Russian Bombers heading towards Washington DC."

"I'm sure they are just coming over for the Superbowl."

Glad to see the US Homeland Security Hires only the best!

**Cheesecat**

Gwar! wrote:"Sir, there seems to be Russian Bombers heading towards Washington DC."

"I'm sure they are just coming over for the Superbowl."

Glad to see the US Homeland Security Hires only the best!

Why doesn't anyone take the tanker ship pilots hostage?

**BaronIveagh**

Because you want as few variables as possible. There's always the chance that they'll ground the ship, trying to 'save' people. It's best to bring your own.

that and it makes damn sure that if everything goes south, there are no witnesses.

**Fateweaver**

Wrexasaur wrote:Last I checked they were investigating a gun locker found in the vehicle. Supposedly it may have had more explosives in it.

There was definitely what could be referred to as an explosive device, apparently some type of crude nail bomb. It seems to have been more for show than anything else.

I would wait for solid information before coming to any conclusions.

Here is a recent article from the LA times.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-newyork-car-bomb-20100503,0,3949500.story

This little bit though...

"We're taking this very seriously," Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said on CNN's "State of the Union." "We're treating it as if it could be a potential terrorist attack."

What... a car filled with explosives in Times square... seriously. What else could it be, if not freaking terrorism.

Nobody has ever accused Napolitano of being a genius. LOL.

**BaronIveagh**

Fateweaver wrote:Nobody has ever accused Napolitano of being a genius. LOL.

On that, at least, we agree.

**Kilkrazy**

As the suspect is a mid-40s white male, basic racial profiling tells us he couldn't be involved in a terrorist plot.

Clearly it was a man on his way home from the DIY superstore where he had picked up some gas canisters for his barbecue, a few bags of nails to repair his garden shed, some fertilizer for the garden, and some bits of electrical equipment.

Then his car goes and breaks down in Times Square. His mobile phone batteries have run out, so he goes off to find a public phone to call the towing service.

**Frazzled**

Kilkrazy wrote:BP is making a pretty good mess of the Gulf of Mexico at the moment without any assistance from international terrorism.

Yea but they have Mother Nature on their side. You don't feth with Mother Nature. she'll hit you with a hurricane, then an earthquake, then a volcanic eruption!

**gorgon**

ShumaGorath wrote:Yes, and it's easier to pilot a plane thats already near its target and all you have to do is hit something (not land). I've played a good bit of microsoft flight simulator, I could probably glide a plane into the ground.

Fixed your typo.

**Kilkrazy**

If you are aiming for a city that's all you need.

**Soladrin**

Gwar! wrote:
Kilkrazy wrote:BP is making a pretty good mess of the Gulf of Mexico at the moment without any assistance from international terrorism.
<moar tinfoils>
Anyone else find it odd that as soon as Obama says "go drill off shore", something which is really unpoppular, that there is a massive disaster, allowing Obama to save face and stop offshore Drilling?
</moar tinfoils>

No, I think it's f-ing funny. (not the oil leak, the whole Obama owned himself part)

On a side note, at work on the radio, I heard something about Obama having an affair. Any of you heard this?

**ShumaGorath**

gorgon wrote:
ShumaGorath wrote:Yes, and it's easier to pilot a plane thats already near its target and all you have to do is hit something (not land). I've played a good bit of microsoft flight simulator, I could probably glide a plane into the ground.

Fixed your typo.

You know skyscrapers are basically sitting on the ground? I don't have to go through any flying golden rings to get to them. I won't even have to use the boost to get through.

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Soladrin wrote:
Gwar! wrote:
Kilkrazy wrote:BP is making a pretty good mess of the Gulf of Mexico at the moment without any assistance from international terrorism.
<moar tinfoils>
Anyone else find it odd that as soon as Obama says "go drill off shore", something which is really unpoppular, that there is a massive disaster, allowing Obama to save face and stop offshore Drilling?
</moar tinfoils>

No, I think it's f-ing funny. (not the oil leak, the whole Obama owned himself part)

On a side note, at work on the radio, I heard something about Obama having an affair. Any of you heard this?

Nope. You probably shouldn't listen to political radio.

**Frazzled**

I did as well, however I don't care.

**Soladrin**

I don't, it was on the most popular bs radio's news cast.

**ShumaGorath**

Barack Obama is the target of a shadowy smear campaign designed to derail his bid for the US Presidency by falsely claiming he had a close friendship with an attractive African-American female employee.
The whispers focus on a young woman who in 2004 was hired to work on his team for his bid to become a senator.
The woman was purportedly sidelined from her duties after Senator Obama’s wife, Michelle, became convinced that he had developed a personal friendship with her.
The allegations were initially circulated in August, just two weeks before the convention at which Obama finally beat his opponent for the Democratic Party nomination, Hillary Clinton.
The woman, now 33, vigorously denies the vicious and unsubstantiated gossip.
And some Washington insiders suggested that she was the victim of an 11th-hour attempt to smear Obama by die-hard Hillary supporters.
But now the rumours have resurfaced, suggesting that they may be coming from elements in the Republican Party.
According to sources interviewed by The Mail on Sunday, the respected Los Angeles Times, the tabloid Natio...

This thing? The six year previous acquaintance that was already used as a short lived smear attack in 2008?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1076695/Obama-hit-affair-smears-following-claims-attractive-aide-banned-wife.html

**Soladrin**

No clue, I just caught a whiff of it at work and was wondering if it was anything real, thus me asking here.

**ShumaGorath**

Soladrin wrote:No clue, I just caught a whiff of it at work and was wondering if it was anything real, thus me asking here.

Looks like an eleventh hour smear campaign attempt at discrediting the president (and by extension his party) before midterm elections.

**Frazzled**

Looking more like an international plot that, pardon the pun, fizzled:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/03/AR2010050300847.html?hpid%3Dtopnews&sub=AR

**Gwar!**

Frazzled wrote:Looking more like an international plot that, pardon the pun, fizzled:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/03/AR2010050300847.html?hpid%3Dtopnews&sub=AR

Ah-ha! Is funny because fizzle is other word for failed detonation!

**ShumaGorath**

In the rear of the SUV, police found a makeshift bomb made up of three tanks of propane similar to those used in backyard barbecues; two jugs of gasoline; dozens of M-88 firecrackers, which are legal for purchase in some states, and metal gun case holding 100 pounds of fertilizer that police said was incapable of exploding.

Firecrackers and fertilizer that wasn't going to explode.

A federal law enforcement official who is an expert on explosives noted that the propane tanks had not been twisted open, meaning that it would have taken longer for the fire in the car to heat up to the degree needed to ignite the fuel. Still, New York police investigators said the car bomb would have torn the car apart and caused "sizable" deaths and injuries if it had detonated.

The propane tanks wouldn't have even gone off until people had had a chance to get clear.

We're at war with fething cobra commander.

**Frazzled**

ShumaGorath wrote:
In the rear of the SUV, police found a makeshift bomb made up of three tanks of propane similar to those used in backyard barbecues; two jugs of gasoline; dozens of M-88 firecrackers, which are legal for purchase in some states, and metal gun case holding 100 pounds of fertilizer that police said was incapable of exploding.

Firecrackers and fertilizer that wasn't going to explode.

A federal law enforcement official who is an expert on explosives noted that the propane tanks had not been twisted open, meaning that it would have taken longer for the fire in the car to heat up to the degree needed to ignite the fuel. Still, New York police investigators said the car bomb would have torn the car apart and caused "sizable" deaths and injuries if it had detonated.

The propane tanks wouldn't have even gone off until people had had a chance to get clear.

We're at war with fething cobra commander.

**dogma**

Can someone shop a beard onto Cobra Commander?

**BaronIveagh**

As I said before, I love having enemies this dumb.

**ShumaGorath**

BaronIveagh wrote:As I said before, I love having enemies this dumb.

They're your enemies specifically?

**Wrexasaur**

dogma wrote:Can someone shop a beard onto Cobra Commander?

Your shop has arrived, good sir.

**dogma**

Most excellent.

Perhaps caption reading:

The Face of the Enemy