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Manhattan explosion

Travis

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Doesn't seem like anyone is dead at this point. Which I hope remains the case. But the mayor is saying it was intentional. Pipe bomb that didn't go off properly?
 
Actually, the pipe bomb that didn't go off properly happened earlier down the shore in NJ. So far they haven't specified what the nature of the explosive was in NY. The fact that the mayor said they felt it was intentional but also pretty quickly ruled out a connection to the NJ incident and said they didn't see it connected to terrorism so quickly leads me to believe they have some idea as to what happened in NY.
29 injured only one seriously.
 
Some kind of device or bomb exploded, apparently in a garbage dumpster, on W.23rd Street near 7th Avenue in Manhattan's Chelsea district this evening. I think there were about 25 injuries, reportedly none serious. A man I saw interviewed on local TV, who lives nearby, said there was an earsplitting explosion and when he looked out at the street he saw white smoke. No fire.
 
The pipe bomb in NJ yesterday morning, seemed to have been placed to directly effect a charity marathon for the Marine Corps. Three pipe bombs wired together but only one went off and because the race was delayed there was no one injured at that location. This one in NYC, is in a residential/commercial area, fairly low traffic with not typical terrorist type targets.
 
newyorkguy said:
Some kind of device or bomb exploded, apparently in a garbage dumpster, on W.23rd Street near 7th Avenue in Manhattan's Chelsea district this evening. I think there were about 25 injuries, reportedly none serious. A man I saw interviewed on local TV, who lives nearby, said there was an earsplitting explosion and when he looked out at the street he saw white smoke. No fire.
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I saw it reported as a "dumpster, too, when I first saw the banners on CNN this evening.

A little bit later they showed a photo.

Now, maybe it's just my construction background, but I tend to think of a dumpster as a large container, measured in multiples of cubic yards (or meters for the rest of the world), made out of heavy gauge steel and designed to be handled exclusively by large, purpose built trucks.

A bomb large enough to blow up such a dumpster and wound surrounding bystanders would be a pretty good sized one. Those things are designed to take a lot of abuse from heavy equipment and still last for decades.

This "dumpster", judging from the photo on CNN, was more along the lines of a plastic garbage bin that someone might haul out for sidewalk pick-up.



I think they might have exaggerated a bit.

Twenty nine people hurt, but apparently mostly scratches from broken glass. (Garbage can full of empty bottles?) When I first heard it reported I was thinking 'steel shrapnel'.

Still an absolutely demented and inexcusable act, but not what 'exploding dumpster' brings to mind.
 
cullennz said:
They will probably find a Facebook page of them holding sixteen zillion guns and a short video saying everything sucks
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Why not use any of those guns then?
If it's copying anything it sounds more like the Boston Marathon bombs.
 
mbp said:
Why not use any of those guns then?
If it's copying anything it sounds more like the Boston Marathon bombs.
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And a video of how to make a bomb.

Who ever it is was to wimpy to use their guns and picked the anonymous one
 
Being described as intentional but not a terrorist act - wonder what that means:confused:

Prank gone horribly wrong ?
 
Stop the presses!!! Go to 24 hour coverage!!! OMG!!! OMG!!! OMG!!!

Two homemade bombs, one found found before it went off, 28 minor injuries and maybe one more serious.

And some pipe bombs were found earlier today, only one that went off and in that case injured no one.

How many people died of gunshot wounds today? According to Google on average
More than 30 people are shot and murdered each day.
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Sigh...
 
Skeptic Ginger said:
Stop the presses!!! Go to 24 hour coverage!!! OMG!!! OMG!!! OMG!!!

Two homemade bombs, one found found before it went off, 28 minor injuries and maybe one more serious.

And some pipe bombs were found earlier today, only one that went off and in that case injured no one.

How many people died of gunshot wounds today? According to Google on average

Sigh...
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You seem puzzled that people react more strongly to a single event that kills 30 than to 30 events that kill 1 each.

How can I help you?
 
Another suspect device found. Pressure Cooker wired to a mobile phone.
 
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