Failed car bomb in Times Square

NY1 radio reported that the vendor was up all night talking to the police.
 
"..the vehicle parked on 45th Street and Broadway with its engine running and hazard lights flashing..."


Look! There is bomb here! Come and see!!!
 
applecorped said:
"..the vehicle parked on 45th Street and Broadway with its engine running and hazard lights flashing..."


Look! There is bomb here! Come and see!!!
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This is New York City.

If it parked with a huge neon sign flashing "BOMB HERE!!!" and an arrow pointing to it while smoke came out of it and a timer counting down, it would at most gather a crowd of a few curiosity seekers to see if anything really happens when the red flashing timer reaches 00:00.

A few of the onlookers would probably bang on it or kick it, just to see if anything happens.

Wile E. Coyote's got nothing on the average New Yorker.
 
Skeptic said:
This is New York City.

If it parked with a huge neon sign flashing "BOMB HERE!!!" and an arrow pointing to it while smoke came out of it and a timer counting down, it would at most gather a crowd of a few curiosity seekers to see if anything really happens when the red flashing timer reaches 00:00.

A few of the onlookers would probably bang on it or kick it, just to see if anything happens.

Wile E. Coyote's got nothing on the average New Yorker.
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You know, I thought that after I posted. Whoever planted this may have thought they would attract a crowd in order to kill more but as you stated it wouldn't have worked in NY.
 
Skeptic said:
This is New York City.

If it parked with a huge neon sign flashing "BOMB HERE!!!" and an arrow pointing to it while smoke came out of it and a timer counting down, it would at most gather a crowd of a few curiosity seekers to see if anything really happens when the red flashing timer reaches 00:00.

A few of the onlookers would probably bang on it or kick it, just to see if anything happens.

Wile E. Coyote's got nothing on the average New Yorker.
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You forgot the guy yelling "BLOW UP AWREADY!!"
 
Ah, looks like we get to play an entertaining round of "Radical Islam or right-wing psycho?"

Islam nuts seem to like targeting New York, so that's the favorite coming out of the gate.

But don't rule out the tea-bagging Christian separatists. They've been riled up as of late, and the president is black, after all.

I'd say 3-2 odds on Radical Islam.
 
When Suha Arafat was with a child, the joke in Israel was that the Islamic Jihad took responsibility for the attack.
 
INRM said:
This scares me. Every crazy action of this sort will be capitalized upon for fear mongering purposes, so as to justify eroding the civil rights of Americans under the guise of keeping us safe.

INRM
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Okay. Then leave. You don't want your "civil rights eroded," then leave. Go live in Zimbabawe (sp?), Malaysia, China, or some other country that "cares" more about civil rights.
 
abenja1 said:
Okay. Then leave. You don't want your "civil rights eroded," then leave. Go live in Zimbabawe (sp?), Malaysia, China, or some other country that "cares" more about civil rights.
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Or, because it's a democracy, we could stay and effect the system in the direction we desire.

Notice you never hear anyone say, "If you don't like abortion being legal, you should just get out of the country."

The neat thing about free societies is that we don't have to agree with whatever the authorities declare is right.
 
andyandy said:
Luckily wannabe terrorists seem overblessed with ineptitude.....

We've had some spectacularly inept attempts in the UK.
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From the descriptions so far, it doesn't look like this thing would have caused much more than a car fire anyway. Propane tanks can explode, but it's not as easy to make them do it as most of the idiots improvising this stuff seem to think it is. Usually, the safety valve just dumps, which can make a pretty big fire, but no explosion.
 
Monkey Ghost said:
I think that if whoever did this had been smart, this would have been a ruse to draw in authorities to be hit by the real bomb, the bigger the body count the better.

But this person is not smart, and it shows in the amateurishness. They're dumb, and I predict they will be caught.
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It would not surprise me if, even though he switched the license plates, it will turn out that the car belonged to the perp.
 
barrymore said:
Well, I think anyone who is able to setup a large car bomb and have a reasonable chance of it going off is fairly smart. Just not smart enough to seal the deal, I guess. Nor smart enough to realize they are a scum bag.

Car bombs themselves seem like a good idea from a terrorist's perspective. Much more deadly than suicide bombers and hard to detect. Does anyone know what technology, if any, exists to protect high-traffic areas from car bombs? Clandestine cameras or detection equipment? It seems like the only way it could be prevented is through intelligence.

Times Square is usually wall-to-wall traffic even as late as 1-2 am, so, as a resident of NYC, I am interested in learning what they can do to prevent this in the future.
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Except I don't think this "car bomb" was likely to cause much more than a fire. There were no actual explosives in the thing.
 
Recently, terrorist have been less effective than school shooters.

That is, performing considerably worse than confused teenagers who base their tactics on movies and computer games.

Thankfully this seems to be another episode in the kerfuffle-Jihad.
 
Eddie Dane said:
Recently, terrorist have been less effective than school shooters.

That is, performing considerably worse than confused teenagers who base their tactics on movies and computer games.
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Unless you consider the thousands of people they very successfully kill in Iraq and Afghanistan.
 
CORed said:
Except I don't think this "car bomb" was likely to cause much more than a fire. There were no actual explosives in the thing.
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The news is saying that there was a gun locker, recently opened, in which there were several large bags. The current assumption is that it was chemical fertilizer. If that is the case, this thing could have made a VERY big boom. They are doing tests now.

Seems like it could possibly be a fertilizer bomb.
 
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