Medalion said:Wow... what an information day we live in?
Only took this long to confirm...it's a car...
Gary Whitta said:This really highlights the pointlessness of 24 hr news, MSNBC is nothing but a bunch of people telling each other that they don't know anything right now and speculating wildly.
Can you not read?Medalion said:Wow... what an information day we live in?
Only took this long to confirm...it's a car...
threenote said:
I've been here longer. Most people here know that--mods do, too. so nice try.
I don't appreciate that bastardization of my beloved avatar.Raistlin said:wE'vE coME foR yOuR dauGHteR cHuck
lunarworks said:Remember: 24 Hour News is little but infotainment nowadays. They spend more time taking about what some idiot on Twitter thinks about the situation than the situation itself.
I hate those self-righteous d-bags from ireport.com on CNN. They're only encouraging them by putting them on the air.lunarworks said:Remember: 24 Hour News is little but infotainment nowadays. They spend more time taking about what some idiot on Twitter thinks about the situation than the situation itself.
...with a bomb in it.Medalion said:Wow... what an information day we live in?
Only took this long to confirm...it's a car...
Gary Whitta said:I don't know who is worse, CNN for not covering it at all or MSNBC for round the clock coverage that has absolutely no news content. Now they are speculating about this being revenge for South Park.
it wasn't for the longest time. Pretty ridiculous.omg rite said:Hm? It's on CNN.
You mean...somebody set up us the bomb?Gary Whitta said:...with a bomb in it.
threenote said:I don't appreciate that bastardization of my beloved avatar.
threenote said:it wasn't for the longest time. Pretty ridiculous.
whatcha trying to say, pal?Raistlin said:thE ghOSts of yOur ElderS aRe nOT pLEaSEd
omg rite said:That's silly. I'd much rather see this "around the clock coverage" even if there's no new information, if not just to see the live footage of New York. Or for people like me who didn't know about this until a few minutes ago.
Deadly Cyclone said:
Obligatory.
threenote said:you fail to answer the question. Who the fuck are you?
PhoenixDark said:Car bombings, black president? I saw this shit already in season 6
threenote said:whatcha trying to say, pal?
Kentucky Derby? Mayweather vs Mosley?SnakeXs said:K, what I wanna know is they're saying it was detected at 6:30~PM. What the fuck was going on news wise between then and when this thread started?
tarius1210 said:Kentucky Derby? Mayweather vs Mosley?
The police said the explosive device involved in the Times Square blast this morning was roughly similar to the devices used in two earlier bombings at foreign consulates in Manhattan, in 2005 and 2007, Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly said at an afternoon news conference [video]. The device had been placed in an ammunition box like the kind that can be bought at a military supply store. Officials said that in todays attack, a man bundled in a gray hooded jacket or sweatshirt and wearing a backpack was seen riding a bicycle around the recruiting station and acting suspiciously moments before the explosion. Video footage from a surveillance camera showed a bicyclist dismounting, approaching the recruitment center, then returning to the bike and riding away before the explosion occurs. (See a related slide show and the latest from Fridays print edition.)
Both of those attacks were captured on video surveillance. The arc of the device with its lighted fuse was visible on the videotape. In the 2007 attack, a witness told police that a man in his 20s on a bicycle pedaled quickly away and turned south onto Park Avenue, the authorities said at the time. The bicyclist was wearing a hooded gray jacket and his face was partly covered, but the police could not say for certain that he threw the grenades. At the time of the Mexican consulate attack, Mr. Kelly, the police commissioner, described the two improvised explosives. He said they were training, or dummy, grenades perhaps purchased from a novelty shop that had been hollowed out and stuffed with gunpowder, possibly black powder, and equipped with pyrotechnic fuses. One had a smooth surface, modeled after the lemon type used in the Vietnam War, and the other was scored like the rough pineapple type used during World War II.
nytimes.comTwo dummy hand grenades that had been fashioned into crude bombs exploded outside the Mexican Consulate in Manhattan about 3:40 a.m. yesterday, the authorities said. The attack bore a striking similarity to a blast two years ago outside an office building housing the British Consulate. Nevertheless, they said the improvised explosive devices used in both cases were virtually identical. Both contained explosive powder. Both attacks occurred before dawn when there were few people on the street. And in both cases the devices were thrown against building facades, the first on March 5, 2005, at 845 Third Avenue between 51st and 52nd Streets, and yesterdays outside 27 East 39th Street near Madison Avenue, in Murray Hill.
In the 2005 explosion, surveillance videotape, along with other evidence, indicated that someone riding a bicycle had hurled a device at the building. The arc of the device with its lighted fuse can be seen on the videotape.
Mr. Kelly described the two improvised explosives as training, or dummy, grenades perhaps purchased from a novelty shop that had been hollowed out and stuffed with gunpowder, possibly black powder, and equipped with pyrotechnic fuses. One had a smooth surface, modeled after the lemon type used in the Vietnam War, and the other was scored like the rough pineapple type used during World War II.
At a second news briefing, Mr. Kelly displayed grenades similar to those used in yesterdays attack and said they could be purchased over the Internet. The devices used in 2005 were filled with a type of black powder and had M-80-type fuses.
LiK said:a real car bomb. looks like terrorists are making their move now
Damn shame if you ask me. Shit was a straight nightmare.Manos: The Hans of Fate said:Compare this to Mumbai, that situation was an information overload. Of course it hardly got covered live in the US.
Yeah, even more so considering just how much content was being made available in India.Veidt said:Damn shame if you ask me. Shit was a straight nightmare.
he's trying to say GOLFHAMthreenote said:whatcha trying to say, pal?
jamesinclair said:Alright folks, time to line up bets on who was behind this:
1-Radical islamic terrorist group (well funded)
2-Radical islamic idiot (like the underwear and shoe bombers, they excel in fail)
3-Radical conservative -> Hates the gays, liberals and foreigners (like the Michigan militia)
4-Radical conservative 2 -> Hates taxes, black people, liberals and obama (like the airplane suicide)
5-Obama, trying to take over america by setting things up (he also personally blew up the oil rig and planted fake documents at goldman)
6-Cheney, trying to distract from the gulf oil spill so we can drill baby drill
7-Suicidal high school boy who was dumped by his fat girlfriend and wants attention
8-Illegal immigrants, trying to destroy america/protest arizona law
9-Putin.
jamesinclair said:Alright folks, time to line up bets on who was behind this:
1-Radical islamic terrorist group (well funded)
2-Radical islamic idiot (like the underwear and shoe bombers, they excel in fail)
3-Radical conservative -> Hates the gays, liberals and foreigners (like the Michigan militia)
4-Radical conservative 2 -> Hates taxes, black people, liberals and obama (like the airplane suicide)
5-Obama, trying to take over america by setting things up (he also personally blew up the oil rig and planted fake documents at goldman)
6-Cheney, trying to distract from the gulf oil spill so we can drill baby drill
7-Suicidal high school boy who was dumped by his fat girlfriend and wants attention
8-Illegal immigrants, trying to destroy america/protest arizona law
9-Putin.
BenThereGamer said:The only thing that doesn't add up at this point is why it didn't go off.
jamesinclair said:Alright folks, time to line up bets on who was behind this:
1-Radical islamic terrorist group (well funded)
2-Radical islamic idiot (like the underwear and shoe bombers, they excel in fail)
3-Radical conservative -> Hates the gays, liberals and foreigners (like the Michigan militia)
4-Radical conservative 2 -> Hates taxes, black people, liberals and obama (like the airplane suicide)
5-Obama, trying to take over america by setting things up (he also personally blew up the oil rig and planted fake documents at goldman)
6-Cheney, trying to distract from the gulf oil spill so we can drill baby drill
7-Suicidal high school boy who was dumped by his fat girlfriend and wants attention
8-Illegal immigrants, trying to destroy america/protest arizona law
9-Putin.
Fixed.Lich_King said:Socialist Islamist Putin who hates the gays, liberals, foreigners, taxes, black people and obama, trying to take over america by setting things up, who was dumped by his fat girlfriend and wants attention.