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[DataGhost]

What? Please elaborate. I'm confused, thread title says no second explosive.

https://twitter.com/dhancock110/status/777373585220464641

There is a second explosive that's being moved

 

[JHoNNy1OoO]

What? Please elaborate. I'm confused, thread title says no second explosive.

There is a pressure cooker that is duct taped shut that they are looking at.

 

[The Argus]

I just got the emergency alert on my phone telling residents to stay away from the windows on 27th between 6th and 7th.

Same. We had a guy on call tonight at my company's HQ directly across the street from FIT. He finally chimed into our Slack feed letting us know he's back home. Ugh, I really hope this isn't the start of a new wave of NYC/East Coast attacks.

 

[Mully]

What? Please elaborate. I'm confused, thread title says no second explosive.

There is now a confirmed second device (officials are unsure it's an explosive) on 27th and 7th.

 

[Tarkus]

Far-right/islamophobe Twitter is already going nuts at the news of the pressure cooker.

Definitely nothing to be worried about, huh?

 

[xkramz]

If I stayed 15 mnts later at work like i was scheduled. Thst could had been me!! Holy shit man. I passed through there daily. I work a block away.

 

[DataGhost]

On the radio, there may be a suspicious third package / bag.

 

[okno]

On the radio, there may be a suspicious third package / bag.

Did they make any mention on where?

 

[chadskin]

I hope law enforcement releases pictures of that thing(before it was neutralized) sooner, rather than later.

Edit: Pictures of the Pressure Cooker on CNN. That thing looks sketchy as hell.

via https://twitter.com/NYCityAlerts/status/777365213914001409

 

[Bam Bam Baklava]

On the radio, there may be a suspicious third package / bag.

Something tells me we're going to be seeing lots of suspicious objects in the next few days as people are on edge there.

 

[DataGhost]

Did they make any mention on where?

Didn't quite catch it.

 

[Count Dookkake]

via https://twitter.com/NYCityAlerts/status/777365213914001409

Looks like a clock that a young inventor might whip up.

 

[radios shipping overview]

Definitely nothing to be worried about, huh?

Until we know more about the situation, it's best to hold on and wait for information, rather than to jump to conclusions.

 

[MHWilliams]

Looks like a clock that a young inventor might whip up.

I'm going to assume this is not a reference to a past news story, because if it was, you'd be on thin ice.

 

[Gordon Shumway]

Looks like a clock that a young inventor might whip up.

Seriously?

 

[Quote]

I'm going to assume this is not a reference to a past news story, because if it was, you'd be on thin ice.

I read it as sarcasm, as in, the clock and this are obviously different? But I did do a double take.

Edit: oh.

 

[Count Dookkake]

I'm going to assume this is not a reference to a past news story, because if it was, you'd be on thin ice.

Oh, don't get me wrong. It is definitely a reference to a past news story. It's hard to look at cobbled together bits and not get a funny feeling. I don't envy anyone who has to make such calls under pressure.

 

[DataGhost]

Damn, after these two, suspicious packages are being reported in different locations. It's kind of scary not knowing whether it's the paranoia of being cautious or actually being real.

 

[Subpar Scrub]

Looks like a clock that a young inventor might whip up.

Okay, the ridiculousness of your joke made me chuckle lol.

That thing looks sketchy AF. Do you think they'll use a robot to move it or something?

 

[Quote]

Okay, the ridiculousness of your joke made me chuckle lol.

That thing looks sketchy AF. Do you think they'll use a robot to move it or something?

I just watch a bomb robot put something in the back of a weird trailer, so I think it has been moved?

https://www.periscope.tv/w/1MYxNEyvVgbJw

 

[Subpar Scrub]

I just watch a bomb robot put something in the back of a weird trailer, so I think it has been moved?

https://www.periscope.tv/w/1MYxNEyvVgbJw

Yeah I was trying to edit my post and my phone died, I saw the update after I posted it lol.

Thanks anyway.

 

[Lyn]

Wife's friend on Facebook is hearing reports on their local police scanner in MN about a mall/Target store being evacuated by police.

Didn't want to start a thread for something that may be nothing, but wanted to give a head's up.

Just saw news about this and remembered your post. Seems like people were attacked there tonight as well. This is getting a bit nuts. It still could be random, but if it is related, why today and at such late hours?

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/police-respond-report-shooting-stabbing-mall-42167457

At least eight people were taken to a hospital with injuries after a stabbing attack at a Minnesota shopping mall that ended with the suspected attacker, who reportedly made references to Allah, shot dead by an off-duty police officer, authorities said.

 

[Kibbles]

Just saw news about this and remembered your post. Seems like people were attacked there tonight as well. This is getting a bit nuts tonight.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/police-respond-report-shooting-stabbing-mall-42167457

They were just talking a out this on CNN, said the person was asking people if they were muslim before he went on the stabbing spree....

 

[victreeb3l]

Just saw news about this and remembered your post. Seems like people were attacked there tonight as well. This is getting a bit nuts. It still could be random, but if it is related, why today and at such late hours?

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/police-respond-report-shooting-stabbing-mall-42167457

Thats awful. So much shit in one day, jeez.

 

[Socreges]

Was on 7th and 13th or so. Had no idea there was an explosion. First day ever in New York and I'm blocks away from something like that. Glad no one was killed

 

[benjipwns]

They were just talking a out this on CNN, said the person was asking people if they were muslim before he went on the stabbing spree....

They were doing a form of this in that one shopping mall attack in Africa, and I always wondered, that time it was like 50 people or something more insane, why after the first ten or so people kept giving the clearly wrong answers.

Though in that case I think there were some suggestions that the attackers were not exactly adhering to the "rules of the game" as strictly as they should have been.

Spoiler

This is a dumb post.

 

[GaimeGuy]

Looks like a clock that a young inventor might whip up.

I guess even the count has his off days

 

[MetatronM]

So far everybody else I've talked to here in the city has been pretty nonplussed by this. You get pretty desensitized to crazy shit living here.

That second device was one block over from my office, by the way. It's a weird block to put an explosive, honestly. And one block up is a major police station.

 

[Joeytj]

I took a peek at the #Chelsea trend on Twitter. Big mistake.

Hillary just gave a quick press conference on her plane right now about the explosion, went well, bla bla. But the Alt-right and Trump supporters on Twitter and unhinged... more than usual.

They desperately wishing for this to be some sort of Muslim terrorist attack and even mocking Hillary for being tired in that press conference.

 

[PBY]

What happened

And I live here.

 

[Besthelboy]

Looks like a clock that a young inventor might whip up.

Wow

 

[davepoobond]

Amazed that no one was killed. Hope it stays that way.


Sounds pretty crazy, hopefully they disarm the cooker and investigate it

 

[Makoto-Yuki]

hope everyone hurt is OK. how can they say this isn't terrorism?

 

[Media]

hope everyone hurt is OK. how can they say this isn't terrorism?

Terrorism has a pretty specific definition. So far, this doesn't fit that specific definition. The motive really matters in these cases, and we don't know it yet.

That said, it likely will end up being defined as that.

 

[Morrigan Stark]

Yeah, this morning.
FBI doesn't know who set off Seaside Park bomb … Urge public: ‘Talk to us'

Just like the one in NJ.

Whoa, shit, that seems really serious.

 

[Joyful]

hope they find footage of whoever planted this shit and hunt em down
glad no one was killed (afaik)

 

[Azoor]

Just heard about this, glad no one died.

 

[Verelios]

Holy shit, thank God I stayed home today, my heart goes out to anyone injured

 

[Fermbiz]

I work on 42nd and 8th... Time Square, Port Authority, heavy tourist area and a bunch of crazy homeless people. I always felt that area is a giant bullseye for these kind of attacks.

Not looking forward to going to work Monday...

 

[Valkyria]

Well I'm going to New York next week on vacation. I hope this nothing serious.

 

[slider]

Device and location, I guess, mean it could've been a lot worse. So grateful for small mercies. It is a strange location from what little I know of NYC.

 

[NEO0MJ]

Well I'm going to New York next week on vacation. I hope this nothing serious.

Supposedly tourist attractions are at their safest after such attacks due to the amped up security.

 

[samn]

I'm going to assume this is not a reference to a past news story, because if it was, you'd be on thin ice.

Oh for heaven's sake, clearly a joke that targets the antagonist of the referenced news story i.e. the people that thought the clock was a bomb.

 

[Valkyria]

Supposedly tourist attractions are at their safest after such attacks due to the amped up security.

Thanks! Yeah I hope so, I know you people take security seriously.

 

[Rabbi_Vole]

I work on 42nd and 8th... Time Square, Port Authority, heavy tourist area and a bunch of crazy homeless people. I always felt that area is a giant bullseye for these kind of attacks.

Not looking forward to going to work Monday...

Wasn't there a failed car bombing there years ago?

 

[Marvel]

Damn...

 

[Chittagong]

So what is the rationale of calling a trash bin bomb "deliberate" and not "terrorism"?

 

[benjipwns]

So what is the rationale of calling a trash bin bomb "deliberate" and not "terrorism"?

Optics.

Spoiler

I can hear that cringing!

 

[harriet the spy]

Exactly the same bombs we had in France when I was a kid. Yeesh.

 

[Keasar]

Woke up and saw the news, glad to hear nobody got killed and according to Swedish news one was seriously injured, hope that person recovers.