This morning, I was woken up by my radio alarm clock – The story blasting through my room was that a knapsack had exploded in the Times Square subway station, shooting off firecrackers, or fireworks or something – The knapsack was unattended. Nobody was killed but an off-duty policeman was injured.
I felt this cold lump of dread in my stomach. Not just because I am in that subway station on a daily basis … but … just because. Just because. It sounded to me like a rehearsal of some kind.
But now – I cannot find reports of it ANYWHERE. Not in the New York Times, New York Post … nowhere.
Has anyone else heard anything?
Here you go
Thanks. Nothing new to report, I guess.
Someone’s idea of “joke” that is not funny, just sick?
I wonder if they’re deliberately trying to keep this quiet in the press so as not to create mass hysteria. I can’t imagine why else it’s not all over the news.
Good call on the “rehearsal” theory Red… That’s what it sounds like to me too.
Rehearsal? Possible, but why tip your hand and do it in public? Does not make a lot of sense for bad guys to do that, God forbid.
J swift – Well, the “rehearsal” could be to see how quick the response is, how ready New York cops are to fight terrorism – to test the waters, see how others respond, see if the press jumps all over it …
That was my uneasy thought about it.
You are right, could be a test.
Why test response time? Once the damage is done, who cares? The terror has happened. The death toll and injury isn’t really the point.
Which means, if someone could’ve used a huge explosive instead of this small pipe bomb, they would’ve done so and not worried about a “test run”.
Now, the plane thing the other day did sound more like a test run to me.
I friend of mine thinks that this is a tactic to support Bush, and that these sort of weird scare tactics will happen up until the election.
I think that’s a bit far-fetched, but I would rather believe that it were degenerate kids than a combat excercise. True, it tests the response time of the police in that area, but any trained soldier knows to not do anything too obvious unless it’s absolutely necessary.
Then again, I never enlisted for anything, my opinion doesn’t hold much weight in that dept.
A few things:
NY Post did have the story online, but it took a bit of searching, at least when I went looking for it. I see you have a link already, so I won’t repeat.
Response time can be key. Will the police (or whoever) get there in time to stop it? Or, more likely, a secondary bomb, timed to explode when rescue personnel go in. That’s pretty common in Israel.
Also, anarchists are planning on disrupting the Republican Convention. Two of the ways I heard of were tossing marbles on the ground to stop mounted patrols, and using small bits of gunpowder in unattended suitcases/briefcases/etc to divert sniffer dogs from real threats.