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May 07, 2007

BREAKING NEWS

MSNBC is reporting:

Man killed as backpack explodes in Las Vegas hotel parking garage

No story link yet.
UPDATE: Got it. Oh, man.

1 dead, 1 hurt in Las Vegas parking lot blast
Explosion occurs in parking garage behind Luxor hotel-casino

A backpack exploded in a parking garage attached to a Las Vegas hotel early Monday, killing a man who had picked it up and injuring another person, authorities said.

The man had removed the backpack from atop his car when it exploded shortly after 4 a.m. on the second floor of a parking behind the Luxor hotel-casino, said Officer Bill Cassell, a police spokesman.

The second person was taken to an area hospital.

Posted by tree hugging sister at May 7, 2007 10:34 AM

Comments

Well, that's not good. Let's see what comes out.

Posted by: Mr. Bingley at May 7, 2007 11:01 AM

The local news all have the same wording as the MSNBC report.

They're playing it very close to the chest.

Posted by: Mr. Bingley at May 7, 2007 11:12 AM

update:

Metro police said they were treating the incident as a homicide with an unusual method. They said that there was no threat to customers at the Luxor, and that the victim was the intended target.

Posted by: Mr. Bingley at May 7, 2007 11:28 AM

Unbelievable.

Posted by: tree hugging sister at May 7, 2007 12:26 PM

Well, not only did someone just kill this poor guy, but someone is also giving other people ideas. (Not original ideas, but still.)

Posted by: Nightfly at May 7, 2007 01:06 PM

My question would be: in this day and age of terrorism both international AND domestic, AND in such a high value target area as Vegas, HOW does a back-pack sitting ATOP a car all by its lone-self in the wee hours of the morning escape detection?

Posted by: tree hugging sister at May 7, 2007 01:14 PM

I'll bet Putin was behind it.

:)

Posted by: Mike Rentner at May 7, 2007 06:31 PM

No when Putin is behind it, they use a distictive poison so that everyone knows it was the KGB. Strontium and ricin being favorites. Bombs just lack style - the Bolsheviks left that stuff to the anachists.

Posted by: John at May 8, 2007 03:11 AM

And they probably couldn't find any icepicks in Vegas, anyway.

Posted by: Mr. Bingley at May 8, 2007 07:04 AM

Tea, anyone?

Posted by: tree hugging sister at May 8, 2007 11:34 AM