Presbyterians Schedule Saturday Night Mass…

Destruction

NEW YORK (CBS) ?
Police found an “amateurish” but potentially powerful bomb that apparently began to detonate but did not explode in a smoking sport utility vehicle in Times Square, authorities said Sunday.

Thousands of tourists were cleared from the streets for 10 hours after a T-shirt vendor alerted police to the suspicious vehicle, which contained three propane tanks, fireworks, two filled 5-gallon gasoline containers, and two clocks with batteries, electrical wire and other components, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said.

The bomb appeared to be starting to detonate but malfunctioned, top police spokesman Paul Browne told The New York Times and Wall Street Journal.

Huzzah for that shirt vendor. With how gorgeous the weather was yesterday there were many many thousands of people there in addition to the folks going to Broadway shows.

categories People, World Stuff | | datetime May 2, 2010 8:13 am

4 Responses to “Presbyterians Schedule Saturday Night Mass…”

  1. Skyler says:
    May 2, 2010 at 10:29 am

    Those darned protestants!

  2. JeffS says:
    May 2, 2010 at 11:41 am

    Apparently the bomb was near Viacom HQ.

    [sarcasm]

    Just a coincidence, I’m sure.

    [/sarcasm]

  3. Yojimbo says:
    May 2, 2010 at 4:40 pm

    I wonder how many FBI agents have been tasked on the blue rinse shops in Quincy after this.

  4. tree hugging sister says:
    May 2, 2010 at 10:10 pm

    What if they were “youths” instead?

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