Was any public art targeted by any chance?
Not a big deal, but the Starbucks that was bombed is at 92nd & 3rd, which is nowhere near Times Square.
You do not talk about Project Mayhem.
To me it sounds the most probable that the bomb was abandoned. Probably it was en route to a target and the guy carrying it got spooked and dropped it off on the nearest bench.
I seem to remember that a Starbucks in NYC wanted to charge for water in emergency situations on 9-11. Strange the things that stick in your mind.
And the Mexican Consulate, bombed a few years back, is on East 39th Street. Not exactly a million miles from Times Square, but not in it, either.
We should consider the possibility that the bomber didn’t want damage, just a message. Sorta like picketing. She chose a time that no one would be around when it went off and a bomb small enough to not actually do anything dangerous. That last one, though, could be just a limit of skill or supply.
Yeah, I was kind of drawing a vauge center point rather than anything.
If this is the same as the bicycle bomber, it’s a guy.
http://scaredmonkeys.com/2008/03/06/bicycle-bomb-attack-at-nyc-time-square-military-recruiting-station/
Whoooo!!! I win a bet!
I started writing “He chose a…” and thought that was a rather unfair presumption. I wrote “He or she” but decided to bet my cubicle mate that if I wrote “she”, someone would notice enough to point it out.
I win…absolutely nothing!! But we’re going to lunch tomorrow so maybe I can twist his arm into treating.
Interestingly, I noticed it right off the bat. I think that says less about me than about the fact that the generalized masculine subject is the norm and hardly anybody except for those trying desperately to be politically correct varies the gender in the same sentence.
ETA: Upon rereading, I see it didn’t change, but it did stand out nonetheless.
I wouldn’t have said anything if I didn’t remember that the cops thought it was a guy.
They’re like the Kennedys–surviving trouble because there are so many of them.