Title says it all. Link. I’ve got a suspicion that it’s going to turn out to be related to some idiot that is losing a house to foreclosure, but who knows? Whatever the goal, you just killed two cops. Asshole.
I just can’t comprehend what thought process makes this seem like a good idea. And this happened just blocks from the credit union I work for. It jut leaves me feeling vulnerable, you know? I feel like I can defend me and mine from motives that I understand. Someone wants to rob me? They can have the money. Someone wants to steal my car? It’s insured. Someone wants to blow up my place of business? …what the hell am I supposed to do about that?
That WAS the bomb squad. One of the guys that died was a “certified hazardous device technician”. I have to believe they had a good reason for doing so. Although it seems like a bad idea at first glance. Maybe to get it inside the vault and minimize outside exposure to civilians?
While the incident was indeed horrible, it was at least good to know that the people in the bank took the threat seriously and evacuated everyone out of the area.
It is, however, a reminder that we can’t insulate ourselves from all destructive acts of others.
Jesus fucking christ I will be pissed if this turns out to be the case. We’re so fucking materialistic that a bunch of fucking sticks nailed together with a roof over them is worth 2 lives? I’d rather sleep in the woods. Fuck. Mother fucker. Selfish mother fucker, who can’t take responsibility for his own choices that got him where he is. Look at me getting all worked up over something that might not even be true.
Not wishing to berate the dead, but why move a device? Standard practise would have been I thought (from oh so many years of being rushed from bomb scares) you clear the area of anyone not supposed to be there and send in a robot.
I’d like to know that myself. It doesn’t make much sense. It may be that the officer thought it was too close to a roadway or something, and that they couldn’t guarrantee safety.
Well, as much as I despise the idea of killing innocents over any cause, it is not as if white collar criminals have their hands any less bloodied.
Just as you say two lives for boards and nails, that guy can say a little bang over his own flesh and bones thrown to the harshness of the elements for a pencil pusher getting a new car.
Is the bomber a fuckup, yes he is. Did this nonsense make sense in his mind, you bet it did.
I’ve had several bombings prevented in my neighborhood, and then they “locked down” the neighborhood. There was also a murder across the street from my apartment, and the cops went door-to-door to ask for info. “They were Armenians,” he said. Well, duh, most of us are. I’d actually been at the House of Pies at the time, and had nothing to say.
Unlikely. Bank vaults don’t generally kill cell phone reception, though it degrades. We actually keep a cell phone in our vault in case someone gets locked in.
I hadn’t heard the cell phone angle. Was this reported somewhere or just ‘word on the street?’
I am curious to know this as well. I thought they just used a robot to drop the package into a big iron tub then they take it out to a field somewhere and blow it up.
The story in the paper sounded very odd to me. Leaving some employees in the bank then taking the package inside does not sound like SOP to me. I guess we have to wait for the investigation to conclude.
