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Originally Posted by Bracholi
I was wondering if you might be familiar with a firecracker which could blow off a persons foot?
Also the story has changed to homemade fireworks OR a home made device. Fireworks typically are launched in the air before they explode. So that leaves home made device. They then say that there is no evidence to suggest terrorism, which always makes me more suspicious because there isn't any evidence at all that says it wasn't. People heard the explosion blocks away.
Quote from the article which is also a link to it.
Sounds a lot more like a land mine than any firework/firecracker I've ever heard of.
Police also have cleared the three gents of any involvement other than as victims. Why are they always so quick to dismiss terrorism when doing so only fires up our terrorism "spidey" senses?
Another interesting article about the incident included this interesting information.
Maybe it was this? |
A few thoughts of playing with explosives. If you were going to mess around and play with explosives you would not do so in Central Park, too many people/cameras.
Folks that play with explosives usually do so in very remote places, rural areas, not in the center of a "megatropolis".
Most that play with explosives don't employ "chemicals" unless they want to die or are "very" serious about playing. Most play with tannerite and black or smokeless powder. All are easy to purchase and in most states require no license.
Anyone that "plays" with pressure devices or pressure initiated devices are out to injure or kill, not play. These are terrorist explosive devices commonly called IED's or improvised explosive devices. Firecrackers are not made to go off with mere pressure or pressure initiated, usually a fuse is lit and the pyrotechnic goes off after a controlled burning time.
Playing with IED's in the center of a megatropolis is not playing, it's terrorism. Calling such devices "firecrackers" is as criminal as employing the devices as the public is again deliberately led into a false sense of security and the islamic terrorists continue to plan and execute more attacks.
A landmine type IED is not a firecracker but a islamic terrorist weapon and if employed on the 4th of July would not raise any alarms until folks start calling for EMS.
We'll have to sit and wait for another to go off and injure or kill before the socialist/communist government of New York will actually inform the public that it was in fact a terrorist IED planted in NYC.