{"id":189233,"date":"2010-05-01T21:42:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-02T02:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/05\/01\/whiskey-tango-foxtrot-car-bomb-found-in-times-square\/"},"modified":"2010-05-01T21:42:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-02T02:42:00","slug":"whiskey-tango-foxtrot-car-bomb-found-in-times-square","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/05\/01\/whiskey-tango-foxtrot-car-bomb-found-in-times-square\/","title":{"rendered":"Whiskey Tango Foxtrot:  Car Bomb Found in Times Square"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thankfully, it did not go off, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/05\/02\/nyregion\/02timessquare.html?partner=rss&amp;emc=rss\">it was sitting there smoking away<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>The police discovered a car bomb in a smoking Nissan Pathfinder in the heart of Times Square, prompting the evacuation of thousands of tourists and theatergoers from the area on a warm and busy Saturday evening.<\/p>\n<p>There was no explosion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt appears to be a car bomb left in a Pathfinder between Seventh and Eighth\u201d Avenues on 45th Street, said Deputy Commissioner Paul J. Browne, the Police Department\u2019s chief spokesman.<\/p>\n<p>The device, he said, contained \u201cexplosive elements\u201d that included \u201cpropane tanks, some kind of powder, gasoline and a timing device.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>The explosive materials were discovered about 6:30 by a mounted police officer who saw a box with smoke pouring from it in the back of the Pathfinder, Mr. Browne said. The officer called for backup, and the Fire Department and bomb squad.<\/p>\n<p>The Pathfinder\u2019s back window was broken out, Mr. Browne said, and the police sent in a \u201crobotic device\u201d to \u201cobserve it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Browne said gunpowder had been found in the vehicle, but not a high-grade explosive. The timing device was a clock attached to wires. The gasoline was in cans and there appeared to be two or three propane tanks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Apparently, had it worked, it would have been more of a woosh (followed by a weenie roast) than a boom, but still, it&#8217;s unsettling.<\/p>\n<p>The composition was gunpowder, unclear if they mean black powder or modern smokeless powder, cans of gasoline, and propane tanks, which sounds to my, &#8220;Haven&#8217;t blown sh%$ up since I was in my teens,&#8221; mind to be a pretty amateur operation.<\/p>\n<p>Still, WTF?!?!?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thankfully, it did not go off, but it was sitting there smoking away: The police discovered a car bomb in a smoking Nissan Pathfinder in the heart of Times Square, prompting the evacuation of thousands of tourists and theatergoers from the area on a warm and busy Saturday evening. There was no explosion. \u201cIt appears &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1136,1076],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189233"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}