Niccceeeee........

Except he should have called the cops ASAP instead of driving a potential bomb around.

curmudge:Except he should have called the cops ASAP instead of driving a potential bomb around.

Possibly. But he put himself at risk moving it to a more sparsely populated area - I think he deserves a gold-star for thinking that one out. Come on - he potentially saved a bunch of cute little kids in tutus!

George Bush hired him to do this from information from the CIA about it. See Bush does do the right thing with accurate information. Approval rating up please?

its pretty interesting it was parked near a muslim school though....

Good for him, I suppose, but I still have mixed feelings about whether or not he should be charged. I don't want people thinking they have a blank check to break the law as long as they think they're spying on/stealing from "terrorists".

Churchill2004:Good for him, I suppose, but I still have mixed feelings about whether or not he should be charged. I don't want people thinking they have a blank check to break the law as long as they think they're spying on/stealing from "terrorists".

Meh. Give him a pass this time. He'll be back in jail next week anyway. I mean, he "called a cop he knows from his run-ins with the law."

Churchill2004:Good for him, I suppose, but I still have mixed feelings about whether or not he should be charged. I don't want people thinking they have a blank check to break the law as long as they think they're spying on/stealing from "terrorists".

Unless they're a big telecommunications corporation of course.

Churchill2004:Good for him, I suppose, but I still have mixed feelings about whether or not he should be charged. I don't want people thinking they have a blank check to break the law as long as they think they're spying on/stealing from "terrorists".

If they do let it pass, he won't get it because he thought he was stealing from terrorists. He'll get it because he did steal it from terrorists. He didn't expect to be stealing from terrorists; it just worked out that way.

Anybody got this from a source other than the NY Post? Sounds like bullshiat to me.

Also from the NY Post.

Churchill2004:Good for him, I suppose, but I still have mixed feelings about whether or not he should be charged. I don't want people thinking they have a blank check to break the law as long as they think they're spying on/stealing from "terrorists".

Totally disagree. Everyone should get a free pass for stealing from terrorists.

nashBridges:
This, of course, begs the question: why the fark are the Chinese making remotely detonated car bombs in the US?

Hardcore Triads? Anti-Tibet? Anti-Falun Gong?

nashBridges:This, of course, begs the question: why the fark are the Chinese making remotely detonated car bombs in the US?

Cheap labor?

This is why we have to fight them in Iraq, so they don't come over here and do stuff.

And also, it helps to get tips from car thieves now and then.

The real question, of course, is, if this had happened in Texas, would the terrorist be able to legally shoot the guy stealing his van?

nashBridges:This, of course, begs the question: why the fark are the Chinese making remotely detonated car bombs in the US?

It costs less than making remotely detonated car bombs in China and then shipping them to the U.S.

At about 5 p.m. yesterday, an unidentified thief with a police record broke into a red van that had been parked at 53rd Street and Second Avenue in Brooklyn's Sunset Park for about a month, a source told The Post.

This van sat their for an entire month in the same spot and nobody got suspicious?

And by the way, why isn't this national news? Are we all blase about truck bombs in the post-9/11 zeitgeist, or what?

I'm still waiting for any info indicating that the van actually contained a bomb as many farkers above have somehow concluded.

Surly_Duff:curmudge:Except he should have called the cops ASAP instead of driving a potential bomb around.

Possibly. But he put himself at risk moving it to a more sparsely populated area - I think he deserves a gold-star for thinking that one out.

Or so this guy would have us believe:

Whatever, I didn't get a blast out of this article...

"filled with gas cans and Styrofoam cups containing a mysterious white substance with protruding wires and switches. " FTFA

It's not a bom it's a ________. Fill in the blank.

Killer Miller:At about 5 p.m. yesterday, an unidentified thief with a police record broke into a red van that had been parked at 53rd Street and Second Avenue in Brooklyn's Sunset Park for about a month, a source told The Post.

This van sat their for an entire month in the same spot and nobody got suspicious?

You get a good spot in Brooklyn you never give it up, families pass spots down over the generations the way some families do silverware.

What an idiot. He should have stolen the gasoline.

Surly_Duff:curmudge:Except he should have called the cops ASAP instead of driving a potential bomb around.

Possibly. But he put himself at risk moving it to a more sparsely populated area - I think he deserves a gold-star for thinking that one out. Come on - he potentially saved a bunch of cute little kids in tutus!

Not really, what if it was set to explode when moved? or worst he drove it someone else and killed instead of a few hundred but several thousands people?

Killer Miller:This van sat their for an entire month in the same spot and nobody got suspicious?

Not to mention all the Chinese Menus that it would have had on the windshield.

According to the New York Post article, reprinted at FOX, this was found in a Mazda MPV minivan, so I am calling shenanigans on anyone being able to distinguish a Mazda MPV's engine and interior from gas cans and Styrofoam cups containing a mysterious white substance with protruding wires and switches.

Overblown, overhyped story folks.

Hope they are able to locate the creators of the bomb, very scary that someone would make such a thing.

No bomb. No terrorists.

Nice, stupid guy, but no hero. Freedom reigns?

kilgorn:Whatever, I didn't get a blast out of this article...

well played, i enjoyed the cut of your jib.

beoswulf:You get a good spot in Brooklyn you never give it up, families pass spots down over the generations the way some families do silverware.

Geez, you guys don't have alternate side out there? In that time my car would have got $800 in tickets, towed off to 57th street, sold at auction and probably shipped to Brazil.

strathcona:Anybody got this from a source other than the NY Post? Sounds like bullshiat to me.

is google not working for you or are you that farking lazy?

ninjakirby:Hope they are able to locate the creators of the bomb, very scary that someone would make such a thing.

FTFA: "The street is lined with brownstones, and there's a ballet studio and a small Muslim school."

Where do you think they should start looking?

farking lazy

FTFA: "The street is lined with brownstones, and there's a ballet studio and a small Muslim school."

Muslim school science project?

Churchill2004:Good for him, I suppose, but I still have mixed feelings about whether or not he should be charged. I don't want people thinking they have a blank check to break the law as long as they think they're spying on/stealing from "terrorists".

Good point. There are probably a lot of would be criminals looking for such a loop hole to start a crime spree.

It was probably just someone hoarding gasoline who left their stale Starbucks latte's behind.

mudpants:"filled with gas cans and Styrofoam cups containing a mysterious white substance with protruding wires and switches. " FTFA

It's not a bom it's a ________. Fill in the blank.

Next gen, hi-tech, Chinese food.

Is it that hard to disarm a crude homemade bomb?

I mean, if bombs were always set up like in the movies with fake wires and pressure sensors and magic conductive C4 that also knows when it's a normal cop and when it's a movie star trying to disarm it then all bomb makers would die before they made it out of the shop.

Real bombs are basically safe under normal conditions. It's only the addition of a detonator that gets 'em going. If you think a bunch of wires in a styrefoam cup is dangerous, pull 'em out!

\this advice is for entertainment only
\\landmines often do have pressure switches.

BeerBear:Surly_Duff:curmudge:Except he should have called the cops ASAP instead of driving a potential bomb around.

Possibly. But he put himself at risk moving it to a more sparsely populated area - I think he deserves a gold-star for thinking that one out. Come on - he potentially saved a bunch of cute little kids in tutus!

Not really, what if it was set to explode when moved? or worst he drove it someone else and killed instead of a few hundred but several thousands people?

You do realize that once we start playing the "what if" game we can just say "what if" it had blown up there and it could have blown up behind Costco.

lantawa:Niccceeeee........

Aaaaand?

Nothing in the article indicates that there was an actual "terror plot." The article never gets around to mentioning what the contents of the van were actually for, nor does it conclude with anything other than "Police Commissioner Ray Kelly joined cops from the Bomb Squad and the anti-terror task force at the scene. Cops shut down three blocks."

This follow-up article indicates that the van was from a nut (hey, not a "terror plot") who's already been locked up for the last six months.

In other words, "car thief steals car bomb from convicted nutcase." Humorous, but no "Fourth of July Terror Plot" here.

Something about this article sounds bogus. Could it be all the unnamed sources? Or the reporting that some things may or may not happen according to some alleged "official" people who won't be identified.

Uh huh.

He "did the right thing" when it mattered? So theft doesn't matter anymore?

Well how the hell is McCain supposed to win now?

That thief was obviously pro-Obama

Blue Summer Union:Beoswulf

a good spot in Brooklyn

Isn't that the Gotti kid? What an idiot

LouDobbsAwaaaay:He "did the right thing" when it mattered? So theft doesn't matter anymore?

Not when you can spin a typical car theft into a "OMGWTF TERRISTS BOMB BROOKLYN!" article.

The car thief decided that going to jail for stealing a car was a hell of a lot better than going to jail for driving a car bomb. "Doing the right thing" had very little, I suspect, to do with this fool's actions. He stole a car that hasn't been moved for six months. Did anyone wonder if the timer was set for, say, a year, or is it just me?

FTFA: "The street is lined with brownstones, and there's a ballet studio and a small Muslim school."

thesubliminalman:

Muslim school science project?

beoswulf:

Where do you think they should start looking?

FAIL