LOL!...patriotic?...your way, way too kind...(no coffee this morning :)
...while I agree (mostly) w/ your comment....
Liberal Democrats, et al...are
Posted on 07/05/2008 4:43:57 AM PDT by csvset
He's a criminal, but he "did the right thing" when it mattered - alerting cops to what he feared was a terror plot the day before the Fourth of July.
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
” Mr. Tang has pleaded not guilty to the Connecticut charges and has not been charged with the bomb components found in the van. Prosecutors say he may not be charged with the current incriminating collection of explosives and crime concealing apparatus if there is a plea to the Connecticut case. “
Can’t tell if this is incredible incompetence on the part of the Legal System, incredibly bad reporting, or just caffeine deprivation on my part — but this just does not ring true....
Taking this last paragraph at face value gives rise to visions of a broom and a very ugly rug.....
Thief: In Brooklynese: I'm a thief, but I ain't a terrorist!
Very strange. It was sitting there for a month? Definitely good on the thief!
Boy ... isn't that the truth? At least it was when I left New Joisey.
Yeah, Yung was in jail for his other bomb mobile incident. I did a google on the location where the van was found. It looks like a vehicle could be parked there for a month and not attract much attention, unless you're a car thief.
I guess he didn't have anyone to pick up his car bomb for him. ;)
Tang was found sleeping in the van, parked in a preschool parking lot in Wallingford, Connecticut. Inside the van police found a black duffel bag containing what appeared to be the components of a pipe bomb; another bag containing a fake mustache, makeup, and gum remover; a digital timer and a bag containing wires and caps, authorities said. This was three days after the bombing of the tenant.
Is it normal to be held in Rhode Island when you were arrested in Connecticut? Is it because the Rhode Island facility is a federal one....or is this just shoddy reporting?
..privately operated security detention center developed and constructed for the U.S. Marshals Service, to house medium to maximum-security pre-trial adult male detainees.
Transport inmates to the Districts of Rhode Island, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont courthouses.
A pic of the perp.
He's been in jail since January when he was picked up in Connecticut. The van that was stolen in NYC, either had to have been there longer than a month, or someone did move it for him.
Some more info regarding the bombing back in 2002 is available here.
No problem. so long as he only gets to use it ONCE! Somebody, offer him a JOB.
A small muslim school.....total coincidence?
Could be. I wonder where Yang got his bomb training from? The web? Fwiw, He did bomb a Jewish guy back back in 2002. That may have been a business dispute.
> I think this tarnished patriot just earned his “Get Out Of Jail Free” card.
>> No problem. so long as he only gets to use it ONCE! Somebody, offer him a JOB.
Never implied that he should get 2 chances. He used it already when they didn’t charge him. If he wants another, then he needs to earn another.
> can’t decide if that was unbelievably brave or unbelievably stupid
I’d bet it was neither. I bet that he was already driving when he thought “What is that smell?”; and then it was too late.
Find it hard to believe that a van with mis-matched could be left on the street in Brooklyn for a month and not be covered with tickets.
Well as some parts of the country hit 100 degree temperatures and interior temperatures of cars rise much higher than that, might we soon discover some "abandoned" vehicles spontaneously combusting?
Because this suspect has been in custody for awhile already, and the car theif had been scoping the vehicle for a month without movement, it seems doubtful that there was a plan linked to July 4 (unless someone had left the vehicle in place and then RECENTLY stockpiled the bomb materials).
Out of all the bad he had done, he did something really good; possibly saving many lives.
Trusting a policeman who he had known during his criminal career enough to call him with what he had found/stolen.....amazing.
According to the actual article, it belongs to a Chinese national who is in prison right now.....
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