Posted on 01/02/2009 2:38:58 PM PST by Libloather
Police investigate explosion in Starbucks in Rhode Island
The Associated Press Friday January 02, 2009, 9:22 AM
Police are investigating a small explosion that led to the evacuation of a Starbucks coffee shop in Providence, R.I.
No injuries were reported and police said the only damage was minor charring on the floor.
Investigators believe someone set off a homemade incendiary device in a plastic soda bottle as a prank Thursday night, police Maj. Thomas Oates said.
About 25 people were in the shop on the city's East Side when the explosion happened.
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Those bastads!!! lol. Seriously prayers that no one was hurt or worse. This is tragic no matter what the business.
Dang....nobody having money issues in that 'hood......LOL!
Sounds to me like the “explosion” was really just a firecracker blown off in a plastic bottle.
Ah, not unlike their coffee.
I guess somebody was pissed at the acidic, burnt, terrible tasting, overpriced, crap that Starbucks pushes!
That’s not decaf.
$1.95-$2.05 for a 22 ounce cup of coffee is hardly over priced.
Someone needs to lay off the potasium nitrate donuts...
Hope the people there are Ok.
A few years back, there was a new Starbucks going into a small neighborhood (in Portland, Oregon). Before it opened (I think) some activists (who didn’t like “big business” taking away business from small neighborhood businesses) threw a bomb into that new Starbucks...
Well.., that delayed the opening for a while, but it’s operating okay now.. :-)
I’ve had Starbucks coffee. It was OK. Overpriced, but I don’t think I’d throw a bomb at them.
:-P
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