Posted on 04/05/2012 10:21:26 PM PDT by My Favorite Headache
Edited on 04/06/2012 5:12:11 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
A team of dispatchers – New York City Alerts is reporting: Brooklyn: *Bus On Fire* Box #2748. 7 Ave & 92 St. U/D; units repotring a MTA bus exploded involving 6 cars. NY01
Brooklyn: *Bus On Fire* 7 Ave & 92 St. U/D; EMS treating 7 victims, 1 in serious condition likely to die. Fire is knocked down. NY01
UPDATE: A bus and six cars were torched in the blaze.
The New York Daily News reported:
A twin-size mattress that ended up under an MTA bus is being blamed for sparking a bizarre Thursday night Brooklyn blaze that left the bus and six parked cars torched.
There's prolly a urology app for that ?
“If I was a terrorist, I’d blow it up during rush hour. Not after midnight.”
Al Queda telegraphed that it would attack NYC. This could be a trial run.
My question is, who is so stupid that they would believe them?
Thanks, but I know it was in Brooklyn. I acknowledged that back in post 15. :)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2868820/posts?page=15#15
This can only mean one thing. Homeland Security will declare all mattresses weapons of mass destruction.
streets are numbered in Brooklyn, too, but not on the same parallel
Leni
Doubt a terrorist would bother with one bus. There are many, many potential mass casualty targets in the NYC area. I hope the authorities are vigilant and have not been intimidated by the NYPD “profiling” nonsense.
I'm thinking it was an Arab spring that caused the explosion.
Even then, I can't really see how a spring would make it explode. Natural gas and propane tanks are rather thick. Even shooting at them repeatedly and puncturing the tank will cause a leak, not an explosion. To make an explosion, you'd have to completely destroy the tank and spark it at the same time. Propane tanks are often added to carbombs for this reason.
I thought New York was the city that never sleeps...
This is all making sense now!
New York City has had BIG problems with Bed bugs. Its been in the news constantly over the past 5 years or so. Thus, NewYorkers fear sleeping, loathe sleeping... it's now the City That Never Sleeps. NewYawkers are, in droves, throwing out mattresess... there are mattresses ALL over the streets, avenues, thruways, highways, byways and every this-way-that-ways. Busses are swerving out of control to avoid these mattresses... all because of Bedbugs.
So, all you Busses out there - Be cautious where you go - don't just go where your driver wants you to go... and watch out for 'dem damn mattresses!
There’s only about 250,000+ Jews living in Brooklyn.
Agreed. And Mattresses are “formulated” not to burn. Mattress fires were a big deal 20 years ago, when people were falling asleep with cigarettes.
Yes, it’s going to burn - but the material itself isn’t going to go up like flash paper.
The exhaust pipes in these buses are swept upwards, and contained a few inches (Like 12) from the lowest point of the engine bay. The oil pan is down that low, guarded by a cage to protect against real object (Like a cinder block)
A folded mattress will roll out from under the bus. In fact, a flat mattress might find some sort of catch under the bus (Like an exposed bolt) and then slide along the ground. This will be the greatest concentration of heat on the mattress. If it bunches up and rolls, it will ultimately roll out from under the bus (I’ve hit a mattress with a box truck, and it’s noticeable.)
The cars next to the bus also took quite a bit of heat damage. I’m looking at pictures now for concussion damage. I did see that one of the cars has it’s windscreen blown out from the inside. This is very strange.
The bus explosion was in Brooklyn which is one of the boroughs in New York City...there is a 92nd Street and 7th Avenue in Brooklyn not too far from me actually...it’s in the Bay Ridge/ Bensonhurst area not far from the Verazano Bridge.
The bus explosion was in Brooklyn which is one of the boroughs in New York City...there is a 92nd Street and 7th Avenue in Brooklyn not too far from me actually...it’s in the Bay Ridge/ Bensonhurst area not far from the Verazano Bridge.
Muslims celebrating Good Friday early.
Update: No one was injured.
Nothing to see here. Nothing to see at at news.google.com either. Not a word about it. If there ever were any stories about it, they've been scrubbed.
Now everyone knows why the matress label says it’s against federal law to remove it. The tag is a grenade pin, people.
ROFL
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