Posted on 06/26/2009 1:05:06 AM PDT by Cindy
Jun 22, 2009 7:46 pm US/Eastern
"8 NYC Children Burned In Homemade Acid-Bomb Attack 2 Williamsburg Kids Hospitalized After Suffering Severe Burns To Their Eyes; Neighbors Cite Tension Between 2 Buildings"
Reporting Pablo Guzman NEW YORK (CBS)
SNIPPET: "Two children suffered serious burns and six others were injured after someone threw a bottle containing dangerous chemicals at them while they played outside over the weekend in Brooklyn.
The incident happened about 8 p.m. on Sunday at S. 8th Street in the Williamsburg section of the borough. One of the victims, 10-year-old Yaakov Frankel, along with several witnesses told police that someone ran out of a building across the street from the courtyard where children were playing and tossed the homemade device at them. An explosion that released some sort of Drano-type mix got into the eyes of Frankel and a 12-year-old girl, causing them to be hospitalized. Six other children suffered burns and were treated at the scene.
"They were playing and all of a sudden a bottle came in with liquid, and it spins around and exploded into their eyes and [onto] the clothes of the kids," said Hindy Frankel, Yaakov's mother. "Everybody ran!""
SNIPPET: "Members of the predominantly orthodox Jewish community who live on the side of S. 8th Street where the incident happened are clear about who they think was behind the attack."
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ADDING to post no. 1:
“Brooklyn kids stung by vicious ‘Drano bomb’ chemical attack by teens”
BY ERICA PEARSON, ALISON GENDAR AND SIMONE WEICHSELBAUM
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS
Tuesday, June 23rd 2009, 4:00 AM
SNIPPET: “The teenagers tossed a bottle, believed to be filled with a mix of Drano and other liquids, across South Eighth St. in Williamsburg on Sunday about 8 p.m., police and witnesses said. The stinging substance splashed several kids.
Yakov Frankel, 10, and Esther Pollak, 12, were treated at Bellevue Hospital and released after doctors tended to their burned face and eyes, family members said.”
SNIPPET: “The teens, who live just across the street, have teased the children - who are Hasidic Jews - in the past, neighbors said.
“They call it a Drano bomb,” said Pincus Frankel, whose son Yakov is now sporting a a red ring around his eye and burns on his lips from the acid.”
“They were playing and all of a sudden a bottle came in with liquid, and it spins around and exploded into their eyes and [onto] the clothes of the kids,”
This sounds a lot like a drain cleaner & aluminum special. I knew some people in high school and college that used to make them out of 2-liters for pranks. They make a hella-loud boom when the bottle goes. It may have been that the jerks who threw this one were trying to scare the kids with the noise.
Not that that would in *any* way would justify what they did, of course. This was a vicious thing to do, whatever the intent may or may not have been. They could have blinded the children, or worse. Throw the book at them (if and when they are caught).
Prayers that the kids don’t have any lingering medical issues.
ROP thugs?
When I grew up we had a neighborhood kid who made stuff like this and played with it. Eventually he got too close to one of his fire bombs and burned his own eyebrows off.
President Obama has given the ‘green light’ to the murder
of Americans.
I have NEVER been so ashamed of the USA.
So the MSM is telling me that the main ingredient in this “Drano-type mix”, which would likely be Sodium Hydroxide, is an acid. And I’m supposed to believe what they say about GW?
Never be ashamed of the USA, the greatest country in history. And you're hearing this from a foreigner.
Stupid reporters.
Prayers UP.
...oh, you meant THAT "GW"...
Cheers!
>Sounds like a neighborhood problem to me between the Latinos
>on one side of the street and the Hasidics on the other.
Note in the following excerpt from the article how quickly the police tried to dismiss that likely possibility. Just because a neighbor says there were no problems between the two communities, the attack couldn’t have been a biased one.
“Police say, however, this was not a bias incident. Over on the other side of South 8th, which is heavily Latino, a neighbor was quick to say there were no tense feelings between the two communities and that she hadn’t heard any loud noise.”
http://wcbstv.com/topstories/brooklyn.drano.bomb.2.1055132.html
BIAS INCIDENT (n) - An event that can be reported as reflecting badly on Republicans.
There’ll be a push for a ban on high capacity bottles
The headline alone tells you how stupid reporters are, you’ve already noted acid v. base, how about “homemade”? Is the headline implying they did not use “store bought” bombs?
My prayers to these kids.
What happened to diversity training in public schools?
The parent must avenge the children. Blood must be shed.
Hopefully she learned from this misplaced compassion that these illegal aliens are just animals. You wouldn't even trey to help a feral cat. It is pointless. It is the same with these creatures. Arm yourselves and just stay ready, One day you will have to cap one of them. It is inevitable.
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