New York Police afraid to say "IED"? What is "homemade explosive"??

7/4/16 | sff

[SoFloFreeper]

I wake up this am and see lots of nonsense about some kid stepping on a "home made explosive" in Central Park.

Gee, if that is the case, then Iraq must be FILLED with those.

Come on. Someone made an IED...an Improvised Explosive Device.

Will ANYONE in the media call the PC police out on this?

[shelterguy]

Come on, man. It is just a homemade firecracker. That’s what the local paper said it was. Just some yutes fooling around.

[gaijin]

Pearl Harbor:

Ambitious aquatic experiment.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Hindenburg: Aviation Incident

[gaijin]

Wounded Knee:

Grave army misfire(s).

[Caipirabob]

Agreed...it’s insane they won’t acknowledge this. The order comes directly from the White House.

[gaijin]

Sandy Hook:

Impish boyhood prank.

[Sir Napsalot]

According to my local news, it was left behind by a ‘firework enthusiast’.

What IED? /sarc

Those are only found in Iraq or Afghanistan, and those reports were dwindling down too.

[Paladin2]

Aren’t IED manufactured in a mosque? Islamic Explosive Device.

[ptsal]

An improved definition, for sure.

Aren’t IED manufactured in a mosque? Islamic Explosive Device.

[DouglasKC]

Hiroshima = Physics Experiment gone awry.

[DainBramage]

WW2 multinational training excercise using live ammo.

[TalBlack]

White Hispanic, Bomb Hobbiest, these are some of the new things you learn listening to the news.

[rktman]

Well, maybe, just maybe, when our troops encounter things that go BOOM in Afghanistan, placed by some youts, the powers that be just call em homemade fireworks. AND, the are NOT associated with any particular religion. Especially moose limbs.

[Enduro Guy]

Did it look like a clock?

[Nifster]

True words

[Fresh Wind]

"Clearly the work of a right-wing extremist."

[ClearCase_guy]

We are now constantly dealing with the "No true Scotsman" gambit:

"No Scotsman would ever drink Irish Whiskey!"
"I'm a Scotsman and I drink Irish Whiskey."
"No true Scotsman would ever drink Irish Whiskey!"

Terrorism? That always involves bombs, and it always takes place overseas. We have workplace violence and such, but we have no terrorism.

IED? Those are things that are buried in roads in Afghanistan. We don't have IEDs in America. Certainly not in parks. Nope. Not here. No way.

We try to ignore Reality by defining things into impossibility.

[GingisK]

It is rare that even Iraqi terrorists actually make their own explosive material. They take it from various ordnance and repackage it.

You would see an unusually high demand for nitric acid if someone were making explosive material from scratch.

[piasa]

Someone said it looked like a plastic bag.