[isthisnickcool]

If the Sun suddenly crashed into the Earth it would be bad I bet......

[hyperpoly8]

A meteor or comet would ruin your day, too, but they are harder to stop.

[clee1]

No problem, mate. Just a bloody nuisance, what?

[Jet Jaguar]

ping

[RayChuang88]

Alas, such a scenario is not far-fetched anymore, given what happened at Oklahoma City, OK in 1995 in a truck loaded with only a few tons of a ammonium nitrate powder/motor fuel mix. Imagine a small rental truck loaded with about 10,000 lb. of a ammonium nitrate/motor fuel slurry mix going off in the middle of Times Square in New York City.

[VOA]

Shrapnel, glass and debris would be hurled up to 250 metres. The truck carrying the
bomb would break into 10,000 one-kilogram pieces. Two buildings would collapse.
The human toll: 900 dead, 9500 injured.

(thanks for posting, naturalman1975)
This article is a good reminder of THE MASSIVE and mostly UN-SUNG work done
by cops/intelligence officer throught the countries of The Coalition of The Willing.

As much of a weasel as security-guy Richard Clarke is, I shake my head in amazement
that this hasn't happened in the USA, U.K., Australia, Poland, etc.
And having been a long-term Oklahoman who know enough about the truck-bombing of
Murrah Building in Oklahoma City...I still shudder every time I go to
Los Angeles International Airport, knowing that any determined puke really could
have a decent shot at running a truck bomb into the place (given the airport's configuration).

Only the noble, day-and-night vigilance of a lot of dedicated guards keeps us from
suffering a catastrophe.

The sort of catastrophe that someone like John Forbes Kerry would just consider
a really extreme example of a "nuisance".