As scary as the original headline is, this is the funniest thread in a while. Manholes, flames, Ralph Lauren - it's just too easy!
It just screams out for one-liners. Lololol
Actually it is the most pathetic in a while. Before anyone knew how severe the explosion was or wasn't, before anyone knew if people were killed or injured, they were rushing to pop off jokes, lacking any self-control, who are lucky that it wasn't worse lest they be immortalized as immature total a-holes. The first reaction of most normal person to a headline of an explosion in a large city is concern and shock, not wisecraccks, especially after 9/11. And spare me the total bullcrap copout line of resorting to humor to deal with grief. Not applicable in the first moments of what could be a terror act.
Compare this thread to one of the first 9/11 threads, where the only joke on the first page was #41, despite no confirming images of the severity until post #28, and no report of the 2nd plane until #46.
Starkly shows the difference between FR in 2001 and 2005.