For the benefit of FReepers not familiar with heavy equipment:
A Bulldozer
Front-End Loader
Backhoe
Trackhoe
Posted on 07/22/2008 5:33:59 AM PDT by SJackson
Sixteen people were wounded, one of them moderately, as a bulldozer driver went on a rampage in central Jerusalem Tuesday afternoon in an apparent attempt to recreate the terror attack in the capital earlier this month.
The vehicle reportedly left a construction site near Yemin Moshe neighborhood and set off towards Liberty Bell Park (Gan Hapa'amon), near the corner of Keren Hayesod and King David streets. It drove a distance of approximately 160 meters, attempting to overturn a bus and crashing into four other vehicles - one of which it flipped over. The man was then shot dead by a civilian and a border policeman.
The wounded were evacuated to hospitals in the capital.
Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said police sealed off possible escape routes into east Jerusalem and were searching for two suspects who fled the scene.
The attack took place in a busy part of downtown Jerusalem, several hundred meters from the luxury hotel where US presidential candidate Barack Obama is supposed to stay Tuesday night as he kicks off a visit to Israel.
The bus that was hit, No. 13, was of the same line of the one that was overturned in the previous attack.
Police close a section of the road after Tuesday's bulldozer terror attack in Jerusalem. Photo: Channel 10 "I was driving on the main road when the (construction vehicle) hit me in the rear, on the right hand side," the driver of the bus, who was not identified, told Channel 10 TV.
"After I passed him he turned round, made a U-turn and rammed the windows twice with the shovel. The third time he aimed for my head, he came up to my window and I swerved to the right, otherwise I would have gone to meet my maker," he said.
Witness Moshe Shimshi said the driver, who was wearing a large, white skullcap commonly worn by religious Muslims, slammed into the side of the bus, then sped away and went for a car.
"He didn't yell anything, he just kept ramming into cars," Shimshi said.
The driver then headed for cars waiting at a red light "and rammed into them with all his might," he added.
Channel 10 TV said a mother and her baby were wounded. Israeli rescue services said they had evacuated one person whose leg was partially severed; Israel media said he was in the car that was overturned.
"This was another attempt to murder innocent people in a senseless act of terrorism," said government spokesman Mark Regev. "All people who believe in peace and reconciliation must unequivocally condemn this attack. Unfortunately, it is clear that we as a society will have to remain vigilant against terrorism."
Minutes after the attack, the driver, wearing shorts and black shoes, was sprawled backward in the construction vehicle's cabin, his legs dangling lifelessly.
On July 2, a resident of east Jerusalem rammed a bulldozer into cars, buses and pedestrians on one of Jerusalem's busiest streets, killing three people and wounding at least 45 others - including a six-month-old baby girl - before being shot dead by security personnel.
The attack began at noon when Husam Taysir Dwayat, a 30-year-old resident of the southeast neighborhood of Sur Bahir, drove out of a nearby light rail construction site and plowed his Caterpillar vehicle into anything and anyone, first on Rehov Sarei Yisrael and then on Jaffa Road, overturning a No. 13 Egged bus, flattening half a dozen cars and leaving destruction and carnage in his wake.
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Fox and Friends covered this story this morning. Problem is, when they got around to showing the picture of the bulldozer, it was really a backhoe....otherwise known as a front end loader. :)
I’m sure, had Barak Obama had the opportunity to reason with this man beforehand, none of this would have happened.
bus no. 13.
Best part of the article. I'd like to see more "criminal shot dead by civilian" lines in our country.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Seems like it’s getting harder to smuggle weapons in, so they have to resort to other means of terrorism. The Jew-haters like to refer to construction equipment as weapons because the Israelis use them to bulldoze terrorist recruitment centers. I don’t suppose they consider them weapons when used by terrorists themselves.
“The man was then shot dead by a civilian”
Is this why leftists want to ban guns?
Yes.
This is deliberate, just as in the previous "bulldozer" attack which was also a front-end loader. It's an attempt by the MSM to associate these attacks in people's minds with the death of Rachael Corrie and subtly imply some sort of moral equivalence.
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Why don’t you Google images of backhoes and front end loaders so that you too can learn the differences.
And another statistic for civilin CCW is "racked up".
For the benefit of FReepers not familiar with heavy equipment:
A Bulldozer
Front-End Loader
Backhoe
Trackhoe
A Muslim? Nah, it's gotta be a coincidence.
So that's what that's called. The best I could come up with was "steam shovel." OK, I know I'm dating myself...
Here ya go, old-timer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLMDIDEoEVg&NR=1
Toot,toot!
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