Oh it was supposed to go off, I think it just failed. Because supposedly(Now I have never been to New York so I don’t know how busy Times Square is that time of night) there were thousands of people outside..so that would have been his time to do this, but it failed, either it failed or he chickened out when he saw the cops checking out the car..Now, we have to find the guy because either he is working on his own and thought of this by himself or he is working for a much larger group
The detonator tried to off around 6:30pm so it was targeting people getting out of the Broadway show matinees.
Believe me, to make something go "BOOM" and to make damn sure it goes "BOOM" is not very hard to do.
The deal about there being smoke and a small fire that attracted attention seems suspicious. Something rigged to go boom with a detonator or blasting cap ain't going to smolder and attract attention, it will just go boom from the get-go.
I'm thinking propaganda, misdirected blame without a loss of life.....think controlled crisis.
Or what we had was Achmed who didn't know what the hell he was doing.....Thank the Lord.