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Explosive That Injured Man in New York's Central Park Likely 'an Experiment,' Cops Say
ABC News ^ | July 3, 2016 | Dean Schabner

Posted on 07/04/2016 4:36:09 AM PDT by Ketill Frostbeard

The explosive that severely injured a man in New York's Central Park today was likely "an experiment with fireworks or explosives," but did not seem like a device made deliberately to hurt anyone, officials said.

It was still not clear exactly what the explosive was, but police said they did not believe it was connected to terrorism.

Mark Torre, commanding officer of the NYPD bomb squad, added that investigators are leaning toward considering this the work of an explosive "hobbyist," an amateur or someone who knows chemistry.

It could have even been some sort of "experiment" that was not meant to explode, as it did, when stepped on, Torre said.

Three men were walking in an area of the park not far from the entrance to the Central Park Zoo when the explosion occurred, severely injuring the foot of one of them, a New York Police Department spokesperson said.

Police identified the victim as an 18-year-old, and said his friends were interviewed, but they were not suspects, nor were they injured in the explosion.

The injured man was taken to Bellevue hospital with a "possible amputation," a Fire Department of New York spokesperson said. He was in serious but stable condition, officials said early Sunday evening.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: New York; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: central; explosion; foot; park
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To: Tax-chick
... investigators are leaning toward considering this the work of an explosive “hobbyist,” an amateur or someone who knows chemistry

Grew up in the Bronx. As a kid in the fifties we would experiment by taking the powder out of ash cans (pre m-80) and pack it into larger vessels.

We were the lucky one....no parts missing. We read in the daily paper about some poor yutz who blew of his fingers-hand-foot..... Like my experiments with motorcycles in the early 70s, I wonder how I survived it intact.

21 posted on 07/04/2016 5:14:36 AM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Ketill Frostbeard
did not seem like a device made deliberately to hurt anyone, officials said....leaning toward considering this the work of an explosive "hobbyist,"

I'm not buying it. A "hobbyist" playing with his chemistry kit would more likely play in his backyard, not leave a bomb in Central Park for someone to step on.

22 posted on 07/04/2016 5:16:36 AM PDT by libertylover (The problem with Obama is not that his skin is too black, it's that his ideas are too RED.)
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To: milford421

Keep in mind who the mayor of NYC is these days.


23 posted on 07/04/2016 5:26:57 AM PDT by jazminerose (oective)
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To: Ketill Frostbeard
Move along SHEEPLE..., nothing to see here! If you saw or heard something..., it was just an illusion..., everything is under control!
24 posted on 07/04/2016 5:29:25 AM PDT by ExSES (the "bottom-line")
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To: euram
Who would just happen to leave their explosive “experiment” where someone would step on it? Sounds like the police and the politicians don’t want people to know who did it and why.

Who steps on a strange bag, if that's what the "firecracker" was in, on a path? I've never heard of "friction" setting off a "firecracker."

The only thing I believe is that the govermedia is lying, and is not competent to carry out government's basic function to protect its citizens.

We're on our own.

25 posted on 07/04/2016 5:29:42 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (If Trump loses, America dies)
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To: Vaquero

In the 70s in Queens, “Blockbusters” were common.

If it went off next to a person they could be vaporized.

You lit that thing and then ran like Jesse Owens.


26 posted on 07/04/2016 5:34:01 AM PDT by Rome2000 (SMASH THE CPUSA-SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS-CLOSE ALL MOSQUES)
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To: jazminerose

I think this guy is even worse than Dinkins....he’s definitely crazier.


27 posted on 07/04/2016 5:38:05 AM PDT by milford421 ("All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." (Edmund Burke))
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To: Sirius Lee

It was put far off the path as I understand it.


28 posted on 07/04/2016 5:38:21 AM PDT by erlayman (yw)
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To: Ketill Frostbeard

Experimenters

29 posted on 07/04/2016 5:39:33 AM PDT by MrBambaLaMamba ( Evil preaches tolerance until it is dominant, then it tries to silence good.)
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To: Ketill Frostbeard

This is the most absolutely meaningless statement in officialese.


30 posted on 07/04/2016 5:42:14 AM PDT by arthurus
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To: Caipirabob

Unfortunately, that poor boy has to live with the lie. Undoubtedly, he’ll sue the city and I don’t blame him.


31 posted on 07/04/2016 5:42:37 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: With my own people alone I should like to drive away the Muslims)
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To: Ketill Frostbeard
police said they did not believe it was connected to terrorism.

This is the most absolutely meaningless statement in officialese.

32 posted on 07/04/2016 5:43:19 AM PDT by arthurus
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To: Rome2000

Yeah blockbusters were nasty.

Tossed one behind a dumpster which had a stockade fence around it. It blew a good deal of fence out which showered cars with wood chunks all over a parking lot I was traversing to enter a bar, one 4th. I decided to not enter that bar as the patrons filed out to see what all the noise was about


33 posted on 07/04/2016 5:44:13 AM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Sirius Lee

At the height of summer, near the Fourth of July, when tourism abounds and Central Park is a mecca for both tourists and cooped-up city dwellers, we’re supposed to believe this is about firecrackers?


34 posted on 07/04/2016 5:45:36 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: With my own people alone I should like to drive away the Muslims)
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To: miss marmelstein

Sadly, yes, and it seems that the authorities will never truly engage themselves with preventing another tragedy. Perhaps we can change this come November...


35 posted on 07/04/2016 5:47:46 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: Caipirabob

They are hamstrung by pc-ism. 9/11 taught them nothing.


36 posted on 07/04/2016 5:49:39 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: With my own people alone I should like to drive away the Muslims)
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To: Sirius Lee

Govermedia....yes, sadly. And dangerously.


37 posted on 07/04/2016 6:01:22 AM PDT by citizen (ISIS: They put the IS in IS-lam.)
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To: euram
ounds like BS to me. Who would just happen to leave their explosive “experiment” where someone would step on it?

I'm not so sure. I grew up in New York City. There are just as many "mad scientist" teen age boys per capita as anywhere else. Some of the things I did when I was that age...

38 posted on 07/04/2016 6:01:59 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (I'm not a smug know-it-all; I just want you to experience epistemological closure.)
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To: miss marmelstein

He’ll sue the city/police on what grounds? How can anyone expect the city/police to keep everyone 100% safe, 100% of the time?


39 posted on 07/04/2016 6:07:29 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: Ketill Frostbeard

Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamic organizations teach in their internet instructions how to make home made IED.’s.


40 posted on 07/04/2016 6:09:34 AM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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