Explosion in Yale's mail room [Bush daughter ok]

Fox News | 5/21/03 | John Gibson

[Sparta]

John Gibson just reported an explosion occured in Yale's mail room. The floor has collapsed. Developing...

[mollynme]

I think Jenna looks like her Dad around the eyes.

[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

I was wondering the same thing. Bush was a Yalie.

Slick Willie met the Hildebeast at Yale Law School........perhaps Satan is sending out a homing call.

[aristeides]

I have taken exams in those 1st floor classrooms near the mail room. I hope nobody was taking an exam in a classroom where a bomb exploded.

[cgk]

FMC live shot also showing on-ground US Postal Inspector Police on scene now.

[mabelkitty]

That was my argument.

I think this was an inside job.

[_Jim]

     Yale's walls and floors are 3" thick oak

Latent defects in materials, rot, poor workmanship - all possible factors ...

[cgk]

Sorry... FMC=FNC.

[John H K]

Sounds like it was a pretty big explosion if all of these damage reports are correct.

Actually sounds like a bit of "initial report exagerration creep" to me.

Seems a whole floor actually didn't collapse, "wall" may have mutated into "floor" etc. And auditorium ceilings usually have flimsy acoustical tiling; some of them fall and there's an "auditorium ceiling collapse."

[tuna_battle_slight_return]

""he explosion occurred almost exactly 10 years after the Unabomber, Theodore Kaczynski, mailed a bomb to Yale that severely injured a professor in June 1993."

Initial damage assessment indicates this to be anything but a "simple" mail bomb a la Kaczynski.

[kalt]

One of the most prominent supporters of the legality of President Bush's War on Terror was Yale Law School professor Ruth Wedgwood.

[AmericanInTokyo]

!!!!!SEAL THE BORDERS!!!!

Regardless of whether al-Qaida or nutcase student.

(Ooops, but that might be politically incorrect and violate some treaty with Presidente Fox or jeopardize the Latino vote in 2004. My.)

[mass55th]

Actually, they've had Yale law students on tv saying that they ARE in the middle of exams.

Maybe the Law School semesters run later or differently than the others.

[mabelkitty]

US Postal Inspector? I see they're bringing out the Big Guns! Does this guy need the hazard pay? C'mon!

[Fixit]

NBC30's man on the scene, Derek Slap, is reporting from the incident headquarters-

• Confirmed by New Haven Police that there were no injuries.
• CT State Police confirm bomb.

[aristeides]

1930's construction. Very, very solid.

[coloradan]

(I'm actually into the second week of Sumemr classes).

You misspelled "sue-'em-more."

[cgk]

Correct - what with the building apparently built around 1920 or so? (Not sure on this, listening to Napolitano)

[JohnnyZ]

BARBARA is the one I like, not Jenna.

Barbara is the brunette.

[LauraJean]

How soon do you think the pundits will try to pin this on some white guy, probably a loner, driving a white van or panel truck. ,

[_Jim]

Completely relevant

Thank you.

'Talking up' a non-exclusive phenomonon serves only to excite those lesser-minds not fully informed on the 'commonality' of such events ...

Hell, man - we don't even know it is wasn't a structural failure yet!