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...

[Timesink]

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

Timesink's Law: In times of crisis, relevant web sites will NEVER be able to handle the load.

www.law.yale.edu is dead.

[RaceBannon]

law school dining staff interviewed, thought it was elevator dropping, saw smoke from cieling, evecuated

told by two students, was explosion, saw fireball in room 120

door flew off into classroom

in enclosed section of hallway where exams were being held

very loud, felt as far as mail room on top floor

(Sounds like it was NOT mail rroom!)

[texasbluebell]

I shouldn't say AQ of course, because we don't know.

Just generic terrorism so far.

[aristeides]

It would be a lot easier to lay a bomb in a classroom in the building than in the mail room. Unless things have changed since I was a student there, anybody can enter the building. And anybody therefore could enter a classroom.

[Timesink]

Found it through Google's cache:

From the Office of the Registrar

Important Dates  (12/9/2002 as of 1:00:00 PM)
Examination Period: Monday, May 12, 2003, 8:30 a.m. through Friday, May 23, 2003, 4:30 p.m.

Argument settled.

[husky ed]

Latent defects in materials, rot, poor workmanship ...

Democratic Headquarters

[RaceBannon]

tow truck towing dodge caravan, ploice broadcast, vehicle suspicious, might just be unknown owner

security, considered high profile location

students off campus

few students on campus, ghost town now, might be reason for no injuries

Yale police run by New Haven ploice, they are securing all buildings, clearing the scene, not being done in panic, no injuries

[tuna_battle_slight_return]

"Just amazing that no one was injured in this."

We don't know if this is true.

[Sacajaweau]

Women are cats!!! I'm laughing at us "examining" these girls for what WE like or don't like. :-)

[GoLightly]

When students blew up a building in Madison to protest the Viet Nam war they targeted what they thought was an empty building & killed a janitor. Blowing up a building is a statement. Taking out people with it puts the law on your butt forever.

[Fixit]

Local (nbc30) is reporting that the bomb was in the mailroom , which is above a room (120?) in which a final was being taken. Apparently students left that room after final at about 4:30PM, bomb went off some time after that, collapsing ceiling into

(Police towing away a dodge caravan that was parked near the law school, no reason given why it is being towed. Suggested fear of a second device.)

[tuna_battle_slight_return]

"(Sounds like it was NOT mail rroom!)"

Wouldn't be surprised if this was a car bomb detonated outside of the structure itself.

[shotgun]

"Who dropped a whole truckload of fizzies into the swim meet? Who delivered the medical school cadavers to the alumni dinner? Every Halloween, the trees are filled with underwear. Every spring, the toilets explode"

I found the quote on the second link, but both of these are pretty good sites.

http://homevideo.universalstudios.com/animalhouse/index.html

http://www.acmewebpages.com/animal/

I just watched it again the other night!! It is totally an ALL TIME CLASSIC!

[Timesink]

Wouldn't be surprised if this was a car bomb detonated outside of the structure itself.

Then why is there no exploded car and no external damage?

[RaceBannon]

mayor spokesp[erson:

explosion 1 room in law school

no obvious cause

fbi st police fire on scene

cannot confirm bomb

mayor on scene

live news conference at 18:30

threats received?? not yet, no claims admitted yet

out of nowhere, shocking to city, kudos to police and firedepartment

building almost empty when occured

praise for recent drills

[LdSentinal]

It looks like another person has read Al Gore's, "Earth in the Balance."

[dead]

Taking out people with it puts the law on your butt forever.

When the law finally catches up to you, some liberal judge will go soft on you, if your bomb was a leftist political statement.

[montag813]

A Signal? To the President, or possibly to start other operations?

Possible. An astute observation. An easy "signal" to achieve.

[tuna_battle_slight_return]

"It would be a lot easier to lay a bomb in a classroom in the building than in the mail room. Unless things have changed since I was a student there, anybody can enter the building. And anybody therefore could enter a classroom."

Agreed. This is what I've been saying. My first hunch is that this was a CAR BOMB, detonated outside of the building. Second hunch is a bomb detonated inside the building (in a classroom).

[jwalsh07]

OK, thanks, now I can picture it.