[commish]

Ah! It's the Jooooooooooooooooooos!!!!!

Now now don't jump to conclusions, he might be one of those evil illegal immigrants. Or even worse a supported of the DPW port purchase!!!!!

[null and void]

Good point.

[CedarDave]

If it's this easy to do, the terrorists wouldn't need to mess with explosives. Just leave a gas value open over the weekend and wait for the first person who shows up Monday morning to flip the switch.

[Howlin]

Heh.

[BohDaThone]

FOR THE TRULY CONSPIRACY MINDED: With reference to the site of the explosion, 34 East 62d Street, a book called "For the President's Eyes Only" by Christopher Andrew, states, at page 83:

"As Assistant Secretary of the Navy, FDR also began cultivating his own intelligence sources. Among the most prominent was multi-millionare publisher and property developer Vincent Astor. In 1927, Astor had set up an informal intelligence group known as "The Room" that met monthly in New York City in an apartment building at 34 East 62d Street with a mail drop and an unlisted telephone number.

Prominent members of Yhe Room included FDR's cousin, Kermit Roosevelt, son of President Theodore Roosevelt; Banker Winthrom W. Aldrich; Judge Frederic Kernochan; Philanthropist William Rhinelander Stewart; the assistant secretary of air F. Trubee Davison; and David Bruce, who later served in London both as wartime chief of the OSS and as postwar ambassador."

Perhaps some old explosive secrets lying around??