Posted on 05/01/2010 7:00:18 PM PDT by Steelfish
Times Square Block Shut Down
By SEAN GARDINER and R.M. SCHNEIDERMAN
NYPD closed off streets from 42nd to 47th along Broadway in New York City. Police shut down a block in the heart of Times Square Saturday night after receiving a call about a suspicious car fire, delaying some Broadway shows by more than an hour.
The call came in just after 6:30 and as of 9 p.m., 45th Street between Seventh and Eighth avenues had not been opened. When police initially responded, they saw smoke coming out of the car but no fire.
Dustin Drankoski for the Wall Street Journal NYPD closed off streets from 42nd to 47th along Broadway in New York City. Police said a bomb squad investigation was on the scene and that the car on fire was a sport utility vehicle had license plates that didn't match the make of the car, raising suspicions.
On one of the theater district's busiest nights, some shows, including "The Lion King," were delayed by an hour or more, according to the Broadway World website.
Oprah Winfrey was in attendance of the new hit "Fela," being shown at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre on West 49th Street, and the production began on time and wasn't interrupted.
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
Nah, they were discussing Obummer’s speech at the press club shindig.
The perp running away from vehicle has already been described as “muslim” appearance?
Earlier somebody posted had Ford plates - stolen?
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
It has been on Drudge for a bit.
Right side first row.
You mean they actually reported that? Shocking.
Bush’s fault right?
ACK! Racial profiling...tsk.
Fox is live wuth it now. What time did this start? Wonder what time the thing was supposed to go off.
I read they saw a muslim guy running..don’t know if thats true or not
Seeing that photo caused me to relive 11 September 2001.
NYPD extending crime scene zone and pushing pedestrians further away from Times Square.
less than 20 seconds ago from TweetDeck
Heard this a few minutes ago on MSNBC too.
The stuff was probably in the trunk, my sister has a Nissan XTerra(2004 model) so its pretty much the same size
Americans!
Hey Hey now. don't mess with the Baptists. We get downright stubborn and mean and may just thump you upside your head with a think leather bound Bible. /s :0
Wait a minute ... I've got gasoline and gunpowder in my vehicle as well ...
Are you sure it wasn't just zombies?
The detonator tried to off around 6:30pm so it was targeting people getting out of the Broadway show matinees.
Obama just doesn’t get it..these people want to kill us, every second of everyday, they are thinking of ways to kill us, yet Obama wants to make peace with them and kiss their behinds. They want us all dead..what is so damn hard to understand
Thanks for the ping. I just pinged you to a different thread which is an excerpt of a link a FReeper FourPeas posted in this one. Figured I might as well post the link to it on this thread so people can find it, if they want.
NY’s Times Sq. evacuated after failed car bomb
[from Reuters]
FR THREAD:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2504893/posts
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