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 ...
Saying the vehicle is still volatile.
While the storm clouds gather far across the sea,
Let us swear allegiance to a land that’s free.
Let us all be grateful for a land so fair,
As we raise our voices in a solemn prayer:
God bless America, land that I love,
Stand beside her and guide her
Through the night with a light from above.
From the mountains, to the prairies,
To the oceans white with foam,
God bless America,
My home sweet home.
:-D They won’t thump me, I’m a Baptist, too!
So this all happened at 6:30? I had no idea since it didn’t start getting reported til hours later so I thought it just happened
Secondary device? Nails and other shrapnel found in the original car bomb?
Yes, indeed. Count our blessings!!!
Doesn’t get it? ... Hell, this bastard doesn’t care! So long as al qaeda can’t get to him, he could care less if they slaughter Americans. Amd if they manage to slaughter white Americans, so much the better! Barry Soetoro is affirmative action run amok.
Their motto is if they don’t kill you, they can at least maim you for the rest of your life.
Yep, he was yucking it up at the DC correspondents dinner tonight in all his royal-ass smugness.
He’s not going to be happy at all with the early reports that a Muslim was spotted runn9ing from the car.
I pray the cameras prove that early report.
Yes. It happened right before 6:30 pm. So it was targeting the post-matinee Broadway crowds.
Hopefully there is some kind of “paper trail” from the vehicle to those responsible. Or the person(s) responsible are found in some other way...
If they tried to set it off with a cell phone...that could hold alot of info.
Seriously?
I hope that we do not pay for this luck later on. Hope that everything is safely rendered.
That would have included many children, would it not have? They said that The Lion King was not far away. People were allowed to leave, or stay, but no-one except police were allowed in the area they had blocked off.
Thank God it did not explode!
Well there you go. You thump the ones on the left and I’ll thump the ones on the right. And if they don’t give up the information we’ll give them the 4 minute Baptisim bit.
The Muslim, anarchist, Commie or malcontent of whatever stripe has succeeded in disrupting the city and causing a lot of inconvenience for a lot of people, but the malcontent didn’t succeeed in causing death and destruction.
Praise the Lord.
“Person(s) of a certain kind” PC motto to be used for BOLO wanted suspects.
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