Posted on 12/25/2020 6:12:05 AM PST by PghBaldy
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — A large explosion was reported in downtown Nashville early Christmas morning.
The explosion happened in the area of Second Avenue and Broadway near Commerce Street
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Jihadists now seem almost quaint compared to domestic enemies.
Julie Boobs Banderas
Is wrong
Shots fired is why cops were called to the area first
Tracphone down here in Nashville too
What a mess!
Hope Nashville gets back on its feet fast.
They do have one helluva great police force.
Those first responders were all a class act.
Target was ATT & election data.
Sumthin along that lines
GP article comment
posits that it was intended as a warning to trump to concede or else risk widespread violence. just passing along the notion...
“WHY NASHVILLE? WHY ATT?
Here’s your answer.
Room 641A is a telecom intercept facility operated by AT&T for the U.S. NSA, as part of its warrantless surveillance program, Patriot Act.
What part of the country does this “hub” cover? GEORGIA.“
https://mobile.twitter.com/CarrollQuigley1/status/1342556630152577026
PC CAN’T SAY ACT OF TERRORISM.
“I’m not trained in nor have I ever trained in law, or anything resembling it.”
Speaking of law enforcement and dangerous things, here’s a true story. First, when I shoot at those containers I mentioned, I’m at least 50 feet away with eye protection. Now for the story.
About 40 years ago we lived in a small town and their sewer lagoon froze over blocking sewage and causing it to backup in homes. That town had a combination cop and maintenance guy. His way to clear the ice was to blow it up. He wanted to demonstrate to the mayor how the explosive worked. So here is the mayor, councilmen, construction folks (me) and a few others around this uniformed cop kneeling on the ground mixing diesel fuel and fertilizer and trying to get it to blow up by lighting it with a match.
On a stupid scale of 1 - 10 we were all 10’s with the cop an 11. Fortunately it never blew up. If he’d used a large fire cracker it might have.
They wound up using a large excavator to dig through the ice. I was the operator.
Haha! I’m dying! That’s hilarious! Of course it could’ve gone very bad, but everyone’s guardian angels said not today.
One day in the army, some officer thought it would be a good idea to demonstrate the power of an anti tank mine. We got the whole company out in jeeps, some MLs and on the way out to the field we hit a buck. We threw the buck in the back of an ML (medium lift) truck and kept going. When we got to our destination we took 2 mine’s and stacked them. Then we took a problem Jeep (maintainers had enough) and we parked it over top. We took the buck and sat him in the driver’s seat with his front hooves through the steering wheel. We all went back about 300 yards and then the OC told the engineer to light it up. That thing vaporized, but before we could stare in amazement and wonder where it all went, we were flattened by the blast. Thankfully the guy in the second rank behind me softened the fall. We all pick ourselves up and the OC was a bit stunned, he then asks what did we learn today? Someone piped up and yelled loudly “too damn close Sir!” We all had a good laugh. Even the engine block was vaporized. We never found any parts. To this day I cringe thinking of how much flying metal and deer and his antlers that all l missed us and how lucky we were.
I guess what I’m trying to say is yes, I feel your pain of that day lol.
I had a son-in-law who played with explosives that claims when he first heard of the OK City bombing he tried it out and mixed up a 5 gallon pale of the stuff, set it out in a field and rigged a delayed gun powder detonator to it and got the hell out of Dodge to watch from a distance.
I do not recall his story’s size of the hole, but it was several feet deep and several feet in diameter with dirt and rocks zooming into the sky a hundred feet or better.
The point is, once I realized how powerful this stuff is, I knew for sure my guardian angel was watching over us on that sewage lagoon job. My recollection is the cop mixed about two cups of the stuff, which would have dismembered all of us.
I’ve never played with explosives simply due to the danger of accidents and not knowing what I’m doing. We don’t even light fire crackers.
I’m with you on that one. I just stick to shooting coyotes.
You were very fortunate in that lagoon incident.
Somebody has a problem with country-western music? Happened before in Vegas.
People are still calling the election “stolen”. This is what happens when you threaten demoncracy.
I see the Hooters sign. This is the work of some right-wing fundamentalist Christian who hates women with big titties. Obviously./s
“On a stupid scale of 1 - 10 we were all 10’s with the cop an 11.”
Barney Fife lives. Wow.
FAA declares skies around Nashville bombing site as ‘National Defense Airspace’ https://www.wate.com/news/faa-declares-skies-around-nashville-bombing-site-as-national-defense-airspace/
The Lone Wolf theory is gaining traction today.
Someone fired from that AT&
t location recently?
Any ex-employees missing?
We had a bomber like that back in NYC, in the 1950’s.
His name was George Metesky.
He held a grudge against Con Edison for firing him. He set off
bombs all over the city...bombs he made in his garage in Queens.
He killed one person.
The biggest bomb was set off at the Con Ed headquarters in Lower Manhattan.
Ha! Here in PA, guys have been known to throw a stick of dynamite into their frozen septic tanks. 😜🤪😱
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