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> officers and witnesses heard a broadcast coming from the RV giving a dire warning: “Evacuate now. There is a bomb. A bomb is in this vehicle and will explode.
by segfaultbuserr 6y ago
> officers and witnesses heard a broadcast coming from the RV giving a dire warning: “Evacuate now. There is a bomb. A bomb is in this vehicle and will explode." Then, the voice started a 15-minute countdown. Metro Police Chief John Drake said the six officers at the scene quickly began to evacuate the area, going door-to-door. They redirected a man walking his dog along the street.
This is surreal. Almost a scene from some Sci-Fi spy movie, in which the protagonist/antagonist performs a surgical attack on a strategic target while preventing unnecessary civilian death...
- Macha 6y agoWas pretty common (though not consistent) for the IRA to phone ahead to warn where they'd put bombs.
- outoftheabyss 6y agoIronically it was on an occasion when a bomb was phoned in that led to the single biggest atrocity during the troubles. 29 people killed by a cat bomb in Omagh. We may not be living in peace today has it not happened
- sillysaurusx 6y agoWhat’s a cat bomb?
- throwaheyy 6y agoProbably a car bomb. The IRA were infamous for those.
- sillysaurusx 6y agoThanks. Apparently it's no longer cool to ask questions on HN, since I had no idea what a cat bomb was, yet a mod flagged it regardless.
- outoftheabyss 6y agoCommon sense would tell you the t and r keys are right beside each other
- outoftheabyss 6y agoA bomb with a cat in it. Use your noggin
- konjin 6y agoIt was probably plan #513 on how to kill Castro. Notes: Put bomb in cute cat. Castro is known to pat strays three times. Use that as the trigger. You can't prove I'm wrong: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_Kitty https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_Kitty
- dboreham 6y agoSurely a cat with a bomb in it.
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- x86_64Ubuntu 6y ago*car bomb
- thih9 6y ago“The Omagh bombing was a car bombing on 15 August 1998 in the town of Omagh, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom. (...) Telephoned warnings had been sent almost forty minutes beforehand and police inadvertently moved people toward the bomb.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omagh_bombing https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omagh_bombing
- ksdjhfjkdhfsk 6y ago> 'This is surreal. Almost a scene from some Sci-Fi spy movie,' Well it's the Hollywood writers who write all of these scripts, so what do you expect? Same guy who writes all the Michael Bay movies, writes these scripts also.