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Monday, May 25, 2009

Boom All the Tiny Bombings

Posted by Brendan Kiley on Mon, May 25, 2009 at 9:38 AM

The small bomb explosion at about 3:30 a.m. EDT shattered windows and damaged a wooden sidewalk bench at a Starbucks on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, police said. The store was closed at the time, and no injuries were reported.

Police were investigating whether the blast was related to an explosion at the British consulate in 2005, a blast at the Mexican consulate in 2007 and an explosion at a U.S. military recruiting station in Times Square in 2008.

Each of the explosions occurred at about the same time of day, police said. In each one, damage was limited and no injuries occurred.

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The FBI is talking about "an anarchist uptick" and looking into five people—two French, two Canadian, and one Italian—who had raised some suspicion at the Canadian border. (International anarchist plot to bomb New York!)

Meanwhile, the two men with Molotov cocktails at the Republican National Convention, assembled to blow up a Jumbo-tron screen and were never used, have been sentenced to two years and four years—because one was more contrite than the other.

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Project Mayhem!

Posted by Mr. Poe on May 25, 2009 at 9:56 AM

One segment of this weekend's This American Life discusses Brandon Darby and this story in a lot more detail. You can listen/download the show (for a short time only) from: http://www.thislife.org/Radio_Episode.as…

Posted by slugbiker

on May 25, 2009 at 11:07 AM

And what are we doing about the Canada Geese? You think it's funny, don't you? Letting innumerable geese cross the border illegally to wreak havoc and destruction on our fair country. It's a conspiracy, I tell you.

Posted by Fifty-Two-Eighty

on May 25, 2009 at 11:32 AM

I've got nothing but pity for the RNC "bombers." They were arrested just before they left town, having done nothing but put some gasoline in glass bottles.

Posted by dwight moody on May 25, 2009 at 11:42 AM

what costume shall a poor girl where to all tomorrow's bombings?

Posted by kinaidos on May 25, 2009 at 1:57 PM

What did the last paragraph have to do with the main story? Nothing

Posted by The Stranger: poor writing for drunkards on May 26, 2009 at 9:56 AM