Tiny Explosion Slightly Startles Upper East Side in New York

[biggestmexi]

I hope no one was hurt.

NEW YORK (CNN) -- An explosion outside a Starbucks on the Upper East Side of Manhattan sent frightened people running into the street early Monday.
Police investigate an explosion in a Manhattan Upper East Side neighborhood.

Police investigate an explosion in a Manhattan Upper East Side neighborhood.

The explosion blew out the windows of a Starbucks coffeehouse at East 92nd Street and Third Avenue at 3:25 a.m., according to New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly.

A "low-order improvised explosive device" exploded after being left on a wooden bench in front of the coffeehouse, Kelly said. The blast could be heard many blocks away, according to CNN affiliate WABC-TV of New York.

Seven people were briefly evacuated from the building above the Starbucks, Kelly said, but no one was injured. The interior of the Starbucks sustained no damage.

It's too early to tell whether Monday's incident is connected to other minor explosions in New York City in recent years, including ones at the British and Mexican consulates and another in Times Square, Kelly said.
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He did note one immediate similarity between the detonations: All occurred at roughly the same time of night. He said the police would continue to analyze other similarities.

However, Kelly also noted that Starbucks has been the target of low-grade explosions in other cities.

Police plan to examine surveillance cameras for information that could lead investigators to the perpetrator, he said.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/05/25/new.york.explosion/index.html?eref=rss_topstories

[SatCam]

This is why I go to Dunkin Donuts

[mikeyboy]

That's so close to my old apartment. I read another report that just said that an explosion just blew out some windows in the middle of the night when no one was there. The headline sure makes it sound more horrific than it probably was.

[biggestmexi]

That's so close to my old apartment. I read another report that just said that an explosion just blew out some windows in the middle of the night when no one was there. The headline sure makes it sound more horrific than it probably was.

AH THANK YOU!

[jab]

fuck cnn, making it seem like it was a giant blast when it was a small thing that took out a bit of a chair. i mean i wouldnt want to be near that thing when it went off but come on its like a glorified m80. stupid asshole news site. it reads like asshole kids being stupid.

[mikeyboy]

would i be correct in saying this might have been her store though. i dont know new york at all but i know she works at a starbucks around the show studios.

this way i could edit it.

That's not really near the studios at all (at least as Manhattan goes). I'm nearly positive she doesn't work there. I think she works closer to mid-town.

[SatCam]

I hope that wasnt stalker patti's bench either

[underdog]

That's Upper Upper East Side.

[TooLowBrow]

if you had a band named explosion and you played a good show on the upper east side of ny, and rf.net reviewed it... we could reuse this thread title

[mikeyboy]

if you had a band named explosion and you played a good show on the upper east side of ny, and rf.net reviewed it... we could reuse this thread title

That's good because we're running out.

[ChrisTheCop]

Can I throw my vote out there to change the title?
If we're mad at cnn for exaggerating, why cause heart palpitations to ourselves?

[KatPw]

I hope no one was hurt.



http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/05/25/new.york.explosion/index.html?eref=rss_topstories

Probably the work of stupid kids. Friends of mine did something similar to a car dealership. Taped some M-80's to the window, lit the fuses and ran like hell. Good times.

[jab]

Can I throw my vote out there to change the title?
If we're mad at cnn for exaggerating, why cause heart palpitations to ourselves?

much agreed.

[mikeyboy]

much agreed.

I'm all for it. If someone can find a mod who isn't posting from his or her phone, please ask them to tone it down a bit.

[FezsAssistant]

Obama's doing a bad job of protecting us from terror.

[ChrisTheCop]

Obama's doing a bad job of protecting us from terror.

He didnt answer the 3:25am call, just like Hillary said.

[hammersavage]

Obama's doing a bad job of protecting us from terror.

We should bomb Seattle.

[mikeyboy]

That place is one cross-town block from the Crowe's Nest. If we had a bar night last night and happened to be walking past Starbucks at the end of the night, WE ALL COULD HAVE BEEN KILLED!!!!!!!!!

[ChrisTheCop]

That place is one cross-town block from the Crowe's Nest. If we had a bar night last night and happened to be walking past Starbucks at the end of the night, WE ALL COULD HAVE BEEN KILLED!!!!!!!!!

or seriously startled.

[Marc with a c]

i was just at a starbucks in wilkes barre. i'm counting my blessings it wasn't the one i was out.

[mikeyboy]

Talk about a close call. You might have night terrors for a bit.

[Foster]

I can go for a green tea frappuccino

[Marc with a c]

5/25 never forget.

[Radioguy]

The similarity is the time. The Mexican consulate, the British consulate, the Times Square bombing event at the recruiting station, we have this event. They all happened between 3:30 a.m. and 4:30 a.m. that's the immediate similarity we are looking at," said Commissioner Ray Kelly.

That's the vibe I got too. Maybe security footage will show someone bicycling away again.

[HBox]

One time I was in a Dunkin Donuts when I was on vacation two years ago in Louisville. Imagine if I had decided to take that vacation 2 years later, and instead of Louisville it was NYC, and instead of Dunkin Donuts I went to Starbucks, and of all the Starbucks I picked one on the Upper East Side and this one was it, and that I went right before it closed, and then I got the runs so I went to the bathroom, and then I stayed on the bowl until after they closed, and then I passed out from exhaustion and shit fumes, and then I woke up but found myself trapped, and then I called the cops to let me out, and then I stood by the window to wait for the cops, AND THEN the bomb went off? I would have had to clean glass shards off my clothes. It's too much to imagine. Worse than 9/11.

[Foster]

I went to Starbucks a little while ago; I have to commend the brave souls working there today, they were just going about their business like nothing happened.

God Bless Them

[mikeyboy]

I poured a grande mocha latte on the ground for my nearly fallen brothers.

[HBox]

All Starbucks nationwide held a minute of silence in between Norah Jones songs today.

[TheMojoPin]

Let's roll....to the unexploded Starbucks around the corner.

[TooLowBrow]

Let's roll....to the unexploded Starbucks around the corner.

please dont use the 'lets roll' thing anymore.
im a 9/11 survivor and is disrespectful

[TheMojoPin]

Nobody survived "let's roll."

Except our memories.

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NEVER FORGET.

[disneyspy]

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[TooLowBrow]

Nobody survived "let's roll."

Except our memories.


i was a survivor of the day

[TheMojoPin]

Me too.

[TooLowBrow]

Me too.

only the strong survived

[TheMojoPin]

I got er done.

[ChrisTheCop]

please dont use the 'lets roll' thing anymore.
im a 9/11 survivor and is disrespectful

Yeah, I kinda got a douche chill when marc used the date (5/25) as a joke, but whaddaya gonna do? Different strokes.

[Furtherman]

Police Say ‘Fight Club’ Inspired a Bomber (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/16/nyregion/16starbucks.html?_r=1)

When a homemade bomb constructed from fireworks explosives, a plastic bottle and electrical tape was set off outside a Starbucks coffee shop on the Upper East Side early on May 25, the police initially thought the explosion might be linked to three others with similar profiles.

Post a Comment on City Room But on Wednesday, after the arrest of a Chelsea teenager in the Starbucks attack, the police said there was no connection between that attack and the three others. Instead, the Starbucks bomber had his own agenda, the police said: to emulate the assaults on corporate America planned by a character in the movie “Fight Club.”

The teenager, Kyle Shaw, 17, was arrested Tuesday night and charged with first-degree arson and first-degree criminal possession of a weapon, the authorities said.

“His statements indicated he was launching his own ‘Project Mayhem,’ ” Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly said at a news conference on Wednesday, referring to a plan hatched by the protagonist of “Fight Club,” played by Brad Pitt, to sabotage corporations by destroying property. Mr. Shaw had told a friend to “watch the news on Memorial Day,” May 25, Mr. Kelly said.

Mr. Shaw pleaded not guilty on Wednesday night at his arraignment in Manhattan Criminal Court. Judge Abraham Clott ordered him held in $300,000 bond or $100,000 cash bail.

[A.J.]

As long as the Crowe's Nest is OK.

[ChrisTheCop]

http://www.actionfigureinsider.com/main/wp-content/uploads/2007/Prof-chaos.jpg

[Dan 'Hampton]

His name was Kyle Shaw, his name was Kyle Shaw, his name was Kyle Shaw.

[Dougie Brootal]

thats the most disappointing "project: mayhem" ever. an m80 taped to a plastic waterbottle? these kids today...

[DolaMight]

one and done. project mayhem accomplished.