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Postby Ifreann » Mon Dec 11, 2017 7:22 am

Gratissima wrote:
Ifreann wrote:Did you have some reason to believe there was likely to be a terrorist attack in New York?

Only the fact that it is the most populated city in the United States, also, it seems that terror attacks are becoming more frequent in America in the first place.

Does it? How so?


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Ifreann wrote:Did you have some reason to believe there was likely to be a terrorist attack in New York?

Not expected terrorists to target one of the largest cities in the US seems a little unreasonable, does it?

Remember the bombing at the Boston city marathon? Boston is the 22nd most populous city in the US. So I don't know if terrorists specifically go after more populous cities.
And who else would detonate a bomb in a subway? A demolition crew?

When Gratissima said they were waiting for this to happen in New York I don't think they specifically meant a bomb in the subway.
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Postby The Blaatschapen » Mon Dec 11, 2017 7:25 am

Ifreann wrote:
Gratissima wrote:Only the fact that it is the most populated city in the United States, also, it seems that terror attacks are becoming more frequent in America in the first place.

Does it? How so?


Free Arctic Territories wrote:Not expected terrorists to target one of the largest cities in the US seems a little unreasonable, does it?

Remember the bombing at the Boston city marathon? Boston is the 22nd most populous city in the US. So I don't know if terrorists specifically go after more populous cities.
And who else would detonate a bomb in a subway? A demolition crew?

When Gratissima said they were waiting for this to happen in New York I don't think they specifically meant a bomb in the subway.


Boston is better known than some others higher on that list. So I wager it is not only population, but also cultural appeal.

Or tell me when there is a terrorist attack in Fort Worth (16th most populous).
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Postby Gratissima » Mon Dec 11, 2017 7:25 am

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Gratissima wrote:Only the fact that it is the most populated city in the United States, also, it seems that terror attacks are becoming more frequent in America in the first place.

Does it? How so?


Free Arctic Territories wrote:Not expected terrorists to target one of the largest cities in the US seems a little unreasonable, does it?

Remember the bombing at the Boston city marathon? Boston is the 22nd most populous city in the US. So I don't know if terrorists specifically go after more populous cities.
And who else would detonate a bomb in a subway? A demolition crew?

When Gratissima said they were waiting for this to happen in New York I don't think they specifically meant a bomb in the subway.

Well, either there have been more attacks, or just more media coverage. And yes, I wasn't quite expecting a bomb in the subway, though it had happened in England just a little while ago, so it wasn't completely UNexpected, either.
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Postby Ethel mermania » Mon Dec 11, 2017 7:26 am

Ifreann wrote:
Gratissima wrote:Not to sound cynical, but was anybody else just waiting for this to happen in New York?

Did you have some reason to believe there was likely to be a terrorist attack in New York?


Nyc in general is considered a target. I had no specific information about a event. We are in a hightejed state, but that is more an artifact from the last attack at the wtc in the fall.
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Postby Ethel mermania » Mon Dec 11, 2017 7:32 am

Gratissima wrote:
Ifreann wrote:Does it? How so?



Remember the bombing at the Boston city marathon? Boston is the 22nd most populous city in the US. So I don't know if terrorists specifically go after more populous cities.

When Gratissima said they were waiting for this to happen in New York I don't think they specifically meant a bomb in the subway.

Well, either there have been more attacks, or just more media coverage. And yes, I wasn't quite expecting a bomb in the subway, though it had happened in England just a little while ago, so it wasn't completely UNexpected, either.


We expect a bomb in the subways all the time. We train for it, and are in the process of putting cameras to cover every inch of the property so we can see it. Every entrence and exit already has video coverage.. That said there was no specific information that I had seen warning about this attack. Only a generalized highneed state due to the last one.
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Postby Ethel mermania » Mon Dec 11, 2017 7:36 am

After watching the video. (Which should be available soon).

It was in the passageway between the 7th and 8th Ave line, it's a miracne more people were not injured.
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Postby Ifreann » Mon Dec 11, 2017 7:55 am

Ethel mermania wrote:After watching the video. (Which should be available soon).

It was in the passageway between the 7th and 8th Ave line, it's a miracne more people were not injured.

Incompetent terrorists are the best, really.
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Postby The Blaatschapen » Mon Dec 11, 2017 7:57 am

Ifreann wrote:
Ethel mermania wrote:After watching the video. (Which should be available soon).

It was in the passageway between the 7th and 8th Ave line, it's a miracne more people were not injured.

Incompetent terrorists are the best, really.


I bet that 500 years from now there will be a sketch featuring that. Similar to monty pythons "Spanish inquisition"
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Postby Dumb Ideologies » Mon Dec 11, 2017 7:59 am

Ifreann wrote:
Ethel mermania wrote:After watching the video. (Which should be available soon).

It was in the passageway between the 7th and 8th Ave line, it's a miracne more people were not injured.

Incompetent terrorists are the best, really.


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Postby Thermodolia » Mon Dec 11, 2017 8:00 am

Ethel mermania wrote:
Trumptonium wrote:Commuters said they felt a blast in the Subway tunnels underneath the Port Authority Bus Terminal around 6:30am. The bus terminal is a major transit hub for people commuting into the city by bus from New Jersey, and is located just a block from Times Square.

Police have one man in custody, who had an explosive device on him. The FDNY said they are investigating the possibility of it being a terror attack.

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Around 7. Got on a train, doors closed, heard a boom, train sat for 45 seconds and then pulled out. Probably last subway train out of the port authority for a while.

Good thing you're safe Ethel
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Postby Ethel mermania » Mon Dec 11, 2017 8:02 am

Ifreann wrote:
Ethel mermania wrote:After watching the video. (Which should be available soon).

It was in the passageway between the 7th and 8th Ave line, it's a miracne more people were not injured.

Incompetent terrorists are the best, really.

OJT and Knowledge transfer are difficult in the suicide bombing industry.
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Postby Thermodolia » Mon Dec 11, 2017 8:02 am

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Wait, which recent actions?

Like, which one specifically, the list is long :p

I imagine the Jerusalem decision is being used by Jihadists as a prime example of decadent Americans defying the will of God. They probably are not happy

They can shove it up theirs
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Postby Ethel mermania » Mon Dec 11, 2017 8:05 am

Thermodolia wrote:
Ethel mermania wrote:
Around 7. Got on a train, doors closed, heard a boom, train sat for 45 seconds and then pulled out. Probably last subway train out of the port authority for a while.

Good thing you're safe Ethel

Meeee tooo, and mrs mermania agrees, I got 4 calls from her already.
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Postby The New California Republic » Mon Dec 11, 2017 8:11 am

Ethel mermania wrote:
Ifreann wrote:Incompetent terrorists are the best, really.

OJT and Knowledge transfer are difficult in the suicide bombing industry.

At least the device wasn't similar to the one used in the Manchester Arena bombing, the result of this could have been very different...
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Postby Thermodolia » Mon Dec 11, 2017 8:27 am

Ethel mermania wrote:
Thermodolia wrote:Good thing you're safe Ethel

Meeee tooo, and mrs mermania agrees, I got 4 calls from her already.

I need to call me cousin. They live in or near the Upper East Side, she just had a baby
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Postby Ethel mermania » Mon Dec 11, 2017 8:28 am

Thermodolia wrote:
Ethel mermania wrote:Meeee tooo, and mrs mermania agrees, I got 4 calls from her already.

I need to call me cousin. They live in or near the Upper East Side, she just had a baby

They should be ok, this was at 41st and 8th, in the passageway.
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Postby Thermodolia » Mon Dec 11, 2017 8:30 am

Ethel mermania wrote:
Thermodolia wrote:I need to call me cousin. They live in or near the Upper East Side, she just had a baby

They should be ok, this was at 41st and 8th, in the passageway.

Ya but her hubby works around the Hudson Yards area. They are both architects
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Postby The Blaatschapen » Mon Dec 11, 2017 8:32 am

Ethel mermania wrote:
Thermodolia wrote:Good thing you're safe Ethel

Meeee tooo, and mrs mermania agrees, I got 4 calls from her already.


Four times, wow. She was very concerned.

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Postby San Lumen » Mon Dec 11, 2017 8:49 am

According to my local news station the suspect is receiving treatment at a local hospital for burns. I don't know which one.

It really saddens me to see some of the comments on their Facebook page. Comments like he shouldn't receive treatment or the doctors should refuse to do it. He has a right to medical treatment and the doctors have an obligation to treat him. Its called the Hippocratic oath.

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Postby Thermodolia » Mon Dec 11, 2017 8:51 am

San Lumen wrote:According to my local news station the suspect is receiving treatment at a local hospital for burns. I don't know which one.

It really saddens me to see some of the comments on their Facebook page. Comments like he shouldn't receive treatment or the doctors should refuse to do it. He has a right to medical treatment and the doctors have an obligation to treat him. Its called the Hippocratic oath.

They are treating him yes? Then it doesn't matter what the peanut gallery thinks
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Postby San Lumen » Mon Dec 11, 2017 8:54 am

Thermodolia wrote:
San Lumen wrote:According to my local news station the suspect is receiving treatment at a local hospital for burns. I don't know which one.

It really saddens me to see some of the comments on their Facebook page. Comments like he shouldn't receive treatment or the doctors should refuse to do it. He has a right to medical treatment and the doctors have an obligation to treat him. Its called the Hippocratic oath.

They are treating him yes? Then it doesn't matter what the peanut gallery thinks

True but its truly sad how uninformed and mean people can be.

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Postby Kash Island » Mon Dec 11, 2017 8:58 am

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Internationalist Bastard wrote:I imagine the Jerusalem decision is being used by Jihadists as a prime example of decadent Americans defying the will of God. They probably are not happy

They can shove it up theirs



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Postby Ifreann » Mon Dec 11, 2017 8:59 am

San Lumen wrote:According to my local news station the suspect is receiving treatment at a local hospital for burns. I don't know which one.

It really saddens me to see some of the comments on their Facebook page. Comments like he shouldn't receive treatment or the doctors should refuse to do it. He has a right to medical treatment and the doctors have an obligation to treat him. Its called the Hippocratic oath.

Doctors don't take the Hippocratic Oath.
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Postby The New California Republic » Mon Dec 11, 2017 8:59 am

San Lumen wrote:It really saddens me to see some of the comments on their Facebook page. Comments like he shouldn't receive treatment or the doctors should refuse to do it. He has a right to medical treatment and the doctors have an obligation to treat him. Its called the Hippocratic oath.

Facebook has been a platform for slinging vitriol for a very long time, so it doesn't surprise me in the least. Leaving Facebook was the best internet-related decision I ever made. On the subject of medical treatment, if doctors could choose who they treated on the basis of ideology/criminality etc, then we may as well say goodbye to the moral and ethical foundations of Western medicine.
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Postby San Lumen » Mon Dec 11, 2017 9:03 am

Ifreann wrote:
San Lumen wrote:According to my local news station the suspect is receiving treatment at a local hospital for burns. I don't know which one.

It really saddens me to see some of the comments on their Facebook page. Comments like he shouldn't receive treatment or the doctors should refuse to do it. He has a right to medical treatment and the doctors have an obligation to treat him. Its called the Hippocratic oath.

Doctors don't take the Hippocratic Oath.

I thought all doctors, nurses, and physicians do.
The New California Republic wrote:
San Lumen wrote:It really saddens me to see some of the comments on their Facebook page. Comments like he shouldn't receive treatment or the doctors should refuse to do it. He has a right to medical treatment and the doctors have an obligation to treat him. Its called the Hippocratic oath.

Facebook has been a platform for slinging vitriol for a very long time, so it doesn't surprise me in the least. Leaving Facebook was the best internet-related decision I ever made. On the subject of medical treatment, if doctors could choose who they treated on the basis of ideology/criminality etc, then we may as well say goodbye to the moral and ethical foundations of Western medicine.

I agree completely

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