By now everyone is covering the story of the bomb blast at the recruiting station in Times Square. I’m sure there will be more than enough speculation about who the responsible parties are. I won’t venture a guess this early, but whoever they are let me put my vote in for public flogging and hanging.
I understand that there are tremendous pressures in the news business. As much as I complain about the media in general and print “journalists” in particular, I do understand that, in an age of instant information and 24/7 coverage, attention to detail may occasionally suffer. That being said, I would like to think that even the AFP would be capable of better than this piece of shit. Here are a few of the more choice parts:
The explosion sparked an immediate and large police response — one of the legacies of the September 11 attacks six years ago, since when the city has been on a constant and heightened state of alert.
Surely you remember the good old days of September 10, 2001 when the police response to a bomb going off in the middle of Times Fucking Square would have been much more casual.
Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said the blast was the result of an improvised explosive device that could have caused serious injury or even proved fatal.
As opposed to harmless explosive devices that can warp doors, but are utterly incapable of causing injury.
The Department of Homeland Security was swift to say there was no information to suggest an imminent threat to the United States after the blast.
The White House said the explosion “doesn’t appear to be terrorism,” adding that it was closely following the investigation.
If these fuckers were as swift and decisive in fighting terrorism as they are in denying it, I’d sleep a lot better.
However, traffic was being allowed through Times Square, affectionately known as “the crossroads of the world,” and subway services, shortly suspended after the blast, were back to normal, sparing the city rush-hour chaos.
I want to get a job writing wire reports for the AFP just to see the manual they must hand out. I bet it has a whole section on awkward non sequitors.