Bomb Blast - possible car bomb Nashville

[SA_Steve]

Now they are saying pieces of a person were found. The bomber ?

 

[mp_tx]

Well I’ll be damned. I stand corrected. Appears to be a LOOK AT ME suicide.


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[Hoji]

Well I’ll be damned. I stand corrected. Appears to be a LOOK AT ME suicide.


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I actually think it is a recording.

 

[Coop45]

One poor man was terrified and his cat was too. Get PETA in there to console the poor cat.

 

[Aus_Schwaben]

thinking ammonium nitrate?

im thinking some kind of primed tannerite was used just because it would be our luck to give them a nice excuse to BAN something fun.

ANFO - Ammonium Nitrate Fuel Oil is a possibility. Excellent bang for your buck - no pun intended.

Academic question: Would a pound of tannerite be enough to set off an ANFO charge? Does tannerite propagate fast enough to do the trick?

My research materials on the subject precede tannerite by a decade or three so I am attempting to fill some gaps.

 

[mp_tx]

I actually think it is a recording.

Agree on recording. Whole event is a suicider who wants to make national news. Look at me. Boom.


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[benenglish]

Academic question: Would a pound of tannerite be enough to set off an ANFO charge? Does tannerite propagate fast enough to do the trick?

My research materials on the subject precede tannerite by a decade or three so I am attempting to fill some gaps.

For the good of the forum, academic questions like that should be left to academics. TGT isn't the place to discuss the how-it's-done questions in any but the most general sense.

 

[cbigclarke]

Maybe Clark plugged in too many lights this year.

I did nothing!!!


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[TXP]

Everything needs said the RV was l parked in front of an AT&T phone office (place where a lot of communication equipment is installed). Since the bomber seemed to be warning people that there was a bomb, I'm going to venture that he was going after AT&T.

 

[satx78247]

To All,

Fwiw, I asked my "little brother" event about this (Ed is one of those folks about who it is said, "IF you see me running, better catch up.") event & he believes that the "attempted bomber " managed to blow himself up because the MAIN tonnage of the payload was not yet loaded.
(Driving about with an RV full of explosives, when it is unnecessary is CERTAINLY a poor idea.)

Note: BBC World News at 2300 said that, "- - - the presence of human remains" inside the bombed-out RV "is confirmed".

yours, satx

 

[kbaxter60]

The daytime "after" video is impressive:

 

[Axxe55]

Has anyone seen or read where anyone, or group has claimed responsibility for the bombing?

 

[Wolfwood]

I have been watching the news all night. No word. You take the day shift catch me up tonight.

They keep saying they are investigating whether or not the "remains" are connected with the explosion. Strangley worded, I keep thinking "how often do you find remains, human or otherwise, near a blast and its not related to said blast?" Obviously its connected, even if it was just an unlucky guy walking by at the wrong moment.

 

[ZX9RCAM]

Am I just missing all the damage to the buildings?
Was it more of a fireball than anything?

 

[TreyG-20]

Am I just missing all the damage to the buildings?
Was it more of a fireball than anything?

My observation as well. Cars are torched and not heavily damaged from blast. Tannerite/AN doesn't produce much heat other than friction. It certainly doesn't set stuff on fire. Like a gas explosion would.

 

[Big Dipper]

I heard on one news report the speculation that it was more of a pyrotechnic explosion. Guy pointed out that unlike Oklahoma City, there was no crater, and the smoke afterwards was black.

 

[easy rider]

I did nothing!!!


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Schultz?

 

[TexasRedneck]

There's significant structural damage to a number of buildings. That having been said, most were 100+ years old, constructed primarily of brick and mortar - not a really "strong" building in terms of lateral force resistance. Someone was out to cause damage to a specific business, hence the "clear the area" warning originating from the RV prior to the blast.
My money is that it was a former AT&T employee that felt wronged by them and was looking to do a maximum amount of damage to their infrastructure.

 

[Coop45]

Everything needs said the RV was l parked in front of an AT&T phone office (place where a lot of communication equipment is installed). Since the bomber seemed to be warning people that there was a bomb, I'm going to venture that he was going after AT&T.

OMG! And AT&T owns CNN! Fox must have done the deed.

 

[easy rider]

From the pictures I've seen, the ATT building looks to be several blocks away.