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The latest explosion in San Antonio was a device in the mail to Austin. Mailed originally from where? What I have been remembering lately is an incident in NYC a couple years ago. A college kid on vacation there with his family jumped off a rock in Central Park and landed on an explosive device of some kind that blew off his foot. I don't think arrests were ever made, and the incident faded from attention.


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The latest explosion in San Antonio was a device in the mail to Austin. Mailed originally from where? What I have been remembering lately is an incident in NYC a couple years ago. A college kid on vacation there with his family jumped off a rock in Central Park and landed on an explosive device of some kind that blew off his foot. I don't think arrests were ever made, and the incident faded from attention.



Apparently the package originated in Austin and was going to an Austin address. It went to the Schertz processing center to be sorted where it detonated on a conveyor.


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There's going to be a lot more of this:



Hope they catch this guy sooner rather than later.



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If you follow various social media site, you'll know that you've never heard of any of this story. It's not making the news at all because it's only black people being killed. It must be true, it's on the Internet.


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"The FBI has discovered a link between packages involved in the Austin bombings and a mail delivery office at a strip mall in the neighboring city of Sunset Valley."

Apparently the second package was shipped through a mail delivery service. If the location had cameras, the perp should be ID'd fairly quickly.


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Has there been any talk about banning anything yet over this?


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Whomever it maybe, the methods and attacks are unusually diversified ... even an alleged trip wire device on a residential street.

Lots of confusion and contradictory statements abound.

Will the perpetrator of these attacks make a mistake. Maybe not so random?

Either with the explosive signature or on cctv.

Apologies, getting caught up in the investigations.



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He'll get caught soon. Things are very different now than they were when the Unibomber went on for many years. For one thing, cameras are everywhere. Even if you scope out a venue carefully and think you know you are clear of video, someone can drive by with a dash cam. Or walk by with a cell phone. Or hover overhead with a drone.

This will be a truly serious problem, however, if it turns out not to be some psycho, (as is most likely) but a new tactic of jihadists.


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This will be a truly serious problem, however, if it turns out not to be some psycho, (as is most likely) but a new tactic of jihadists.


I would think that jihadists would want us to know that it is them creating the terror.


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Another explosion at a Goodwill Store in South Austin.
 
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Bomber just hit again. 7pm At a Goodwill drop off in SW Austin, Brodie Lane @ Slaughter. One victim with non life threatening injuries. 6th incident zo far.
 
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The Associated Press
An employee wrapped in a blanket talks to a police officer after she was evacuated at a FedEx distribution center where a package exploded, Tuesday, March 20, 2018, in Schertz, Texas. Authorities believe the package bomb is linked to the recent string of Austin bombings. (AP Photo/Eric Gay) The Associated Press


AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Latest on serial bombings in Texas (all times local):

7:30 p.m.

Austin authorities say emergency personnel are responding to another reported explosion, this one at a Goodwill store in the southern part of the city.

Austin-Travis County EMS tweeted Thursday evening that at least one person was injured but that details about the severity of those injuries and the explosion itself were unknown.

It would mark the sixth explosion in the Austin area since March 2. So far, two people have been killed and four others seriously wounded.

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He'll get caught soon. Things are very different now than they were when the Unibomber went on for many years. For one thing, cameras are everywhere. Even if you scope out a venue carefully and think you know you are clear of video, someone can drive by with a dash cam. Or walk by with a cell phone. Or hover overhead with a drone.

This will be a truly serious problem, however, if it turns out not to be some psycho, (as is most likely) but a new tactic of jihadists.

I can't imagine how he could have sent that Fedex package without getting on camera.
 
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^^^ Drudge now has a story up that the bomber might have been picked up on video at FedEx.

http://www.fox7austin.com/news...ossibly-show-suspect


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His biggest mistake was using Fedex!

How about that for an ad campaign!




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The local bomb squad is running ragged right now I'd say. For every actual bomb they deal with, there is probably 300 panic calls.




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I was thinking that he may be trying to overload the system.


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Folks, the local Spectrum (Times Warner as was) news channel is reporting, and authorities have confirmed, that the Goodwill store event in south Austin was not a part of the bombing.

Some guy dropped off a box with a bunch of stuff in it at the local Goodwill.

Among the stuff were apparently multiple artillery simulators.

One guy working there, not knowing what an artillery simulator was but knowing that the Goodwill Store wouldn't be interested in trying to sell one, told another guy working there that he could take one home.

Said another guy working there got to fooling with the thing, and it went off.

There was also some noise to the effect that they may have a line on someone connected through the bombings. Apparently they think that whoever dropped off the package that went off in San Antonio (Schertz, really) may be on videotape at a Fed Ex store.
 
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If he dropped it off at an actual FedEx location (either one of our ramp offices or a FedEx Office) then he is on video.

If he dropped it off at a dropoff box somehwere then who knows about video but someone - either the sender or the recepient - has a FedEx account. Otherwise it would not get into the system. I consider this the least likely scenario.

Many mailbox places ship both FedEx and UPS packages but I imagine about 99% of them have video surveillance going.

So yeah, the likelihood that this asshole has been caught on video is pretty high now.




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Looks like they got him:

Austin bomber dead




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