UES Starbucks Blast Seems Unrelated to Consulate Bombings

The Post reports that investigators doubt Monday's explosion outside an Upper East Side Starbucks is related to the bombings outside the British and Mexican Consulates as well as the Times Square recruiting station. Apparently the "make-up of the bomb -- flash powder stuffed inside a jumbo pill jar -- was not similar to the ones used for the earlier bombings," and the description of the teens seen fleeing the area doesn't match the others bombings' lone bicyclist. The Post adds police are investigating whether the incident is linked to a small explosion at a Starbucks in Providence, RI, but the Seattle coffee company sent us a statement, "We are confident that these two explosions were not linked. Further, though the investigation continues, we actually have no reason to believe that Starbucks specifically was a target for this incident." (Apparently there had been a series of small explosions in plastic bottles in different parts of Providence last year.)

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By Jen Chung in News on May 27, 2009 10:28 AM

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Think2wice

French anarchists? The Illuminati? Rowdy teenagers? All of the above?

NannyState

Situationists. Classic profile.

JacqueMehoff

where does one get flash powder? it would take bricks and bricks of unraveling firecrackers to fill a RX bottle.

still nothing to see here, move along.

hotstepper

move it along. nothing to see here.

timThompson

I blame Chuck Palahniuk.

Huffy6241

Imagine how many papers would sell if the explosion happened on 91st and 1st...

whatsthatnow

why's that?

drewo

But putting "bomb" in the headlines sells newspapers.

FrankMartin

Are you trying for dumbest comment of the week.

First headlines are supposed to grab your attention and sell papers

Second, it was a bomb.

What should the headline read, "window and bench break at UES starbucks"

drewo

First headlines are supposed to grab your attention and sell papers
By routinely distorting and stretching the truth. You don't have to believe the headlines.

Second, it was a bomb.
And each 4th of July, do folks light off "bombs" in their backyards? Or do we have other names for those kinds of small explosives? Like the kind used at the Starbucks.

FrankMartin

A "bomb" is an "explosive weapon". A "weapon" is a device used for offense or defense. So the intent to do damage with an explosive weapon makes the word bomb accurate. Dad and his fireworks aren't out to break windows or create mayhem. They are for entertainment. So we do have other names, fireworks, firecrackers, bottle rockets, roman candles.

So if the startbucks were damaged by 10 M-80s taped together and set off at once it isn't fireworks anymore it is a homemade bomb.

And yes, you don't have to believe everything you read in a headline. But, do you read everything you believe.