My wife and I walked through Times Square in NYC yesterday on the way to Penn Station.

[onehandle]

To catch a train home after a day trip.

It was a beautiful sunny day and the crowds were unusually heavy.

Every time I walk near Times Square, I assume that a bomb will go off. My wife thinks the same thing.

[Phentex]

1. Hmmm...we were there last week and I never felt unsafe...

meanwhile, in Atlanta, I always assume I am going to be in a car accident.

[Honeycombe8]

2. I spent quite a bit of time in Times Square the last couple of years, for work.

Not once did I ever think a bomb would go off. And one never did.

[Sanity Claws]

3. I'm more afraid of Elmo at Times Square

than a bomb at Times Square.

That guy there gives me the creeps.

[onehandle]

4. You mean 'Elmos.'

As in bunches of unlicensed Elmos working for tips.

Totally give me the creeps.

[Phentex]

5. I saw a cookie monster and my son screamed...

"No, mom, don't take a picture! He'll want money!"

I had never heard of this tactic but then we watched and sure enough, the monster removed his "head" and asked a couple of tourists for money. It's a living I guess!

[Bluenorthwest]

6. You assume this? Don't you mean you have a fear of that?

Jaysus.

[onehandle]

7. It's not a fear. We often avoid Times Square, because frankly it's unpleasant.

We could have walked around easily.

It just seems like a prime spot for a McVeigh style van attack to happen.

[Logical]

8. Seriously, you need to talk to someone about paranoia! n-t

[krispos42]

9. I was at the USS Intrepid yesterday

They have metal detectors at the gate; I had to give up my Swiss army knife. They checked for weapons, but they did not touch the juice boxes or sealed boxes of snack crackers. That Jingos box could easily have contained a small bomb.

There was a long line waiting to get to the detectors, a crowd going through the detectors, and a tightly-packed crowd in the mouse maze to the ticket sellers. Targets, all of them.

I took the Metro-North train. Confined environment, full of people. I took it to Grand Central Station. Also a confined environment, full of people.

[onehandle]

10. We rode a very crowded F train from Brooklyn. And a very crowded NJT train from Penn to Trenton.

We spent the day beforehand hiking from Penn Station to the Brooklyn Bridge and across.

The bridge was packed with people, as usual on a pretty day.

Lots of soft targets indeed.

[ellie]

11. I have been through Times Square

several times and bombs going off never crosses my mind.