Bomb diffused at a San Francisco Starbucks (O'Reilly inspired?)

[kskiska]

A bomb left inside a Starbucks bathroom was diffused by the San Francisco police explosives ordinance unit this afternoon, according to Sgt. Neville Gittens.

The improvised explosive device, or IED, was diffused by at around 2 p.m., Gittens said.

Police responded to a call about a suspicious device in the coffee house located at Van Ness Avenue and Bush Street at around 1:15 p.m.

more…
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/13586398.htm

[kenny blankenship]

1. "Army of Dog" again?

[slackmaster]

2. Correct verb is "defused" not diffused

Sorry to be a grammar Nazi, but that one frosts my ass.

Any professional journalistic writer or editor should know the difference.

:mad:

[northzax]

6. maybe they split it up into really small pieces?

and scattered them evenly throughout the Starbucks?

[slackmaster]

10. Today's Special: Every Venti Latte comes with a shot of C4

:nuke:

[WhereIsMyFreedom]

42. In other words...

...they set it off. An explosion is just a very rapid form of diffusion. Talk about saying the opposite of what they wanted to say.

[northzax]

44. I've discovered your secret identity!

[WhereIsMyFreedom]

46. Oh no, I've been found out!

I shall now prosecute you for anonymously revealing my identity to the whole world, which is...er, annoying. Enjoy your two years in prison.

[northzax]

48. alas for you, I am not anonymous

Here, between me and you, is my alias...

come and get me, big boy.

[WhereIsMyFreedom]

53. Curses, foiled again.

[northzax]

58. dude, that belt totally clashed with your shirt

sheesh, I remember when people took care with their appearence. :hi:

[redqueen]

14. It's grating...

I mean we expect to see this kind of nonsense painted on store windows, but in newspapers?

:eyes:

[northzax]

43. don't you mean "greating"?

sheesh, grammar nazis.

[pinerow]

47. Nope.."grating"...as in annoying...

nt

[northzax]

50. too subtle, I guess

for !!!

[redqueen]

52. LMAO!

Nah, it wasn't too subtle...

Wish I'd have been around to respond first.

:rofl:

[Ladyhawk]

61. I was thinking the same damn thing.

How did this get past editors????

[arcane1]

3. damn, that's my street, 6 blocks from home

fortunately, I buy my coffee from the mom-&-pop next door, but that's still too close to home :scared:

Bush, Cheney, etc, know this: if you DARE to think you're gonna pull a LIHOP2 in MY CITY, THINK TWICE MOTHERFUCKERS!!!!!

[DoYouEverWonder]

4. Probably a freeper

who hates liberals for our freedoms and lattes.

[negativenihil]

54. what the hell is the right wing's problem with lattes?!

it's just coffee with milk...

Maybe it's time we on the left start screaming about this war on lattes! Makes as much sense as the so-called war on Christmas...

[KamaAina]

5. Why does SF still have a Bush Street?

located at Van Ness Avenue and Bush Street

I mean, I know the street was there first, but you'd think by now they would have changed it to "Avenue of the Activists" or something.

edit: header

[arcane1]

7. I cringed when I first moved-in there

:puke:

I have a friend who also lives on Bush St, and last year she had a sign in her window that said "I'd rather live on Kerry Street" :)

[Mz Pip]

34. After the 2000 selection

someone had changed all the Bush Street signs to PUPPET. They looked like the real thing. They were up for a long time. :evilgrin:

Mz Pip
:dem:

[KansDem]

55. Bush Street appears in "The Maltese Falcon."

It's the location where Sam Spade's partner Miles Archer is gunned down.

[ucmike]

8. IED???? give me a break.

anything to inspire fear.

unless this was a military operation, isn't it pretty likely that any bomb would be improvised. it's not like you can get a bomb at home depot.

"Coming up on channel 4, could your next double mocha latte put you in the way of an IED? we'll tell you"

i wonder if the reporters on scene are "embedded"?

[pinniped]

11. I noticed that, too.

Iraq has a connection to San Francisco.:scared:

[arcane1]

12. next thing you know, they'll be calling residents "insurgents"

hell they probably already are, the bastards

[pinniped]

18. You just know that's coming next.

another link:
http://cbs5.com/topstories/local_story_009183906.html

Even this dude used the IED terminology.:scared:

--Ricardo Frias, a sales representative with Ellis Brooks Auto Center, located adjacent to the Starbucks, said a heavy police presence began at around 1 p.m. He said once the bomb squad arrived on scene an hour later, all auto center employees were directed to stand on the other side of the block-long store for about 30 minutes. He said he heard nothing when the IED was defused.--

[Patsy Stone]

23. I think they were just fed up

with the price of their Venti Soy Cinnamon Dolce Frappuccino...

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/baycitynews/archive/2006/01/09/bomb09.DTL

[ucmike]

17. at the thanksgiving day parade in nyc

one of the hundreds of reporters covering for the local channels announced that he was embedded along the parade route. if it wasn't so stupid it would've been funny.

[pinniped]

19. LOL. Was his name Geraldope Dumbvera?

.

[karlrschneider]

21. We've called him Horrible Revolver for years.

;-)

[Castilleja]

57. LOL!

That made me laugh! But, I did have to think about it first....

[pinniped]

9. IED? Pretty high-tech acronym for a plain old homemade bomb.

They used to call these homemade bombs plain old homemade bombs.

Are they trying to connect Iraq to this?

[karlrschneider]

20. Somewhere there must be a "think" tank that dreams up sophisticated

names for ordinary shit. Devices. WTF is that about? For hundreds of years, a device was the same thing as a gadget, a gizmo, a mechanism, an apparatus and so on. A bomb was a bomb. There were little bombs and big bombs and that pretty well covered the spectrum of bombology.

Now you can't even buy a goddamn BED - it's a "sleep system." :grr:

Toothbrush? Naw, it's a "Dental hygeine system."

bah humbug

[arbusto_baboso]

13. It was the Java Jihaders!

Or maybe not. But it's a cool name, ya gotta admit.

[xchrom]

16. Java Jihaders!

i'll go with that!:)

thank you!

[Sequoia]

24. I think you just coined a new phrase!

[A Simple Game]

25. You're right, cool name. I like it. n/t

[alcibiades_mystery]

15. An IED! ROFLMAO!!! An "improvised explosive device"!!!

Are they fucking kidding me? An editor, presumably a grown adult person of some sort, let that stupid acronym - which has previously only applied to Iraq - into this story? Oh my God, I'm pissing myself laughing.

There comes a point when blatant insults to one's intelligence become hilarious jokes, and I think I just reached it. Every bomb sent by the Unabomber was an "IED." The Oklahoma City bomb was an "IED." Hell, almost every bomb not made in a certified bomb making factory in the history of creation is a fucking "IED," now, I suppose! Give. Me. A. Fucking. Baaaaaaa-reak.

[Ben Ceremos]

37. I thought

IED was short for Intelligent Erudite Democrat.

[Karmakaze]

40. Actually they have always been called IEDs...

Just the media that likes to dumb down stories has never refered to them by their proper name.

[anotherdrew]

22. ARREST BILL O'RIELY TODAY - SEND HIS ASS TO CUBA

[meganmonkey]

26. Um - okay, this is kinda crazy

Honestly I am surprised there isn't more of this shit.

:scared:

[Sadie5]

28. Coulda been a dirty bomb

that might have turned into a mushroom cloud. And on Bush street no less. My Gawd...what's this world coming to?

[davidinalameda]

27. I think I was in that Starbucks early last month

fuck

[enki23]

29. it's usually a bad thing when bombs are "diffused"

.

[AlienGirl]

39. Only if they diffuse too quickly... nt

[jamesinca]

30. How is this connected to O'Reilly?

I don't listen to his show except for the bits that are played on the Daily Show or Al Franken, and I don't even catch all of those. I would not put it beyond him to call for this on his show, very much like Ann Coulter calls for shooting people to make an example.

[arcane1]

32. on his show...

he told al Qaeda that they can attack San Francisco all they want, don't expect us to stop them. He basically gave them his "permission"

"...If al-Qaida comes in here and blows you up, we're not going to do anything about it. We're going to say, look, every other place in America is off limits to you, except San Francisco. You want to blow up the Coit Tower? Go ahead,"

[Deja Q]

33. Bingo. It took me a moment to remember. I think the news article should be

put back up for all to remember.

[Mz Pip]

35. O'Reilly should

come to town and defuse it with his loofah. He should be required to defuse it with his loofah.

:hi:

Mz Pip
:dem:

[Moochy]

31. Peet of Peet's Coffee & Tea held for questioning?

Give me Peet's Coffee or nothing at all!! :D That Dutchman always did look a bit suspicious, may I remind you their first store was in BERKELEY?

Friends don't let friends go to Starbucks!!

[Chi-Town Exile]

36. Why do Lattes hate America? eom

[OneBlueSky]

38. what's scary is that this could happen ANYWHERE . . .

at YOUR local Starbucks, at the mall, in a movie theater, anywhere . . .

[Critters2]

49. That the beauty of Iowa

It's about 98% certain that nothing this interesting is going to happen. Blizzards, yes. Droughts, yes. Tornadoes, almost certainly. But nobody cares enough to blow up one of the three Starbucks in the state. There's something to be said for that.

[zbdent]

41. Yup . . . no terrorist attacks since 9/11

under Gee Dumbya . . .

No sniper
No Anthrax
No attacks on minorities
No KKK
. . .

Oh, but wait . . . Teachers, Quakers, and people who write letters to the editor are under strict watch . . . and a septugenarian Senator is strip-searched at the airport . . .

[jsamuel]

45. Sorry, but the only people trying to blow up a Starbucks in SF is going to

be an American. No way a foreigner would use that as a target.

[gardenista]

60. Yep. I think it's got nothing to do with international terrorism.

And probably has a lot to do with our own home-grown alienated people.

Nevertheless, it would be a terrorist act.

[David Zephyr]

51. Well, you make a point, kskiska that I hope is not overlooked.

I hope the SF City Council addresses this, too.

I had forgotten about the O'Reilly comment. Jeez.

Bill O'Reilly should apologize to everyone in San Francisco.

[Ian David]

56. Update: Police release photos of "Person of Interest"

SFPD:Person of Interest in Starbucks Bomb Case (O'Reilly still laughing?)
Topic started by IanDB1 on Jan-10-06 07:52 PM (0 replies)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=2033765


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[Redstone]

59. It's DEFUSED, not "diffused," dammit! Aren't there any editors anymore?

Defuse: To render an explosive device inoperably by removing the fuse.

Diffuse: To spread out.

Jesus. How hard is that?

Redstone