Connecticut Plates On Nissan Pathfinder Times Square Bomb Car

A savvy Vietnam Vet T-Shirt vendor short circuited an attempt to set off three propane tanks wired to clocks, fireworks and gun powder spewing smoke as an SUV was left running in times square last night. With Saturday night crowds at their peak, the abandoned late model SUV was out of place, especially with smoke coming out of rear vents. The T-shirt vendor alerted police, as he witnessed the smoke started coming out of the a dark green Nissan Pathfinder, and police quickly converged to clear out people and secure the scene. The bomb was defused and evidence collected.

The NYTimes and BBC are reporting that the license plates on the Pathfinder were Connecticut plates, not registered to the Pathfinder but instead  to a Ford pickup truck. FBI are investigating that lead. The plates are registered to someone who claims that they were on a vehicle taken to a  junkyard near Bridgeport.

This sort of raises the question why were the plates still on the vehicle? You’re supposed to return the plates to the DMV right? Otherwise you still get billed for local property taxes. Then there’s that little item about maintaining continuous insurance coverage.

  • Mr. Cheney

    Nail these sons-a-b*tches to the wall! I’ll do the rest.

  • OLD TIMER

    The junkyard is now being reported as owned by the Norwalk LeBlanc family that ran LeBlanc’s on Meadow St.

  • BLARNEY SKANK

    You know what will happen when we catch these pigs, first a ACLU lawyer will be right up their keesters telling them what to do and how to sue the United States for catching them. Then they will be incarcerated in a Hilton Hotel, and rigorously interrogated by the only means left to the FBI, and the CIA and that is to tickle their ass with a feather.

    The ACLU lawyer demands that the FBI & CIA only use imported goose down feathers of high quality softness only, and can only tickle them on the center of the cheek.

    The bombers will write a book and become millionaires and then run for Congress, or be appointed a Czar of some kind by the administration.

    • Barnstorm

      You need some serious psychological help.

  • Robert F

    Well put Blarney. Your sense of humor does well to mock a leftists’ screed posing as coherent journalism.

    • BLARNEY SKANK

      The authority’s claim that the bomber is fully cooperating with them and giving them information. DO YOU THINK he heard that the other suspects in the plot that were captured in Pakistan were being interrogated by the PAKISTANI SECRET POLICE IN A PAKISTANI PRISON?

  • Observer

    They’ve already arrested the suspected bomber. He’s a Pakistani, and he was caught attempting to flee the country. It’s all over the internet.

  • Just Me

    Gives you a nice warm feeling to know he not only lived close by but worked right here in Norwalk. He could just as easily have decided he could do almost as much damage at Stews, especially before a holiday or a snow storm!

    • BLARNEY SKANK

      Stews? I don’t think so because there is no stature in bombing a dairy store, but there is in bombing Times Square which is a part of New York City which is seen by terrorists as the United States itself.

      So much for being protected, the bomb was discovered by a street vendor, and the guy on the plane was caught as an after thought of the airline.

      This after a suspicious van was discovered in Times Square about 6 months ago and turned out to be a false alarm. Maybe it was just a test run. In fact maybe this was just a test run to see just how poor our homeland intelligence has become.

      I know there are lot of the left wing that were really upset when this guy did not turn out to be a white member of the Tea Party.

      They truly are fiddling while Rome burns, they do not seem to understand that when it burns it will burn them along with everyone else.

      • Barnstorm

        Could you please identify those “left-wingers” who are upset? Could you please identify who “they” are that are fiddling? Or are you, as usual, just blowing it out a rather unsavory orafice?

        Yeah, our homeland defense is pretty poor. They not only were able to trace the vehicle but apprehend the suspect before he fled the country. What fiddle tune was that again?

        How do you know the Times Square incident 6 months ago was a test run? Maybe the FBI ought to question you since you “know” so much. I’ll give ‘em a call and they can trace your ISP through this site.

        Nobody I know ever gave a thought that the bomber might be a teabagger. Just to assemble any kind of explosive device is usually way beyond the technical expertise of those folks.

        You really seem to have a lot of anger issues. You hate the “left” and you seem to hate them even more when they don’t respond the way you think they might. Maybe you should stop taking your cues from the babbleheads on FOX.

  • BLARNEY SKANK

    YAHOO, I hit “Lefty The Barnburner’s” Nerve right in the bullseye again.

    IIIIIIII love it, makes me know there is a god.

    OH Yes, your comment about the babbleheads on FOX, brings me to the question of does “Rachael Maddow” have her own tea bag in a padded box, that she secretly worships?

  • OLD TIMER

    HOUR now has a Norwalk address of 14 Ferris Ave for a condo he and his wife lived in and sold in April 2004. Story quotes the mayor as having checked tax records.

  • Apathetic Voter

    EEeewww, if he was living on Ferris Avenue then he certainly was attempting to stay under the radar. That’s one street in Norwalk I wouldn’t be caught dead living on – a perfect example of a pretty decent neighborhood gone to seed, and badly.

    • Ignorant

      Apathetic Voter: I can HOPE you end up living on Merritt Street with your ignorant comments. Those are peoples’ homes, whether you would be caught living there or not. Idiot-savant!

      • Apathetic Voter

        Considering I grew up on Shirley Street and still have relatives living there, I know whereof I speak.

        Do YOU?

        I also had plenty of friends who lived on Ferris Avenue back in the day (between 1962 and 1975, our school days) and remember that street as being clean, nicely kept homes and duplexes, no garbage lining the roads, no cars all over the street, well maintained rental properties. It sure isn’t like that today, and over the years we Norwalk natives have watched the deterioration with a jaundiced eye.

        It seems obvious to me by your comment that you are not a Norwalk native, and apparently don’t have a clue about what the neighborhood used to be like compared to what it is now.

        • Ignorant

          And so did I. Lived in Norwalk all my 39 years. But I don’t write things like “eeewwwww, not that neighborhood. I wouldn’t be caught dead living there”. Really, who cares where you live, as long as your happy. Grow up, and think about it. There are some people that live there that are proud of their homes, and maybe that’s all they can afford. And that they don’t need to be offended by idiot-savant like you the apathetic idiotic voter.

          • Apathetic Voter

            Yeah, you can tell by the badly maintained homes and garbage all over the street EXACTLY how proud those homeowners are. As ruffled as your feathers seem to be, I expect you are one of those “proud homeowners” yourself. Not much to be proud of , IMO.

  • IT’S OUR DAMN FAULT

    Yep, it seems that the liberal media is trying to send the message that it is the United States fault that this Islamic terrorist was forced by his life here in America to blow up innocent men, women, and children into bloody chunks of burned flesh. If that is the case can we expect a couple of million other people who’s homes were in foreclosure, to put bombs in Times Square?

    Just asking

  • OLD TIMER

    This guy was probably one of many sent here for this purpose and the homes, the jobs, and the US citizenship, were all part of his “cover” until it was time for him to act.
    His wife and children were taken home only a short while ago, suggesting this was all part of a long range plan. It will be interesting to see what they find out about his handlers in Pakistan.
    They should revoke his citizenship and treat him as a captured enemy spy.

    • My Two Cents

      Hear! Hear!

  • Barnstorm

    Wow. If the so-called “liberal media” did or said half the things these paranoid teabaggers say we’d really be in trouble, wouldn’t we?

    All these years and I haven’t yet seen one verifiable instance of a “left-wing bias” in the media. Just because the opposition says it exists doesn’t mean it does. They’re just parrotting what their deity Rush says.

    I guess Rollo…err..”Blarney” will be jubilant about getting my goat again. Glad I could give his pathetic existence some justification.

    • livingdeadgrl

      all these years and not one instance of left wing bias? how about Dan Rather and the snafu that ended his career, having to do with George Bush? That’s one glaring example just off the top of my head…

      • Apathetic Voter

        Yes, and that’s an EXCELLENT example!

        Don’t forget to add all the ridiculously inane BS being spouted by those 911 conspiracy freakos, too.

        • just asking…

          Far left? Far right? Machts nicht…achtung!!

  • BLARNEY SKANK

    I am sorry Barnburner, from your current and past remarks I must have overlooked the fact that you are not only blind but also deaf.

    There is nothing sadder than one who has ears but refuses to hear or eyes and refuses to see.

    Get a WHITE CANE & A HEARING AID Barnburner…………….

  • Barnstorm

    There is nothing sadder than one who has ears but refuses to hear or eyes and refuses to see.

    There is one thing sadder Skank….someone with a closed mind who refuses to think for themselves.

    I said I haven’t seen ONE verifiable instance of a so-called “bias”. You and others have never offered any. Based on a lack of said evidence I’d say you were just blowing it out your “Limbaugh”.

    Go back to writing your tripe in The HOUR, where nobody reads it.

    • SKANKY THE BARNBURNER

      You are one sad swollen TEABAG.

  • OLD TIMER

    It seems now they believe this bumbler or bomber has direct ties to the Taliban in Pakistan and their original claim it was their doing was accurate. We will soon see how much tougher it gets to hide out in the tribal regions near the Pakistan/Afganistan border. It sounds like our government has sent a message to Pakistan that says “either you root them out, or step aside while we do”. Pakistan seems to be trying, with some success, and a lot of US support. It may well be a matter of honor for them to clean up their own back yard. That tribal region has never really been subdued by anybody and each tribe seems to run it’s own territory as if there was no central government in the country. The geography gives long-time residents a distinct advantage in guerilla warfare. It is very difficult to identify Taliban when they hide in plain sight alongside innocent civilians.

  • REMEMBER

    The saying from the Vietnam war 101 st. Airborne? “Kill Em all and let God sort them out.”

    Oops I mean Allah

  • just asking…

    Just read that the origin of that phrase is the assault on the Cathars of southern France by the followers of Pope Innocent III in 1208. Per this Sunday’s NY Times Travel section…” The crusader monk Armond Amaury famously told his troops, when asked whom to spare, ‘Kill them all, God will know his own.’ “. Thus, the brutal murder of more than 15,000 men, women and children in Beziers because they worshipped God in a way that the Church (at the time) found to be “wrong.” Interesting, eh?

  • BLARNEY

    Not to mention the destruction of the Knights Templar in 1307, by Philip IV of France. He didn’t say anything except “I want all their money, I’ll sort it out.”

    Those French are such fun guys.