Breaking: MSNBC, Someone has tried to drive a truck w/explosives into Nuke Plant

[Eurobabe]

I just heard it, but they gave no further info, as soon as I hear, I will update. Anyone else heard this?

Is this part of Bush's FEAR campaign to get Congress to confirm Mukasey? :eyes:

[TwilightGardener]

1. Whaaa???

[Swamp Rat]

2. BOMB IRAN!

[Richardo]

I heard it *was* Mukasey.

:tinfoilhat:

[niyad]

3. whoops--you noticed the timing, eh?

[bdamomma]

8. what's next a video from Osama?

FEAR FEAR and more FEAR.

[niyad]

4. isn't it time for another bin laden tape?

[bdamomma]

9. wow, great minds think alike!

[Dhalgren]

5. I bet the driver was killed. And that was probably not part of his deal...

[Guaranteed]

6. If true, that's bad. nt

[swag]

7. Here you go.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-11-02-az-plant_N.htm

[Eurobabe]

10. thank you, my TV is stuck on MSNBC

long story (I am viewing US TV remotely overseas). Still no further updates yet.

[Guaranteed]

12. Sounds like the OP has exaggerated things a bit. nt

[Skidmore]

20. Bull, I heard the breaking news announcement and the newsperson

had that wide-eyed scared-but-hope-I-get-a-juicy-bloody-disaster-to-cover-but-if-its-really-something-I'm-outta-here-first look about her. Proceeded to fill in some details--like the guy was stopped 3 miles from the plant a security point AND he had a scary looking pipe shaped package in the back seat of his car that made security "uncomfortable." OP was on target.

[Eurobabe]

28. Thanks Skid!

Not that I was SKEERED, just wanted to see if anyone else heard it and had more info. They made is sound so ominous.

[Eurobabe]

24. Don't blame me, blame MSNBC

I'm just reporting what they were Breaking.

Don't shoot the damn messenger! :hi:

[JackintheGreen]

14. An "unusual event" has been declared at the facility?

Well, heck...I had one of those this morning, but everything was OK after I flushed. :hurts:

[bullwinkle428]

16. Wait a minute..where's the truck bomb in the story?

Why is the MSM turning breaking news into some kind of version of the "telephone game"?

[MrCoffee]

18. LMFAO...oh, wait, was that a serious question?

my bad :blush:

[swag]

19. The invisibility of the truck makes it even more pernicious.

[Javaman]

38. Just like those mobile chem labs in iraq. lol nt

[lazyriver]

36. Story says the driver had a pipe bomb...

that's a little less serious than "a truck w/ explosives" if you ask me. I don't think anybody is going to do any really serious damage to a nuke plant with a pipe bomb.

[LSK]

44. the man had no terrorism link but he was trying to commit terrorism

:wtf:

[nadinbrzezinski]

11. But, but, but, we don't have any totalitarian tactics emplyed in

this country, really

[hatrack]

13. According to USA Today, lowest of four possible emergencies declared

Move along, nothing to see here but FEARFEARFEARFEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[swag]

15. Now updated - pipe bomb? One-hit dope pipe?

PHOENIX (AP) — The nation's largest nuclear power plant was put on lockdown Friday after a contract worker entered the facility with a small capped pipe that contained suspicious residue, authorities said.

The worker was stopped and detained at the entrance of the plant, said U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission spokesman Victor Dricks. Security officials then put the nuclear station on lockdown, prohibiting anyone from entering or leaving the facility.

The incident was considered an "unusual event" — the lowest of four emergencies the plant can declare, said Jim Melfi, an inspector with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

There was no threat to the public and the station was operating normally, said Palo Verde spokesman Jim McDonald.

[DS1]

17. I heard they dropped a nuke on a nuke plant. Then an asteroid hit it.

and that asteroid also knocked Earth into a retro-orbit and we'll hit the sun in 3 years

[malaise]

21. Update here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2191701

It's the plumber. Watergate here we come!! :rofl:

[Ezlivin]

22. "small capped pipe that contained suspicious residue..."

Hell, that residue could be pot or crack.

[malaise]

25. It cuold also be nothing more than the resin used for glue

Get the fugging duck (duct) tape and head for the basement

[librechik]

27. exactly--no truck was mentioned in the AP version.

[SoCalDem]

23. Sorry MSRNC.. I am fully engrossed in the life of Audubon right now

PBS is showing the documentary of his life & all I can say is WOW!..

[Eurobabe]

26. Detained a worker with small explosive device in back of pick-up

small capped pipe with suspicious residue.

[kestrel91316]

32. "Explosive device", my ass. Somebody probably got their panties in

a wad about Ajax residue inside something somebody wanted to clean out.

This will turn out to be NOTHING, I'm guessing.

[Eurobabe]

40. It's already gone from Terra Attack

to somebody drove the wrong car/pick up today kinda story. But of course, not before
B/C got the MSM to wet themselves over a major news event.

:eyes:

[Eurobabe]

29. Nothing to see here, move on, just some dipshit with

a possible, suspicious "pipe bomb." :shrug:

[blondeatlast]

30. The Maricopa Sheriff's Department made the call on this? I trust Sheriff Joe's boys

about as much as I trust W--hell, maybe even LESS.

Expect to see our dear, attention-whore Sheriff on the national news--and expect to see a wet spot on his pants.

[Eurobabe]

33. So they obeyed their orders from our fearless Leader?

:rofl:

[LanternWaste]

31. I have a feeling that when the dust clears

I have a feeling that when the dust clears, it will be nothing more than a maintenance worker, his lunch pail and an overzealous, right-wing security guard with a buzz-cut...

[backscatter712]

37. That's what I'm thinking.

We've been seeing a huge number of insanely overhyped false alarms.

I think it's time to start mercilessly mocking and joking and laughing at security and DHS every time they wig out and turn a triviality into a nationwide scare.

Seriously. It's time to violate the sanctity of the airport no-joke zone.

Oh no, not the bomb joke

(This article was brought up in Bruce Schneier's Schneier on Security blog

An officer frisks me with hands like questing butterflies. Up my legs they flutter, then over my buttocks, my back, my chest and along my arms, but not, I notice, over my crotch. So there's the answer. When my anger at being pointlessly searched in airports finally reaches such incandescence that I feel compelled to act, I'll tape a bomblet behind my scrotum with the detonator clenched between my cheeks. It will kill no one except myself and I won't make a pretty corpse, but I will make damn sure I take out a particular notice. You know the one I mean. It's the only notice in human history to forbid, on pain of imprisonment, the making of jokes. I am not allowed to crack a joke about bombs.

Jokes are essential to mental well-being. But all authorities hate them because jokes pierce to the truth. Jokes see through bogus seriousness and say, "oh come off it". The instinct to make jokes is a natural reaction to overweening authority.

The authorities have an obvious response. Airport security, they will say, is no laughing matter. Do I want planes to be blown up?

Well, no, but jokes won't blow them up. I acknowledge that the jokes might get tedious for the security staff, but there are plenty of professions in which bad jokes from the public are an occupational risk, not the least of which is being a columnist. And anyway, my point is that the security staff shouldn't be there to find the jokes tedious. There is no need for airport screening. (At Heathrow they even make you remove your shoes. It's an olfactory horror show.)

Someone needs to try to go on a flight wearing a clown suit. Maybe one with six pairs of shoes, each one nested inside another. Get everyone chuckling and snickering, especially about airport security, and we'll go a long ways towards that day when you no longer have to be treated like a criminal to get on an airplane.

[kerry-is-my-prez]

34. Now on CNN. Some contract worker tried to blow it up.

n/t

[kerry-is-my-prez]

35. wonder what company he was working for - Blackwater, Halliburton?

n/t

[NorthernSpy]

39. maybe some guy chose a really bad day to leave his homemade rocket...

... in his truck.


Let's not jump to conclusions. This could be anything.

[earth mom]

41. I couldn't read that story without wondering what the REAL story is.

:tinfoilhat:

[mmonk]

42. Did their license plate have RNC in it?

[opihimoimoi]

43. I thought we were to fight them over THERE??? Wha Hoppen...?

[lovuian]

45. wheres the Nuke plant?

have they said

[bklyncowgirl]

46. Message, vote Mukasey. Sounds like Schumer and Feinstein heeded the call

We'll hear later that it was all a misunderstanding or some group of morons who couldn't tie their own shoes much less blow up a nuke plant but by that time Attorney General Mukasey will be safely confirmed.