Car bomb in Michigan - WTF?????

[malaise]

http://www.toledoblade.com/Police-Fire/2011/09/21/3-injured-in-car-bomb-in-Monroe-County.html
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Federal agents continue to investigate a car bomb that went off in or on a moving car on a Michigan street, seriously injuring a Sylvania attorney and his two young sons.

The powerful explosion Tuesday left nothing but a shell of the Volvo station wagon involved, and sent fire and a thick black column of smoke shooting into the air along tree-lined East Elm Avenue, which passes under I-75 about 25 miles northeast of Toledo.

Attorney Erik Chappell, 42, of LaSalle Township, Mich., and sons Grant, 13, and Cole, 11 were injured in the explosion just after 5:40 p.m.

“We have a bad accident,” the upset father told a 911 dispatcher. “My car blew up with two kids. You’ve been called on it already, but I’m telling you what is going on with my boys. I’ve got two significant leg injuries. ... They are chewed up pretty good.”

[gateley]

1. My God -- I wonder what happened??

[greytdemocrat]

2. Very strange. n/t

[TwilightGardener]

3. Crazy. Someone really wanted him dead--and his poor kids just

happened to be there. It's a miracle they all survived.

[sinkingfeeling]

4. How's his marriage? Always look at the family first.

[Historic NY]

5. "Device deliberately placed to do maximum damage"....

someone wanted them gone.

[drm604]

6. Could it be related to some case he was involved in as an attorney?

From the article it doesn't sound like he was involved in criminal law. Even so, somewhere along the way he may have angered someone involved in a lawsuit.