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Two Injured in Fourth Package Bombing Incident this Month in Austin, Texas

posted by martyb on Tuesday March 20 2018, @09:28AM   Printer-friendly
from the Can't-wait-for-April dept.

takyon writes:

Two people have been killed and four have been injured by explosions caused by package bombs in Austin, TX this month:

In Texas, Another Explosion Injures 2 Men In Austin

Authorities in Austin, Texas, responded to an explosion in the southwest part of the city late Sunday, with the city's emergency medical service tweeting that it caused two serious but non-life-threatening injuries.

The blast comes on the heels of three package-bomb explosions in recent weeks that have killed two people and wounded two more, as well as a bomb threat that canceled a Saturday hip-hop concert at the South by Southwest festival. It is not yet known if Sunday night's explosion is related to any of the prior incidents.

Austin's police chief Brian Manley had made a direct appeal to the bomber(s) just hours earlier.

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by VLM on Tuesday March 20 2018, @09:09PM (2 children)

    by VLM (445) on Tuesday March 20 2018, @09:09PM (#655619)

    Maybe this is related to all those stories about Amazon's new headquarters. "Psst, Amazon... heard about your new location selection, Amazon... would be a pity if all shipping deliveries stopped in our town till we get moved up the list..."

    Or Brick -n- Mortar decide to fight back against Amazon.

    I'm only about 95% kidding BTW.

    I was listening recently to a couple month old podcast on the topic of the Unibomber where the FBI spent $75M on the case with no leads whereas now with massive computer monitoring and tracking and CCTV everywhere the unibomber would have been caught on his first attempt, fairly trivially. And here's something happening over and over yet all the tech is supposedly not working every time, huh, how bout that... Sure sounds like theres a lot more to the story.

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  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Wednesday March 21 2018, @10:29AM (1 child)

    by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Wednesday March 21 2018, @10:29AM (#656019) Journal

    The FBI can't catch this guy because we don't have responsible encryption™ [soylentnews.org]. We should have let the FBI backdoor all phone encryption. What a blunder.

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    • (Score: 2) by VLM on Wednesday March 21 2018, @01:43PM

      by VLM (445) on Wednesday March 21 2018, @01:43PM (#656091)

      massive computer monitoring and tracking and CCTV everywhere the unibomber would have been caught on his first attempt, fairly trivially.

      Huh according to recent news thats pretty much how they caught the dude. Just a much slower than "it should take".

      I suspect they had pix and digital leads a LONG time before they announced, and they've probably been chasing the dude since the first explosion.