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October 21, 2005 10:11 AM

Explosion rocks downtown Washington D.C.
posted by grateful (26 comments total)

Is this for real? All these sources only mention a suspicious vehicle for now.
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 10:13 AM on October 21, 2005

Not according to your links. What gives?
posted by Wolfdog at 10:13 AM on October 21, 2005

Bomb threats I see - where's the fire?
posted by dash_slot- at 10:14 AM on October 21, 2005

Has the race to be the first to post gone so far that we preemptively post things that might happen?
posted by Keith Talent at 10:14 AM on October 21, 2005

Doesn't sound like it exploded.
posted by cmonkey at 10:14 AM on October 21, 2005

Police just disrupted a suspicious package in a car parked outside the Capitol.
posted by grateful at 10:14 AM on October 21, 2005

unless you heard the explosion personally directly..I dunno how you infer explosion.
posted by elpapacito at 10:14 AM on October 21, 2005

I live a block from there, and I have not been rocked. There wasn't an explosion.
posted by brownpau at 10:15 AM on October 21, 2005

Metafilter: inferring explosions
posted by elpapacito at 10:15 AM on October 21, 2005

Well, you made us look.
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 10:16 AM on October 21, 2005

boo to poster
posted by freudianslipper at 10:16 AM on October 21, 2005

I would like to invite you all to my post, one thread back.
posted by sciurus at 10:16 AM on October 21, 2005

What a goddamned waste of an FPP.

If you say there's an explosion, there had better fucking be an explosion.
posted by wakko at 10:17 AM on October 21, 2005

Explosion Rocks D.C.: No Actual Explosion Required.
posted by Scooter at 10:17 AM on October 21, 2005

Post flagged as "noise"; you're welcome.
posted by alumshubby at 10:18 AM on October 21, 2005

I'm sure he's grateful.
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 10:19 AM on October 21, 2005

grateful, may the gods piss on your face for your FPP.

do you lack the ability to differentiate between perceived and real events?
posted by Busithoth at 10:19 AM on October 21, 2005

I hope that car explodes soon, for grateful's sake.
posted by I Love Tacos at 10:19 AM on October 21, 2005

Lexington Ave bet. 41st and 42nd was just closed off due to a suspicious package too. (it was a briefcase, and they reopened the street a little later)
posted by amberglow at 10:19 AM on October 21, 2005

My package is looking pretty suspicious this morning, too. Maybe we should cordon off the area.
posted by wakko at 10:21 AM on October 21, 2005

I don't think I've ever gone so far as to argue that a post shouldn't have been made. I'm not interested so much in seeing what a group of people considers to be the best of the web as I am in seeing what that group of people chooses to do with a collaborative weblog. So if you post, you know, an interview with one of the stars of Queer Eye, I'm not going to object. I mean, I'm not going to read the article or participate in the thread, but I'm also not going to flag it or complain to anyone. I just don't consider its presence a problem. I'm never in favor of deletions, even if I think the post is obnoxious or even a cover for an advertising campaign (happens every once in a while).

This post, though, really ought to be deleted. I mean, seriously. For a second, I thought we were experiencing 9-11, the sequel. I think this crosses the line. At the very least, change the wording of the lead in.
posted by Clay201 at 10:22 AM on October 21, 2005

At least it wasn't a one-link post.
posted by brownpau at 10:23 AM on October 21, 2005

Are you trying out for a position at Fox news?
posted by 2sheets at 10:23 AM on October 21, 2005

seriously, I got chased out of the subway this morning by MTA cops, followed by acrid clouds of smoke. even those cops didn't yell fire. (just, 'it's closed!')

even in the 1st amendment right to ghoulishness, this fails the test.
posted by Busithoth at 10:26 AM on October 21, 2005

In other news, the Partridge Family is reported to be "just about" to rock and roll, baby.
posted by kozad at 10:27 AM on October 21, 2005

There's a traffic cam two blocks away that is zooming in on the scene, so you can watch it live. I haven't been able to figure out how to link directly, so you'll need to go to the traffic cam site and click on the green dot at 3rd and Constitution.

By the way, I work just on the other side of Capitol Hill, and I live on Constitution, though about a mile and a half away.
posted by MrMoonPie at 10:27 AM on October 21, 2005