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[gofreak]

Just saw on Sky News that there are reports of an explosion at an LA airport..?

They were saying that it had been shut due to a security breach..

I don't see it on CNN. Anyone else reporting this?

edit: it's not on their site, but I'm reading it right off my TV: "Reports: Explosion at Los Angeles Airport"

edit 2: it's on their site now, no details: http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-1150158,00.html

edit 3:

ok, apparently it was a torch in an x-ray machine that blew up. phew.

 

[Desperado]

Sky News? More like SKYNET

 

[Vicious]

does torch = flashlight?

 

[open_mouth_]

I was constipated the other day... should I blame the terrorists on that too???

 

[gofreak]

Confusing. The closure of the airport seems unrelated to this torch blowing up. It seemed to be coincidental. Wonder why the airport was shut?

 

[gofreak]

I was constipated the other day... should I blame the terrorists on that too???

Hardeharhar I put a question mark beside my title, and posted this at a time when the news was literally breaking, and when it was very unclear what was happening. When you're seeing that there was a security breach, and then that there was an explosion, it's not hard to put two and two together (and I didn't, I simply wondered about the possibility)

 

[Vicious]

I am picturing a torch like Indiana Jones made out of human bones.

 

[MIMIC]

MSNBC has said that injuries have been reported.

 

[gofreak]

MSNBC has said that injuries have been reported.

A torch blowing up would hardly cause much..damage/injury? I'm wondering if they mean a torch within the x-ray machine (presuming x-rays have torches/lights etc. as components) or a torch/flashlight going through the machine> In either case I'm not sure how it would cause injury..the explosion couldn't have been that big, could it..?

 

[sprsk]

The world is, indeed, a safer place.

 

[Vicious]

torch/flashlight

A-ha! Finally an answer.

 

[Shinobi]

Guess you won't be able to bring flashlights on board flights now.

 

[Chesapeake Silt]

Hey, Pataki told us that box cutters were weapons of mass destruction at the RNC. Clearly... flashlights are WMDs too.

 

[Error Macro]

Hey, Pataki told us that box cutters were weapons of mass destruction at the RNC. Clearly... flashlights are WMDs too.

I think that he meant that the boxcutters were used to hijack the jets, turning them into weapons of mass destruction.

 

[solarplexus]

nothing on CNN yet.

 

[Shinobi]

They've had a couple reports on CNN...two seperate incidents being investigated. Though the flashlight/explosion/injury one is being denied at the moment.

Linda Stouffer is a hottie BTW...

 

[MIMIC]

CNN said that 7 injuries were reported, but that Homeland Security disputes the claim of an explosion.

 

[SickBoy]

Here's the link for CNN's Interweb story:

http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/West/09/04/lax.incident/index.html

-SB

 

[Troidal]

A separate incident about 30 minutes later shut down the airport's busy international terminal when a plastic flashlight exploded in the bag of a Japanese tourist about to board a Korean Air flight for Tokyo, Los Angeles Mayor Jim Hahn told a news conference.

Ahh, Japanese, always looking for trouble
First someone writes "suicide bomb" now this...haha

 

[Diablos]

God, I hope not.