Fear has a new face: Food Trucks (terrorism implications)

[TreasonousBastard]

5. Whilst I am bemused by the hysteria, I was there when a truck blew up...

on John Street back in the 70's.

The damage was amazing, with windows blown out up to the fourth or fifth floor of neighboring buildings and if it happened during lunchtime the injury and death would have been much worse. I thought it had to be a bomb, but officially it was a propane tank that blew.

I was working a block away on the 17th floor and we heard the boom and saw debris flying past the window. We sat around wondering or a while, and by the time I got downstairs to look they had whisked the injured off to Beekman-Downtown and started to clean up the mess.

(Imagine the panic if that happened now with Homeland Security on top of it all directing a dozen agencies looking for terrorists.)