9/3/09 Taxi Cab Explosion

[efd274]

Location: vicinity 7th Avenue and 53 St.

http://wcbstv.com/topstories/taxi.cab.explosion.2.1161763.html

 

[catry]

Sounds like a typical case of the media making a mountain out of a molehill.  A 5-7 signal most likely handled that.

 

[mac8146]

Always amazes me that a routine car fire is an explosion in manhattan making page 3 in papers, whereas in the other boroughs its a simple car fire 1 engine 1 truck no muss no fuss.

 

[nfd2004]

I certainly have to agree with "MAC8146". A car fire in Times Sq with tires exploding would hit the news a lot quicker than even a dozen cars burning and tires exploding just a few miles away. Maybe only a few blocks away. Now put that same car fire on my suburban Connecticut street and everybody would be out there watching and it would be the talk of the neighborhood for a week. Put that car fire on Bailey Ave in the Bronx and its news for the block for maybe ten minutes, then forgotten about. Similar incidents with very different outcomes.

 

[efd274]

Well summarized nfd2004 - Didn't the late Tip O'Neill from Massachusetts always say politics is always "local"?

 

[RatPack2]

Ah yes, and it is on youtube with music and all:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoplMEJ-vUA

 

[nfd2004]

Nice find there "Ratpack". Or did you take it in during a Midtown Buff Trip ?  (NFD2004 AKA - Willy "D")