I don't think anyone posted this yet. Police officers sweeping the downtown Nashville area to get people to evacuate. This is video from one of their body cams. At 2:15, the officers walk right by the RV. ". . . that building that it's next to is the building that houses all the hardlines for phones throughout the southeast." "Makes sense. Good spot to put a bomb." At 3:52, the bomb detonates.
That bodycam perspective really shows how far a blast travels straight up a street. Fuck. There is nothing “cinematic” about it. It’s instantaneous and ugly.
I love that articles keep saying “for reasons that may never be known, the recording switched to Petula Clark’s ‘Downtown’ minutes before the blast” or something similar. May never be known? Crazy dude with a death wish making a joke, anybody with any type of sense of humor can understand that.
He was in the RV. Maybe he just got tired of hearing that damn recording and popped in his Oldies CD. ETA: Spoiler: Lyrics When you're alone and life is making you lonely You can always go downtown When you've got worries, all the noise and the hurry Seems to help, I know, downtown Just listen to the music of the traffic in the city Linger on the sidewalk where the neon signs are pretty How can you lose? The lights are much brighter there You can forget all your troubles, forget all your cares So go downtown Things will be great when you're downtown No finer place for sure, downtown Everything's waiting for you Don't hang around and let your problems surround you There are movie shows downtown Maybe you know some little places to go to Where they never close downtown Just listen to the rhythm of a gentle bossa nova You'll be dancing with 'em too before the night is over Happy again The lights are much brighter there You can forget all your troubles, forget all your cares So go downtown Where all the lights are bright, downtown Waiting for you tonight, downtown You're gonna be alright now, downtown Downtown Downtown And you may find somebody kind to help and understand you Someone who is just like you and needs a gentle hand to Guide them along So maybe I'll see you there We can forget all our troubles, forget all our cares So go downtown Things will be great when you're downtown Don't wait a minute more, downtown Everything is waiting for you, downtown Downtown (downtown) Downtown (downtown) Downtown (downtown) Downtown (downtown) Also, I didn't know Petula Clark was still alive (88).
Or maybe the guy just had a sick and twisted sense of humour. I could totally see that song playing as the soundtrack for a pre-explosion montage for The Boys or something similar.
So, the Nashville suicide bomber believed in conspiracy theories involving lizard people and 5G. Color me shocked.
One of my favorite movies (Flight of the Intruder) kind of did it, it was the first thing I thought of when I heard the news.
... me too. Do we know anything more about the reports of shooting before the bomb went off? Was he trying to scare people away or something?
I've heard theories that the shots may have been recordings. As far as why, it seems pretty obvious he was trying to get LEOs into the area either to help evacuate the area or target them. Or both.
Their safety distances and SOPs are rubbish. An unknown IED is done by volume calculations, no way those vehicles aren't inside the blast radius. Whoever trained them did a junk job.
Yeah. Kind of my point. Although I’m by no means an expert, I’ve seen enough shit blow up on Mythbusters and enough shockwave porn to know it was wrong. Assuming it was legit.
Although I haven't done the IED disposal course, explosive ordnance disposal has been my area of work for the last three years. The wandering down to play with the robot is super sketchy, they didn't even look like they were suited up, suspected IED and you are straight in the suit.
No charges against the police in shooting of Jacob Blake. I'm sure there will be no riots or anything in Kenosha.