'Homemade' explosive that sounded 'like a cannon' blows off student's foot in Central Park

[Nomadum]

A "homemade" explosive left in Central Park for more than 24 hours blew off the foot of a college student Sunday, authorities said, raising fears on the eve of the Fourth of July.

Connor Golden, 18, of Fairfax, Va., had just climbed down off a rock near E. 60th St. and Fifth Ave. about 10:52 a.m. when he stepped on the “shock-sensitive” explosive, Lt. Mark Torre, the commanding officer of the NYPD’s Bomb Squad, said. It was inside a black plastic bag when it exploded, a high-ranking police source said.

A disintegrated matchbook was found nearby, leading investigators to believe that someone tried to set it off sometime on Friday, but left it behind when it didn’t work, the high-ranking police source said.

There was no evidence the incident was connected to terrorism, NYPD Deputy Chief John O’Connell said. Police officials believe it is an isolated incident.


“The explosion could have been an experiment with fireworks or homemade explosives,” O’Connell said. “We believe this could have been put here as some sort of experiment.”

One witness said the victim’s foot was “all but gone.”

Another said the blast sounded “like a cannon.”


Two friends in the park with Golden — Thomas Hinds, 20, and Matthew Stabile, 18 — went into shock after the bizarre blast. None of the three are considered suspects by the police.

Hinds, a student at Northwestern University, had just stepped off a large rock in the park with Golden behind him when the blast went off.

“I got down the hill and boom, my ears were ringing. I felt a wave. A gust hit me in the back,” Hinds told the Daily News in an interview from the 19th Precinct stationhouse.

“I turned around and saw him on the ground with his foot bleeding. It just demolished his foot. His foot was mutilated.”

Golden groaned on the ground but remained conscious.

“His foot was gone and he handled it pretty well,” Hinds said. “He’s a tough guy. ... All he said was, ‘Get help.’”

Hinds repeatedly insisted the group had no fireworks or other explosives — something he’d told detectives police for over an hour and a half.

“It seemed like he stepped on something that was pressure-sensitive,” Hinds said.

NYPD spokesman J. Peter Donald tweeted there is no credible threat “to NYC or the Fourth of July festivities.”

[Read more at http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york...entral-park-severs-man-leg-article-1.2697682]

 

[88m3]

messed up idk what to think honesty


feel bad for the kid whatever the result

 

[JahFocus CS]

Ban fireworks
Ban anything potentially explosive
Ban matches
Ban stoves
Ban fire

 

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sounds like some homemade fireworks got real...its unfortunate but i dont buy the kids story tho

 

[88m3]

sounds like some homemade fireworks got real...its unfortunate but i dont buy the kids story tho

exercising his militia rights...

 

[88m3]

@Aelyas en passant in here sounding like some sort of tyrannical Fed

Whats your id number, Agent?

 

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@Aelyas en passant in here sounding like some sort of tyrannical Fed

Whats your id number, Agent?

I wish bruh...they have superb benefits or so i heard

Nah the kids story is that they came across a partially buried device,hidden in the woods last night...In that large area by chance somehow

no fuse,no tripwires and somehow set it off...HOW...if it was that unstable it would have gone off way earlier..gunpowder doesnt just blow on its own..it aint nitroglycerin.

 

[tmonster]

Ban fireworks
Ban anything potentially explosive
Ban matches
Ban stoves
Ban fire

this is too flawed, you are very exposed

 

[JahFocus CS]

this is too flawed, you are very exposed

Ban vague posts

 

[ORDER_66]

Sounds like someone was fukking around and landed on some sort of land mine...

 

[tmonster]

Ban vague posts

c'mon breh
you wrote ban fireworks
popo sittin on the pen/ny border arresting people for buying fireworks all weekend
so if you want to trade american philosopho-legal approaches between guns and fireworks, it's a deal

 

[88m3]

I wish bruh...they have superb benefits or so i heard

Nah the kids story is that they came across a partially buried device,hidden in the woods last night...In that large area by chance somehow

no fuse,no tripwires and somehow set it off...HOW...if it was that unstable it would have gone off way earlier..gunpowder doesnt just blow on its own..it aint nitroglycerin.

well it rained the night before so I'd think that would limit the type of device...

lots of crazy nerdy people in nyc I'd imagine or the kids could have just been being shyt heads like kids are.

 

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well it rained the night before so I'd think that would limit the type of device...

lots of crazy nerdy people in nyc I'd imagine or the kids could have just been being shyt heads like kids are.

Central park is huge tho...what are the odds that these kids "randomly" found the one thing there that is more dangerous than a den of skunks within a few hours of it being hidden there.

 

[88m3]

Central park is huge tho...what are the odds that these kids "randomly" found the one thing there that is more dangerous than a den of skunks within a few hours of it being hidden there.

it's pretty big but it's not like walking in a national park or something, there are only so many areas that are off the beaten path and idk how many people visit central park a day but think about it.

same could be said of getting mugged or raped but it happens...

 

[Orbital-Fetus]

Central park is huge tho...what are the odds that these kids "randomly" found the one thing there that is more dangerous than a den of skunks within a few hours of it being hidden there.

on a nice day Central Park gets so many people running visiting it.
i doubt there is a square foot of land there that is not walked upon in any 3 day period during the summer.