I'm not trying to worry anyone over the events in Austin
But frankly, I'm surprised it hasn't been the go-to for low-level terrorists sooner. And with the sixth explosion at a Goodwill just coming over the wire, the perpetrator (99% guarantee angry white loner male, think Unabomber, only dumber) is becoming more confident.
The components of a typical pipe or package bomb are all run-of-the-mill hardware store items, essentially untraceable, while the explosive can be as basic as matchsticks. Austin authorities, for some reason, have already revealed these package bombs display a certain level of sophistication, but unless we're talking C-2 and a former Mossad agent, I'm guessing young skinhead.
Here was the map after the third attack. If you believe anything about "Silence of the Lambs", remember that the virgin criminal strikes first in an environment he knows. If it was me, I would be knocking door-to-door up and down Haverford and perpendicular to Haverford, especially around the elementary school. You may not have any luck, but you could make the bad guy more paranoid that he already is. I think the FedEx bombing that occurred nearer to San Antonio today (or was identified today, the mailing likely occurred yesterday) is a diversion. And not a credible one, or a "we've widened the field of suspects to include multiple potential actors" one, despite what the perpetrator thinks.
"Let's be careful out there," Sergeant Phil Esterhaus intoned at the end of every briefing in the television series "Hill Street Blues". What that means for Estes Park residents and business people, despite your protestations that Austin is two states away, is don't open packages you aren't expecting, and shy away from anything that appears to be "tempting" you to handle or more closely examine or open it - Strange stamps, exotic or mixed-style handwriting, visible oily residue, your wife in a new negligee, anything out of the ordinary. See something, say something. Do not, despite what your friends suggest, throw a rock at it while simultaneously ducking behind a wall. Do not attempt to hose it down with water. Do not detonate a smaller explosive device next to it. Do not construct two more packages similar to it and invite strangers over to play "three box monte".
UPDATE AT 8:00 p.m. Mountain Daylight Time: False alarm. The device at the Goodwill store was not a package bomb. The city of Austin is so on edge, the default has become "assume package bomb first, correct later". Similar to Honolulu storekeepers being accidentally killed by American anti-aircraft fire after the attack on Pearl Harbor, panic is often malice's unwitting accomplice.
UPDATE AT 8:00 a.m. Mountain Daylight Time the following day: Got him. Angry - check.
White - check. Male - check. Living (temporarily) in a hotel north of Austin - Well, three out of four ain't bad. Accomplice - Nope, and those profilers who say it's possible, of course, it's always possible, he could have enlisted all the victims as part of a really nefarious, mind-twisting plan to screw with authorities and the rest of America, but trust me, this no-account acted entirely on his own. And typical, either accidentally or stupidly killed himself with his own handiwork. Went out with a fizzle, not a bang. Schizoaffective disorder, narcissitic components. Dumb as the nails he packed his bombs with.
The components of a typical pipe or package bomb are all run-of-the-mill hardware store items, essentially untraceable, while the explosive can be as basic as matchsticks. Austin authorities, for some reason, have already revealed these package bombs display a certain level of sophistication, but unless we're talking C-2 and a former Mossad agent, I'm guessing young skinhead.
Here was the map after the third attack. If you believe anything about "Silence of the Lambs", remember that the virgin criminal strikes first in an environment he knows. If it was me, I would be knocking door-to-door up and down Haverford and perpendicular to Haverford, especially around the elementary school. You may not have any luck, but you could make the bad guy more paranoid that he already is. I think the FedEx bombing that occurred nearer to San Antonio today (or was identified today, the mailing likely occurred yesterday) is a diversion. And not a credible one, or a "we've widened the field of suspects to include multiple potential actors" one, despite what the perpetrator thinks.
"Let's be careful out there," Sergeant Phil Esterhaus intoned at the end of every briefing in the television series "Hill Street Blues". What that means for Estes Park residents and business people, despite your protestations that Austin is two states away, is don't open packages you aren't expecting, and shy away from anything that appears to be "tempting" you to handle or more closely examine or open it - Strange stamps, exotic or mixed-style handwriting, visible oily residue, your wife in a new negligee, anything out of the ordinary. See something, say something. Do not, despite what your friends suggest, throw a rock at it while simultaneously ducking behind a wall. Do not attempt to hose it down with water. Do not detonate a smaller explosive device next to it. Do not construct two more packages similar to it and invite strangers over to play "three box monte".
UPDATE AT 8:00 p.m. Mountain Daylight Time: False alarm. The device at the Goodwill store was not a package bomb. The city of Austin is so on edge, the default has become "assume package bomb first, correct later". Similar to Honolulu storekeepers being accidentally killed by American anti-aircraft fire after the attack on Pearl Harbor, panic is often malice's unwitting accomplice.
UPDATE AT 8:00 a.m. Mountain Daylight Time the following day: Got him. Angry - check.
White - check. Male - check. Living (temporarily) in a hotel north of Austin - Well, three out of four ain't bad. Accomplice - Nope, and those profilers who say it's possible, of course, it's always possible, he could have enlisted all the victims as part of a really nefarious, mind-twisting plan to screw with authorities and the rest of America, but trust me, this no-account acted entirely on his own. And typical, either accidentally or stupidly killed himself with his own handiwork. Went out with a fizzle, not a bang. Schizoaffective disorder, narcissitic components. Dumb as the nails he packed his bombs with.
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