At first I thought it was the smoke from the smokers, but they put a stop to that. Then I thought it was the stink of sex, but it didn't smell like that either.
Gas leak found near site of NYC blast
However, board spokesman Eric Weiss said investigators were far from deciding what caused the explosion.
Related: N.Y. City Gas Blast Reminds Me of Past
Also see:
House passes bill to fix gas pipelines
Environmental group mapping gas leaks across Mass.
The Seeping Streets of Boston
Explosion in Springfield
Philly Fart
Frack This!
I guess that means we will all be going back to coal.
NYC fire department reaches bias settlement
Monday Morning Fart Poot
Must have been a silent one.
"Bin Laden son-in-law tells how he became spokesman" by Benjamin Weiser | New York Times March 20, 2014
NEW YORK — It was some hours after the World Trade Center towers had been toppled when Sulaiman Abu Ghaith was summoned to a meeting with Osama bin Laden. He recalled a three-hour or so drive into the night, finding the Al Qaeda leader in a cave in the mountains of Afghanistan.
Bin Laden wanted his opinion on what would happen next, Abu Ghaith recalled Wednesday. He said that he told bin Laden that he was not a military analyst, but the bin Laden pressed him.
Abu Ghaith said he told bin Laden that “America — if it was proven that you were the one who did this — will not settle until it accomplishes two things: to kill you and topple the state of Taliban.
“He said, ‘You are being too pessimistic.’
“I said, ‘You asked my opinion, and this is my opinion,’” Abu Ghaith testified.
In the weeks after the Sept. 11 attacks, Abu Ghaith served as a spokesman for bin Laden, amplifying some of his pronouncements, and giving voice, prosecutors say, to a broad recruitment drive for fighters committed to wage war on the United States. He later married one of bin Laden’s daughters.
On Wednesday, Abu Ghaith gave voice to his own cause, unexpectedly taking the stand in a federal courtroom in Manhattan to defend himself against charges that include conspiring to kill Americans and providing material support to terrorists.
Abu Ghaith is the most senior bin Laden adviser to be tried in a civilian trial in the United States since the attacks, and he offered an intimate look at bin Laden at the time of the attacks.
“We are the ones who did it,” the defendant said bin Laden told him.
Except that is a LIE because he denied it!
The decision by Abu Ghaith, a 48-year-old Kuwaiti-born cleric, to testify came two weeks into his trial in US District Court in Manhattan, where, Wednesday, the defense rested its case. The jury is expected to begin deliberations early next week.
Abu Ghaith had been in Afghanistan in 2001, delivering religious lectures in Al Qaeda training camps, he said. On Sept. 12, he testified, bin Laden invited asked him to deliver a message to the world.
Abu Ghaith recalled saying that he was new in this field.
He said bin Laden replied, “I am going to give you some points and you build around them that speech.”
In videotaped speeches, the first delivered Sept. 12, 2001, as he sat beside bin Laden, Abu Ghaith praised the Sept. 11 attacks and warned of more.
Abu Ghaith’s decision to testify gave federal prosecutors a rare chance to cross-examine someone who was so close to bin Laden, and the government took full advantage of the opportunity....
Abu Ghaith had also testified that he had no idea specifically that the Sept. 11 attacks would occur, saying he learned of them from news reports.
But on cross-examination, he admitted that in the training camps, he had heard that “something” might happen....
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Not exactly live from New York, is it?
Also see: Live From New York, It's....
A hashtag?
I hope they keep an eye on him in the cell:
"NYC inmate ‘baked to death’ in cell" by Jake Pearson | Associated Press March 20, 2014
NEW YORK — Jerome Murdough was just looking for a warm place to sleep on a chilly night last month when he curled up in an enclosed stairwell on the roof of a Harlem public housing project where he was arrested for trespassing.
A week later, the mentally ill homeless man was found dead in a Rikers Island jail cell that four city officials say had overheated to at least 100 degrees, apparently because of malfunctioning equipment.
The officials said that the 56-year-old former Marine was on antipsychotic and antiseizure medication, which may have made him more vulnerable to heat. He also apparently did not open a small vent in his cell, as other inmates did, to let in cool air.
‘‘He basically baked to death,’’ said one of the officials, who all spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not permitted to discuss specifics of the case.
The medical examiner’s office said an autopsy was inconclusive and that more tests were needed to determine Murdough’s exact cause of death. But the officials, all with detailed knowledge of the case, say initial indications from the autopsy and investigation point to extreme dehydration or heat stroke.
Advocates for mentally ill inmates in New York say the death represents the failure of the city’s justice system on almost every level: by arresting Murdough instead of finding him help, by setting bail at a prohibitive $2,500, and by not supervising him closely in what is supposed to be a special observation unit for inmates with mental illnesses.
Department of Correction spokesman Robin Campbell said in a statement that an internal investigation will look into all circumstances of Murdough’s death, ‘‘including issues of staff performance and the adequacy of procedures.’’
Campbell acknowledged that the temperature in Murdough’s cell was ‘‘unusually high’’ and that action has been taken to fix mechanical problems to ensure safe temperatures, ‘‘particularly in areas housing vulnerable inmates.’’
Murdough’s 75-year-old mother, Alma Murdough, said she did not learn of her son’s death until the Associated Press contacted her last week, nearly a month after he died.
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No mention of Mayor De Blasio in that article. Maybe he was disabled before he could grab a cab, which would be better than a fight over a bus, bicycle, car playing chicken, motorcycle (can't take on an SUV), minivan, SUV (maybe he was an undercover cop), boat, plane, chopper, or jet ski. Then they would be fishing him out of a snowbank or the pool or river.
I'm sorry I don't want to fool around with the fake farts and other toys the Globe had to offer. Better off just sending a card. Now if you will excuse me....
