When Faisal Shahzad allegedly drove his Nissan Pathfinder, packed with explosives, into Times Square on Saturday, he was likely aiming for a place dense with tourists, theatergoers, sidewalk hucksters, and at least one naked cowboy -- a target rich environment. Happily, thanks to a combination of Shahzad's ineptitude and a quick-witted T-shirt vendor, NYPD's crack bomb squad disabled the Rube Goldberg contraption before it could detonate.
We got lucky. But apart from larding the theater...
Published on May 04, 2010 15:15