{"id":3285,"date":"2008-03-28T08:33:06","date_gmt":"2008-03-28T13:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/03\/ce_nest_pas_une_bombe.html"},"modified":"2008-03-28T08:33:06","modified_gmt":"2008-03-28T13:33:06","slug":"ce_nest_pas_une_bombe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/03\/ce_nest_pas_une_bombe.html","title":{"rendered":"Ce N&#8217;est Pas Une Bombe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A malfunctioning science project forces its owner to go into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/ny_local\/brooklyn\/2008\/03\/28\/2008-03-28_straphangers_school_science_project_smok.html\">full Magritte mode to calm fellow subway riders<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>A school science project that went awry and caused smoke to billow from a student&#8217;s backpack sent panicked B train riders scurrying for the exits Thursday in Brooklyn.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is not a bomb! This is not terror!&#8221; yelled Gregory Kats, 29, a computer engineering student at the New York City College of Technology. <\/p>\n<p>Kats, 29, was heading home from school when wires on a device he had built short-circuited in his backpack, he told the Daily News afterward.<\/p>\n<p>When white smoke began spiraling out of his backpack as the train neared the Seventh Ave. station in Park Slope, riders quickly became alarmed, he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They were panicking, and I realized their fear,&#8221; an apologetic Kats said at his Sheepshead Bay home.<\/p>\n<p>They &#8220;started to jump out of the train&#8221; as soon as it stopped at the platform and the doors opened, Kats said. <\/p>\n<p>He said he tried to disassemble the contraption on the platform even as he reassured riders, &#8220;Don&#8217;t worry. This is my science project.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A malfunctioning science project forces its owner to go into full Magritte mode to calm fellow subway riders: A school science project that went awry and caused smoke to billow from a student&#8217;s backpack sent panicked B train riders scurrying for the exits Thursday in Brooklyn. &#8220;This is not a bomb! This is not terror!&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brooklyn","category-makes_jack_bauer_scream_dammit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}