{"id":5965,"date":"2010-05-03T06:58:21","date_gmt":"2010-05-03T11:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=5965"},"modified":"2010-05-03T06:58:21","modified_gmt":"2010-05-03T11:58:21","slug":"if_this_had_been_24_you_would_have_had_to_wait_until_netflix_delivered_the_second_disc_before_the_president_even_found_out_about_the_threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2010\/05\/if_this_had_been_24_you_would_have_had_to_wait_until_netflix_delivered_the_second_disc_before_the_president_even_found_out_about_the_threat.html","title":{"rendered":"If This Had Been 24, You Would Have Had To Wait Until Netflix Delivered The Second Disc Before The President Even Found Out About The Threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2010\/05\/see_something_say_something_then_go_observe_it.html\">we suspected<\/a>, the timeline for the Times Square Car Bomb was a little . . . <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/ny_crime\/2010\/05\/03\/2010-05-03_times_square_car_bomb_scare_how_events_unfolded.html\">extended<\/a>, as the Daily News shows:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>6:28 p.m.: Video surveillance camera records the Nissan Pathfinder driving west on 45th St.<\/p>\n<p>6:34 p.m.: Times Square street vendor notices the suspicious vehicle and flags down Officer Wayne Rhatigan, who is patrolling on horse. Rhatigan calls in a report of a car fire, and flags down additional officers.<\/p>\n<p>6:40 p.m.: Engine 54 and Ladder 4 is the first FDNY unit to respond.<\/p>\n<p>Approximately 6:47: Bomb squad arrives, cops begin evacuating Times Square.<\/p>\n<p>7 p.m.: Commissioner Raymond Kelly, attending White House correspondents&#8217; dinner in Washington with Mayor Bloomberg, first learns of the incident.<\/p>\n<p>8 p.m.: Kelly tells Bloomberg of the incident.<\/p>\n<p>8:30 p.m.: Many Broadway shows, including hits &#8220;The Lion King,&#8221; &#8220;Next to Normal&#8221; and &#8220;Come Fly Away&#8221; start late.<\/p>\n<p>9 p.m.: The Marriott Marquis, across the street from the car bomb, begins evacuating guests from its south tower.<\/p>\n<p>10:40 p.m.: Kelly fully debriefs Bloomberg as the dinner ends. They decide to return to New York immediately.<\/p>\n<p>10:45 p.m.: President Obama is notified of the situation.<\/p>\n<p>11 p.m.: Bloomberg and girlfriend Diana Taylor leave correspondents dinner. They get in an SUV and head for the airport, where they board one of the mayor&#8217;s two private French-made tri-engine Dassault Falcon 900 jets. Kelly soon joins him.<\/p>\n<p>11:30 p.m.: Bomb is considered dismantled by NYPD. Broadway shows begin letting out. Some shows direct theatergoers out back alley exits. Theatergoers at &#8220;God of Carnage&#8221; are held from leaving for 15 minutes.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So had this been a real terrorist attack, the timeline might go like this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>6:28 p.m.: Video surveillance camera records the Nissan Pathfinder driving west on 45th St.<\/p>\n<p>6:29 p.m.: Since video surveillance does little to actually prevent crime versus merely helping investigators afterward understand what happened, a vendor and hundreds others on the street are killed by a massive car bomb.<\/p>\n<p>6:34 p.m.: Shit goes bananas and people start really freaking out.<\/p>\n<p>7 p.m.: Commissioner Raymond Kelly, attending White House correspondents&#8217; dinner in Washington with Mayor Bloomberg, first learns of the incident, but neither can really do much since they&#8217;re stuck like three hours away in D.C.<\/p>\n<p>8 p.m.: Hopefully Broadway theaters extend their customary five to ten minute delay to accommodate stragglers and latecomers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we suspected, the timeline for the Times Square Car Bomb was a little . . . extended, as the Daily News shows: 6:28 p.m.: Video surveillance camera records the Nissan Pathfinder driving west on 45th St. 6:34 p.m.: Times Square street vendor notices the suspicious vehicle and flags down Officer Wayne Rhatigan, who is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-makes_jack_bauer_scream_dammit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5965","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=5965"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5966,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5965\/revisions\/5966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}