Early Christmas Nashville Explosion
The aftermath of the Nashville explosion. Local and federal authorities are investigating. (The Associated Press)
Nashville authorities report what appears to be a vehicle based explosion that occurred early Christmas morning. The explosion damaged buildings, vehicles, and other property in the immediate area. Additionally, residents felt the explosion from where they were at the time of the explosion. One resident described the windows as having exploded “into the next room”.
From the New York Post:
Mayor John Cooper, who toured the scene, described broken glass and water mains with insulation “blown up” into the trees.
“It looks like a bomb went off,” said Cooper, adding that the downtown area will be “sealed off” during the investigation and to make sure everything is “completely safe.”
“One more event in Nashville’s 2020,” the mayor said.
Buck McCoy, who lives nearby, posted videos on Facebook that show water pouring down the ceiling of his home, CNN reported. People are heard shouting in distress as alarms blare in the background.
McCoy said the windows of his home were completely blown out.
“All my windows, every single one of them got blown into the next room. If I had been standing there it would have been horrible,” he said.
“There were about four cars on fire. I don’t know if it was so hot they just caught on fire, and the trees were all blown apart,” McCoy said.
Federal agencies are working with local authorities to investigate this explosion. Thanks to Devtun for the story.
Category: Crime
PantyFags getting in last minute 2020 bombings before the New Year.
What?
Who are you talking about?
I don’t even want to google that.
Nice try Commissar Dumkopf, but you know full well who that is referring to.
But, I’ll just say that I am not convinced the antifactists you support are competent to pull this off.
But 2020 has been a year of your looter brigade showing us how vile, violent, and vexatious you can be.
Mostly useless but mainly worthless.
Ah, Antifa.
You guys have zero clue what the hell Antifa is and is and what it is not.
But you certainly come up with new names for them at a steady rate.
You’re the one faking defensively as if you weren’t thinking the same thing. What a see thru Asshole you are!
You came running like someone blew a Commissar call. And acting exceedingly gleeful. Merry Christmas, you despicable miserable fraud.
There is nothing gleeful about my tone or frame of mind.
Perhaps, you are projecting.
I’m hoping no one was hurt. Nashville is a trip and a half, from what I can remember.
It’s strange, the whole city smells like it’s charcoal-filtered.
Hopefully they catch the d-bag, and I REALLy hope this ain’t terrorisms.
Snowflakes are snowflaking
Yeah, pretty sure this was a white nationalist “patriot” thing.
So definitely a snowflake,
And if and when you’re wrong, will you FINALLY STFU and go away?
Jesus, you’re a fucking boorish dolt. How about we find out who did it first?
And that goes for finger pointers on either side. Whoever did this needs fucking publicly curb stomped.
If being wrong was enough to be silent on this forum than there would be nobody left but the crickets.
You continued existence here merely proves that theory is complete bullshit.
You have reading comprehension issues.
You have issues, period.
A Antifa snowflake????
Cooking meth ???
Richard Jewel Much?
Early reporting was that is was a car….now I hear it was an RV.
Meth Lab?
Sovereign citizen?
We really have a screwed up society at this point.
Dominion servers
Oh, is that where people believe they are located?
Someone sending a warning to dominion?
More likely pAntifa socialists sending a message against Christmas or a mobile meth lab… either way society degenerates.
BTW, Dominion Voting Systems HQ is in Toronto, Canada and Denver, Colorado.
Smartmatic Corp has their HQ in London, England. They advertised recently (August 2020) seeking to hire more software programmers for their operations in Serbia. It develops software in-house in offices in the United States, Canada, and Serbia.
No. This was not Antifa.
It is absurd that you guys have fear mongered yourself into believing Antifa is a threat.
No data. Just fear.
As usual.
The irony of you castigating anyone for commenting when they have “no data” is monumental.
As is the hypocrisy.
If he is so sure it wasn’t an Antifa op, he must be a member and key player. Maybe he is their national operations officer, with that kind of inside info.
If pAntifa is not a threat why have so many downtown stores, as an example, in Seattle and Portland, closed down for good.
Over 100 stores downtown in Seattle alone GONE, taking over 47,000 jobs. Macy’s, gone after 90 years… Columbia Sportswear, gone, Bartell drugs downtown store, gone after 80 years. THE ONLY downtown grocery store, with all those high rise apartments, GONE!
Home Depot and Lowes ARE making a killing selling plywood to board up all the storefronts jacking up costs for home construction with the short supply.
Not to mention the pallets of pavers that show up miraculously ahead of antifa “rallies”
Antifa
Where are you getting that this was Antifa?
A meme? A trump tweet?
*YAWN*, yeah, blame President Trump yet again, you are SO predictable, Major Moonbat!!!
It’s your snowflake buddy’s from antepa
It is not though.
I don’t even have to google to check.
I know it is not.
Don’t believe what pAntifa buds tell you.
Could be ChiCom disinformation.
There was a “warning” of a Nashville bombing posted in June 2020, claiming that “Islam” was goig to set off a nuclear bomb July 18, 2020.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-tennessean-newspaper-runs-ad-claiming-islam-bomb-nashville/
Someone spent a hefty amount of money to post that advertisement, all for nothing, other than directing ATF/FBI attention their way.
Ground zero of today’s bomb is an unremarkable warehouse type of office buiding located at 185 Second Avenue. That happens to be a major communications hub for AT&T communications. (NOT the tall pretty “Batman” office building a few blocks away, this building is an almost totally windowless red brick multistory structure).
Probably not a coincidence.
Cui bono?
Sonny’s brother? Or an Irish singer?
If Verizon is responsible…
Note on the above… if recent times have shown us anything, it’s that people acting like ‘snowflakes’ are on both ends of the political spectrum.
The place is full of ballots?
A protocol switch station for the gore net
It might be time to start building a scafold. So when we catch them we can rehabilitate them.
Am I the only one noting the gleefulness of our resident commie who appears to be hoping/signaling this act of terror on Christmas morning is not the work of Muslims, Antifa, BLM or any of the usual suspects?
Those of us with people we love in Nashville don’t appreciate it.
Agreed. And those of you pointing fingers right now, you suck. All of you.
I concur, and Major Moonbat was probably “creaming his jeans” and hyperventilating while he posted his drivel!
How are they the usual suspects?
The leading cause of domestic terrorism in the US is white nationalist groups.
That is a justice department fact.
They have been the leading cause of terrorist attacks since 2010 and where back in the 90s as well.
In fact white nationalists and Christian extremists combined account for more domestic attacks than all other ideologies, religions, and groups combined.
Also, I am not a commie. You are just regurgitating nonsense to fit in.
You don’t need to try to fit in. Just take every major issue of the modern era… then choose to be on the wrong side of it. Especially if doing so ignores science, data, history, or facts…
You will fit right in.
You nailed it with the “usual suspects line”. Absolutely empirically on the wrong side of the data and history.
Tales from the Hood.
Facts, details, and reliable sources, otherwise just another SPAPOS squawking “ORANGE MAN BAD! ORANGE MAN BAD!”
While nearly every single comment of yours is wrong, the most wrong states I am “regurgitating nonsense to fit in”.
We’ll skip your opinion on what is and is not nonsense, as I am reasonably certain your thoughts will just make me giggle.
Let’s ask the TAH crowd and powers that be…
Am I “trying” to fit in? Or, as the powers that be know my real-world identity feel I do, actually, fit in? They also know why it is critically important I use a pseudonym here and in fact have asked that I do so.
And all of this misses the point, as usual, of my comment which was to call you out for unseemly, distasteful and dishonorably gleeful comments while the casualty count was still unknown.
If this turns out to be an actual “Right” wing lunatic, no one here will wax poetic about the systemic injustice, blah, blah, blah, that motivated the perpetrator…which you and your ilk do every time the perpetrators are your philosophical brethren. To our way of thinking, believing and living, there is no motivation that justifies acts of terror, extremism, violence against innocents or destruction of property.. So, “fitting in” here puts me in good company. I actually know, believe in and strive to live by words like honor, decency, compassion, accountability, intellectual honesty, integrity and responsibility, as does most everyone else, with you providing a notable exception, here at TAH. Yeah, pretty good company indeed.
OAM all of us miscreanted ne’er-do-well d’weeds are ever so proud that our Most Adorable Deplorable does fit in.
We wouldn’t have it any other way. And I wouldn’t waste too much keyboard ribbon ink on the spapos by confusing his spapos self with the facts. His mind, what little he has, is made up.
Once again commie is cherry picking numbers. The facts are Islamic terrorists account for 98% of those killed and injured in attacks in the last 20 years. If we go back to 1993, when it first starting becoming a thing in the US they only about 95%.Also they accounted for 95% of all property and infrastructure damage.
Prior to DS/DS, we didn’t see much in the US as the Palestinians and their supporters didn’t want to upset the US.
Fun fact: There has only been one successful Islamic attack since Trump has been in office. The SA pilot who shot up Pensacola while here on training.
Volume wise the commie is near correct. But let’s face it, a population that represents 1% of the US accounting for 35% of the attacks is little bit of an outlier statically. The US is mostly made up of white people these days so it should be unsurprising that they account for the majority of attacks. However we are generally not talking about the brightest bulbs on the tree and they lack state sanctioned support, unlike Jihadists so they tend to fail much more often than they succeed.
Also, there is nothing gleeful about my frame of mind or tone.
Like there was nothing gleeful or gloating about your tone when you were so happy the coronavirus was only killing old people?
I believe he was celebrating the impending doom of “Boomers”.
No.
The entire point of that entire discussion was to convince you all to wear masks to protect yourself and your families.
So I was not gleeful of you al dying, dipshit.
The fact that you chose to interpret that conversation in the fuckwit way you have is just more manufactured bullshit spin.
I seem to recall you were doing your little death dance before the mask mandates.
Funny, ain’t it, that in the summer, the numbers were fairly controlled, but now that we have mask mandates, it’s totally out of control, to hear the talking heads prattle on?
Nope. I was on here telling you all the virus was real and to wear a mask before the mandates.
Actually, Commissar Durak, I’m reasonably sure that the comment and related discussion NHSparky is referring to was one of these two. Both occurred in comments to the same article discussing the Wuhan coronavirus.
https://valorguardians.com/blog/?p=96866#comment-3279483
https://valorguardians.com/blog/?p=96866#comment-3279585
Those comments are from 11 March. There’s no mention I can find in any of the comments to that article regarding masks. Further, my recollection is that little or no discussion of masks had occurred in commentary at TAH before/on that date, nor had any mask mandates been issued anywhere in the US.
You can, of course, prove me wrong by finding such a discussion here at TAH prior to 11 March which includes a comment where you advised everyone they should wear masks. I won’t hold my breath waiting, though.
FWIW: I’m reasonably certain that no one here ever doubted that the Wuhan coronavirus was “real” – the fact that it killed a sh!tload of people in China and caused the PRC to lockdown the entire city of Wuhan was well known here on 11 March. What was under discussion was the severity of the virus.
Also FWIW: the 1918-1921 “Spanish Flu” pandemic is estimated to have killed around 675k in the US. The population of the US at the time was around 1/3 of today’s figure. That means the Wuhan coronavirus would need to kill roughly 2M to have the same population impact (in terms of US deaths) as the “Spanish Flu” pandemic.
While it’s going to be more severe than I first guessed, I rather doubt the US will see anywhere near 2M dead. I could easily be wrong.
He won’t look for any comments, if he found them, he wouldn’t post them anyway. Remember, nobody believes anything that poor little Larsie posts.
Commissar, please take notes and at least make an attempt to keep your lies straight.
Not enough notebooks in the whole wide world.
In Lars’ mind, he’s telling the truth and we’re the ones that are wrong… he’s a pathological liar and hates to be called out on it.
About the only thing any of us can say at this point is this doesn’t appear to be accidental. Unless it was, but those odds are not so great.
Maybe it was the Chinese bat flu.
There was a warning before hand via a street alert system, unclear who initiated the alarm but reason dictates it was LEOs.
My $0.02 from looking at the videos and damage field, high velocity, low power, inefficient (smoke and secondary burn in the smoke cloud) explosive like flash powder, maybe black powder with added stuff. FP is cheap enough to make but the balls on whoever made that quantity… or stupid. Let’s go with stupid.
propane fuel-air? The vehicle fuel tank contents and other combustibles add “flavor” to the resultant cloud, yes?
It never ceases to amaze me how big a kaboom can result from a room or three just-right-full of natural gas when the inevitable spark occurs. If the whole house is gassed, wow. Propane leak in the barn is similar.
Too soon to point fingers, folks. Any early “indicators” may be red herrings. And “lunatic” is often more “nuts” than ideology.
Amish Anarchists?
Given target selection, a dumbass fighting the technocratic elite, “keepin’ them from turning the freakin frogs gay” would be my guess.
AT&T and the 5G networks are considered in some circles to be part of the big plan, man.
These server buildings are all over the place, I’d stay the f away if you’ve a choice.
I always give these things a good 72 hours or more before I listen to anything coming out of the media magpies.
A very sound policy.
At a minimum.
👍👍
Supposedly the RV was announcing the message.
No real crater to speak of but did put a hole in the wall of that ATT switch farm.
Odd.
https://youtu.be/iag6cTWpgq8
May God watch over all who were injured! Sounds like one firefighter who was helping clear the area, and maybe four other people. Haven’t heard anything on severity of injuries…
A LEO on TV is speculating that it was an attempted ambush of police. Shots were fired in an attempt to lure first responders to the scene prior to the explosion.
This actually makes sense.
Maybe it was a BLM aligned actor.
For once, I can agree with you. As I recall BLM and/or sympathetic actors have used that tactic in the past.
Still: we don’t know squat at this point. Hopefully we’ll know more soon.
Unfortunately, based on recent history I seriously doubt that “justice” will be either swift or complete if the perps are identified and caught.
Well, NBC news just claimed that “human remains” were found in the middle of the blast area, perhaps where the RV sat. Maybe someone in the RV got some “justice”.
That would be a good thing IMO – if it’s one of the perps.
Of course, if it was a LEO or other first responder – or an innocent bystander or local resident – that simply happened to be next to the vehicle when the blast happened . . . not so much.
JUST KIND OF a slight change from your “expert opinion” of “Yeah, pretty sure this was a white nationalist “patriot” thing.” to now saying “Maybe it was a BLM aligned actor.”. Maybe next you’ll actually say that it might have been some antifa maggot who is also a Ted Kaczynski wannabe?
The recorded warning prior to detonation would tend to refute that theory…
The recorded warning would be precisely what you would expect from someone who wanted to target responders but not civilians.
So you’re saying it DOES follow the tactics of pAntifa.
Not Antifa.
I don’t think you know what Antifa is and only watch fear mongerers.
So those black-clad a-holes running around committing acts of domestic terrorism are just figments of ‘fear monger’s” imaginations….
I’m glad you set us straight, Komrade. I can’t speak for the TAH Peoples’ Collective but it’d be prudent to say we’d hate to be on the wrong side of history on this aspect of the Glorious Revolution and would like to make amends for our Wrongthink.
Please forward my respect and admirations to the Peaceful Black Block Window Smashers Union and the Firebombs of Peace and Retributive Social Justice Guild.
Prostrating in the name of BLM, Roh-Dog
(btw, huge sarc and a hearty GFY)
Clueless. Completely.
What acts of domestic terrorism are you referring to? Specifically..
The fact that you claim they are terrorists and they are running around committing acts of terror proves my point about the fear mongering.
I told you I know what I’ve done wrong!
Please, oh benevolent and non-violent collective, please spare me!
No, seriously: please, spare me.
And don’t show up to my house.
Please.
don’t.
come.
here.
(tehehehehehe)
pAntifa teaches newbies how to target police (first responders) to distract while others plunder and destroy. They preposition projectiles, provide 2 way radios and eye-damaging laser pointers, prepare signage in advance and distribute using rented vehicles.
They are organized and funded by several “progressive” left wing groups and belong on the terrorist watch list.
I’m surprised they didn’t get direct funding from the “progressive” members of Congress in that pork laden bill. After all, they want to give Venezuela a gift of our tax money.
Leftist media blames Trump supporters, calls for ban of AR-15s and Free Speech.
The usual initial response from the DeMSM.
I’m here in Clarksville Tennessee (just outside of Fort Campbell, KY).
I don’t know what exactly was in that AT&T building in Nashville, but I know this because I just heard the Mayor of Nashville recite it:
[The local news (Channel 5) is reporting] that almost all 911 service in the counties and cities around Nashville are OUT OF SERVICE.
This includes Fort Campbell itself.
Something else is afoot, and whatever it is, the perpetrators want 911 to be out of commission over a very large footprint.
My mind can think of evil possibities ranging from an attack on the Nashville Branch of the Atlanta Federal Reserve (close to the site of the actual explosion, it’s within the blockout area effective from now until Sunday at 4:00, so no one will be allowed in or out without police escort); to a prison escape (Riverbend Maximum Security); maybe even something at Ft. Campbell itself (home of three National assets of American defense: the 101st Airborne Division, the 5th SF Group and the 160th SOAR).
Cui bono.
I certainly hope that Team leaders at the EOCs are closing the blast doors and pulling people back from leave tonight.
Remember the October War, Yom Kippur, October 1973.
Take advantage of a holy day when security is understaffed, and more into egg nog than CCTV.
I probably won’t sleep much tonight, waiting to see Scene Two.
I wish I was still on active duty.
This is the type of analysis that keeps me comin back! Thanks for this.
I wasn’t sure the outage area but an attack on commo hubs or power distro is my number one low tier threat fear.
It don’t take much to upset our apple cart.
Maybe raise your THREATCON up a tick.
See you on the other side, stay safe out there.
Methinks stuff ain’t over yet.
Not just 911 but also alarms are done all over the place.
This whole thing doesn’t smell like Islamic terrorists. I’ve near heard of them giving fair warning on a loud speaker to clear out before. Also If somebody had an axe to grind with ATT why not attack the tower? It is a much more public target and only a couple of blocks away.
Whatever is going on here is something different.
Fox online email has it that human remains were found at the scene.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/nashville-explosion-disrupts-flights-atandt-service/ar-BB1ceAef
Even the Nashville Airport!?
For frequent flyers, that’s symbol “BNA” because the real name of Nashville International Airport is “Berry Field Nashville” … named in honor of Col. Harry S. Berry.
It’s awful early for any sort of analysis from the couch. But I’ll give it a shot.
1. The bomb was of a significant size and detonated. This rules out most amateurs and wannabes. Whomever put this together had at least a moderate level of skill or a lot of luck.
2. The bomb was placed at a time, date and place with minimal personnel exposure. Christmas day on a side street.
3. There are reports it was clearly identified as a bomb.
4. Potential reports of gun fire preceding it. Not sure about Nashville but in certain cities here in VA gun fire is fairly common.
5. The crime scene is going to be about as pristine as any agency is ever going to see. Minimal precipitation and cool temperatures since the detonation.
Whomever did this better have their logistics squared away. If anything has fingerprints, serial numbers, distinct wiring patterns, etc… it’s going to be found.
This is likely a first run for other events or some sort of follow on was supposed to occur and did not.
The time, date, and placement of this VBIED is almost certainly not random. Indicating there was definitely recon, probably in person. Gotta know when vehicles get towed, what looks out of place, etc… They better hope the ever present security cameras everywhere now days didn’t catch anything.
There is no way of knowing who/what did this at this point. But it’s clearly someone with at least a moderate level of know how and logistical support.
We will likely see false claims for responsibility. Either lame attempts to set up other groups or dumbasses who have no idea the amount of attention false claims will get them.
The worst case scenario I can come up with is some sort of Iranian sponsorship. They still seem to feel some kind of way about Soleimani. And with a new administration coming in some genius on their end may have thought this was a good idea.
I would think that revenge from Iran with boomstuff would either target a noteworthy high-level public figure, or a major mass-casualty event of hundreds, or a major monument. This event seems to lack sufficient terror/humiliation value.
The gunfire is believed to have come from the speaker system, likely to summon police to subsequently evacuate the area. They did so and two of thw three of those injured were responding officers who were a little too close to the VBIED when it went off.
The perp(s) appear to have gone out of their way to damage a building with minimal casualties. (Or whatever other interesting objects were nearby, if any)
Had the “announcement” had a different message, like “vote for Thanos”, “free beer will unlock in five minutes” or a false count “I am a five minute bomb! (Repeat for two) I lied! Boom!” perp(s) could have easily killed many, many more people.
This is a -very- unusual event.
Also, it may be:
> Find out what happens when I/we wreck one of these node building things.
> Let’s see what this boomstuff recipe can do.
> The voices in perp-head do not do well on meth/crack/painthuff.
> Practice, perhaps with misdirection.
That last option is … troubling.
So apparently google maps caught the same make/model RV in a dudes yard.
My bet would be the guy is going to say something along the lines of “I sold it to (insert fake name). He paid cash. I’m too old to drive it around anymore and wanted to get rid of it”
Hopefully it is not a temporal pincer by some unknown federal agency or unknown terrorist organization.
The target of this VBIED points to some type of tech related objective.
But yeah, let’s way for more information before we start opening our ammo cans.
Richard Jewel Much?
This comes off as something like the bombings the Weather Underground (Ayers & Dorhn) used to do, only better planned and executed.
Also, if penguinman’s description of it is correct, it was aimed at shutting down telecommunications as much as possible. It was definitely a bomb, quite powerful, per the news video this morning.
What could be shut down that would do the most damage? Telecomm – what we all take for granted, never mind the power grids.
POI named – Anthony Quinn Warren, 63, from the Nashville area. Not yet confirmed, but various places are running with info.
https://heavy.com/news/anthony-quinn-warner/
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9088979/FBI-investigates-Nashville-bomber-tried-target-cops-blast.html
Meant to place my reply on you. Instead put it on my comment above.
Unless of course he was smeared with the remains of the RV.
As he had an electronics background it could be a case of a capable wackado investing his life’s savings in an attempt to “right” some perceived wrong.
Along the lines of the dip shit who flew his plane into the IRS building a few years ago or the guy who built an up armored dozer to knock over buildings.