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Report: Paramedic from Texas plant blast arrested

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http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/05/10/west-texas-explosion/2150461/

Officials are mum on whether the arrest is linked to the explosion that killed 14 last month.

A paramedic who was one of the first on the scene of a massive explosion lat month at a fertilizer plant in West, Texas, was arrested early Friday and charged with possession of a destructive device, The Dallas Morning News reported.

Officials have not said whether the arrest of Bruce Reed, 31, is related to the April 17 explosion at the West Fertilizer Co. that killed 14 people, injured around 200 and destroyed hundreds of homes in the vicinity, the newspaper said.

News 92 FM in Houston reported that Reed was one of the early first responders to the scene of the catastrophe and was assigned to be the incident commander at the scene. News 92 FM said authorities indicated that the explosive device was a pipe bomb.

U.S. Marshals arrested Reed around 2 a.m. and and booked him into McLennan County Jail in Waco, the News reported.

The newspaper said Reed had spoken in the past to The Dallas Morning News and the Los Angeles Times about his experience responding to the massive explosion.


WTF?
 
TallBill said:
Suddenly the media will care about this now.
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I've been following it because I am outraged. The plant has a long history of having virtually no security and has been broken into numerous times by meth addicts to steal chemicals. And the plant had only 1 million dollars in insurance, the same amount I have for my small computer business.
 
techs said:
I've been following it because I am outraged. The plant has a long history of having virtually no security and has been broken into numerous times by meth addicts to steal chemicals. And the plant had only 1 million dollars in insurance, the same amount I have for my small computer business.
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I don't think it's the meth addicts breaking in!
 
techs said:
I've been following it because I am outraged. The plant has a long history of having virtually no security and has been broken into numerous times by meth addicts to steal chemicals. And the plant had only 1 million dollars in insurance, the same amount I have for my small computer business.
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Yeah, but you are also smart, interested, and in a position to have control over your business. A lot of places I've done work for are so bad off it's a wonder they're even in business still. It's sort of like when you see people who never exercise, stay up all night, smoke, drink, and do drugs...you wonder how they manage, and yet somehow they do.

So those details don't surprise me at all. You'd be amazed at some of the places I've seen that are huge multi-million dollar companies that don't take things like computer & premises security seriously. You are definitely ahead of the game :biggrin:
 
Red Storm said:
wtf? If this was a planned explosion shouldn't this be getting much more news?
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So, explosion in Boston = 24 hour non-stop coverage for a couple of days, kills 3. Explosion in Texas = 400% more deaths, tons more destruction, many more injured, and just some headlines scrolling across the screen occasionally.

News reporting in this country sucks, because it's so tied to sensationalism.
 
DrPizza said:
So, explosion in Boston = 24 hour non-stop coverage for a couple of days, kills 3. Explosion in Texas = 400% more deaths, tons more destruction, many more injured, and just some headlines scrolling across the screen occasionally.

News reporting in this country sucks, because it's so tied to sensationalism.
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That's why I watch BBC. I haven't heard a thing about the woman being rescued in the Bangladesh building collapse on CNN today.
 
ultimatebob said:
Yeah... it's kind of sad how weak the national coverage was on that. It's like the media was so busy doing live reports from Boston that they didn't want to bother going to Texas.
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Really?!? What news are you guys accessing that that was barely covered? No it didn't get the same coverage as the Boston bombing (which investigation into is ongoing by the way so why you guys are surprised its getting tons of coverage I have no idea), but it was all over the place immediately and there were articles about it for a while after. And I'm not exactly one that goes and looks at all news sites.

Are you guys really unable to figure out why there'd be very different investigations with this and the Boston bombings, and hence media coverage? One involved thousands of people (there were thousands in the area of the bombs, its just luck that it didn't do more damage), fugitive terrorists in a highly populated area, as well as potential ties to other terrorist acts. The other seemed like a case of corporate negligence, that impacted several hundred/low thousands of people in a much smaller populated area, where there is/was a relatively low key investigation ongoing (in other words it wasn't a constantly changing story like the Boston situation). Now that there's something happening, big surprise its being reported on. Holy shit fucking bullshit media rabble rabble!!!

I'm just baffled at some people on here and their weird views on media coverage.
 
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DrPizza said:
So, explosion in Boston = 24 hour non-stop coverage for a couple of days, kills 3. Explosion in Texas = 400% more deaths, tons more destruction, many more injured, and just some headlines scrolling across the screen occasionally.

News reporting in this country sucks, because it's so tied to sensationalism.
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the media latches on a story and runs with it for far to long.

This is a good example. they aren't covering this story yet i get updates every few minutes of those girls who were kidnapped.

they can't get off a story until something major and NEW happens.
 
DrPizza said:
So, explosion in Boston = 24 hour non-stop coverage for a couple of days, kills 3. Explosion in Texas = 400% more deaths, tons more destruction, many more injured, and just some headlines scrolling across the screen occasionally.

News reporting in this country sucks, because it's so tied to sensationalism.
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I agree with you, but it certainly isn't isolated to this country.
Soccer games in the UK and Spain both had moments of silence for the victims of Boston, as well as hockey in Canada. Maybe because it was "sport" related? Boston dominated the news from CNN to BBC to Al Jazeera.
 
PingSpike said:
Yikes, kind of sounds like the fire fighters that light fires so they can put them out motive deal.
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I once knew an arson investigator, he said volunteer firefighters were busted for arson at a pretty alarming rate. Mostly because they were only paid when they were called.
 
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Pantoot said:
I agree with you, but it certainly isn't isolated to this country.
Soccer games in the UK and Spain both had moments of silence for the victims of Boston, as well as hockey in Canada. Maybe because it was "sport" related? Boston dominated the news from CNN to BBC to Al Jazeera.
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I wouldn't say that it dominated the news on BBC at all. By the next day BBC was back to scheduled programming. CNN on the other hand ran with it like no tomorrow.
 
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