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The following are excerpts from an article in today’s NY Post regarding a highly suspicious van found in Brooklyn yesterday. (YWN NOTE: Although still unconfirmed, a highly credible source tells YWN that there was C4 explosives possibly attached to a battery found inside the van.)
At about 5:00PM Thursday, an unidentified thief with a police record broke into a red van that had been parked at 53rd Street and Second Avenue in Brooklyn’s Sunset Park for about a month.
He was stunned when he looked inside - it was filled with gas cans and Styrofoam cups containing a mysterious white substance with protruding wires and switches.
Then he got out and called a cop he knows from his run-ins with the law.
“He did the right thing,” a high-ranking officer said. “And he possibly saved a lot of people’s lives.”
Another source told the Post that cops are unlikely to file charges for the break-in.
The van had Delaware plates that had been issued to another vehicle. It’s not clear when its cargo was put inside.
Police Commissioner Ray Kelly joined cops from the Bomb Squad and the anti-terror task force at the scene. Cops shut down three blocks.
What a ganav!
Comment by Joseph — July 4, 2008 @ 1:22 pm
It’s impressive that the Commish joined the “boys” at a potentially dangerous crime scene and didn’t just stay tuned from the comfort of his armchair.
Comment by Yatzmich — July 4, 2008 @ 1:51 pm
…dry run ?
Comment by jent1150 — July 4, 2008 @ 3:18 pm
Hashem sends His shlichim from the most unlikely places.
Comment by mrjones — July 4, 2008 @ 3:33 pm
to #2 whaaaaat!?
Comment by Back at you — July 4, 2008 @ 4:15 pm
criminal risks his life trying to do a crime.
Comment by proud of KAJ WH TIDE — July 4, 2008 @ 5:57 pm
#2 ?!?!?!?!?!?!
Comment by Chacham — July 4, 2008 @ 5:58 pm
we mamesh see the chochmo of boreh oilom mu rabu masecha hashem if not for this individual people may have died i hold it may of been eliyahu hanavi. i think we should all accept upon ourselves to correct a certain midah and bring the binyan bayis shlishi b’mihayra b’yamainu
Comment by ultimateshtarkness — July 5, 2008 @ 6:34 pm
so..the car thief is just going to get off the hook, without even a warning?
Comment by Matisyohu28 — July 5, 2008 @ 10:14 pm
It’s actually a pretty simple cost-benefit analysis on the issue of whether to charge the would-be car thief.
Would you rather encourage people who might find themselves in a similar situation to go to the police, or have them so scared of being charged that they just walk away and let whatever horrific event that was planned unfold?
Personally, I feel a bit safer, even with one more potential car thief on the streets.
Comment by illini07 — July 8, 2008 @ 10:37 am