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Package headed to Austin explodes at Schertz FedEx Ground facility

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There has been an explosion reported at a package facility in the San Antonio area.

The blast happened overnight Tuesday morning at the FedEx Ground distribution center in Schertz, just northeast of San Antonio on FM 3009 Highway.

CBS News reported that one person received minor injuries from the blast, possibly a concussion and was expected to be OK. An FBI agent told CBS the box was being mailed from Austin and was headed to Austin. The agent said that "it’s more than possible" that this package is related to the explosions that have occurred in Austin in recent days.

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kens5.com | Package headed to Austin explodes at Schertz FedEx ground facility


This is really a unique situation here in the Austin area. Oldtimers don't remember anything like this happening before. There's a great deal of fear going on.
 
WCH said:
There has been an explosion reported at a package facility in the San Antonio area.

The blast happened overnight Tuesday morning at the FedEx Ground distribution center in Schertz, just northeast of San Antonio on FM 3009 Highway.

CBS News reported that one person received minor injuries from the blast, possibly a concussion and was expected to be OK. An FBI agent told CBS the box was being mailed from Austin and was headed to Austin. The agent said that "it’s more than possible" that this package is related to the explosions that have occurred in Austin in recent days.

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kens5.com | Package headed to Austin explodes at Schertz FedEx ground facility


This is really a unique situation here in the Austin area. Oldtimers don't remember anything like this happening before. There's a great deal of fear going on.
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That it seems so random, would scare me if I lived in Austin!
 
WCH said:
There has been an explosion reported at a package facility in the San Antonio area.

The blast happened overnight Tuesday morning at the FedEx Ground distribution center in Schertz, just northeast of San Antonio on FM 3009 Highway.

CBS News reported that one person received minor injuries from the blast, possibly a concussion and was expected to be OK. An FBI agent told CBS the box was being mailed from Austin and was headed to Austin. The agent said that "it’s more than possible" that this package is related to the explosions that have occurred in Austin in recent days.

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kens5.com | Package headed to Austin explodes at Schertz FedEx ground facility


This is really a unique situation here in the Austin area. Oldtimers don't remember anything like this happening before. There's a great deal of fear going on.
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If the goal was to terrorize, the guy has been successful. The fact that parents wouldn't bring their children to the school bus in the morning until the sun was up so they can detect trip wires...that is terrorism. Absolutely ****ed up. I hope this comes to a resolution quickly.
 
holbritter said:
That it seems so random, would scare me if I lived in Austin!
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It's starting to get to people around here and we live in the next county. My grandkids love opening packages left on the porch.
 
Blue_State said:
If the goal was to terrorize, the guy has been successful. The fact that parents wouldn't bring their children to the school bus in the morning until the sun was up so they can detect trip wires...that is terrorism. Absolutely ****ed up. I hope this comes to a resolution quickly.
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After having two of these events on the same day, all doubt of terrorism was out the door, IMO.
 
WCH said:
After having two of these events on the same day, all doubt of terrorism was out the door, IMO.
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The news reporting on that day had me convinced it was racism. But I think you are right. This is terrorism.
 
This is the first time it has made its way into Canadian news.
 
WCH said:
After having two of these events on the same day, all doubt of terrorism was out the door, IMO.
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Well, of course we won't really KNOW it was terrorism until our beneficent government pronounces it so. (Poor joke with some element of truth)
 
WCH said:
There has been an explosion reported at a package facility in the San Antonio area.

The blast happened overnight Tuesday morning at the FedEx Ground distribution center in Schertz, just northeast of San Antonio on FM 3009 Highway.

CBS News reported that one person received minor injuries from the blast, possibly a concussion and was expected to be OK. An FBI agent told CBS the box was being mailed from Austin and was headed to Austin. The agent said that "it’s more than possible" that this package is related to the explosions that have occurred in Austin in recent days.

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kens5.com | Package headed to Austin explodes at Schertz FedEx ground facility


This is really a unique situation here in the Austin area. Oldtimers don't remember anything like this happening before. There's a great deal of fear going on.
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I was just in Schertz yesterday too.

Damn.
 
WCH said:
Odd that this package was addressed from Austin, to Austin. Pretty sure there's a FedEx facility in Austin.
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Dude, have you ever tracked a package sent to you from like E-Bay or Amazon, I watched one go from Cali, to Dallas, to Houston and back to Dallas before it came here.
 
Renae said:
Dude, have you ever tracked a package sent to you from like E-Bay or Amazon, I watched one go from Cali, to Dallas, to Houston and back to Dallas before it came here.
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Yep, must be globalism at work.
 
WCH said:
There has been an explosion reported at a package facility in the San Antonio area.

The blast happened overnight Tuesday morning at the FedEx Ground distribution center in Schertz, just northeast of San Antonio on FM 3009 Highway.

CBS News reported that one person received minor injuries from the blast, possibly a concussion and was expected to be OK. An FBI agent told CBS the box was being mailed from Austin and was headed to Austin. The agent said that "it’s more than possible" that this package is related to the explosions that have occurred in Austin in recent days.

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kens5.com | Package headed to Austin explodes at Schertz FedEx ground facility


This is really a unique situation here in the Austin area. Oldtimers don't remember anything like this happening before. There's a great deal of fear going on.
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It seems pretty similar to the DC sniper crisis I went through years ago. Granted, it is a bit easier to avoid being a victim with a mail bomb... I remember high levels of stress just getting out of my car to pump gas.
 
jmotivator said:
It seems pretty similar to the DC sniper crisis I went through years ago. Granted, it is a bit easier to avoid being a victim with a mail bomb... I remember high levels of stress just getting out of my car to pump gas.
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Dude set a trip wire like claymores. You can't avoid that so easy. What if he sets it up in a park?
 
Renae said:
Dude set a trip wire like claymores. You can't avoid that so easy. What if he sets it up in a park?
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Stay off of foot paths, sidewalks, etc.
 
Blue_State said:
The news reporting on that day had me convinced it was racism. But I think you are right. This is terrorism.
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That is not necessarily contradictory.
 
The popper at the Goodwill was an incendiary device.

This cat is either learning, or he brought a lot of knowledge to the table.
 
apdst said:
The popper at the Goodwill was an incendiary device.

This cat is either learning, or he brought a lot of knowledge to the table.
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I read about that about 10 minutes ago, either it is the same guy switching his tactics which he seems to have been doing until now, or a copycat trying to pull off a similar move, the incindiary though was much less lethal than the explosions, and even though police believe it is not connected, it still made a bang and it still could be the same man branching out different ways to deliver a bang.
 
WCH said:
There has been an explosion reported at a package facility in the San Antonio area.

The blast happened overnight Tuesday morning at the FedEx Ground distribution center in Schertz, just northeast of San Antonio on FM 3009 Highway.

CBS News reported that one person received minor injuries from the blast, possibly a concussion and was expected to be OK. An FBI agent told CBS the box was being mailed from Austin and was headed to Austin. The agent said that "it’s more than possible" that this package is related to the explosions that have occurred in Austin in recent days.

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kens5.com | Package headed to Austin explodes at Schertz FedEx ground facility


This is really a unique situation here in the Austin area. Oldtimers don't remember anything like this happening before. There's a great deal of fear going on.
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There have been multiple bombs in the Austin area this month. Not bomb threats. Actual bombs.

No clue why this story isn't making the news more.
 
beerftw said:
I read about that about 10 minutes ago, either it is the same guy switching his tactics which he seems to have been doing until now, or a copycat trying to pull off a similar move, the incindiary though was much less lethal than the explosions, and even though police believe it is not connected, it still made a bang and it still could be the same man branching out different ways to deliver a bang.
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Or, somebody picked up a box of old clothes at paw-paw's and had no idea that there was something other than clothes.

The speaker said the pyro went off when an employee started handling it.

It's still odd though, that a box with two arty simulators wound up at the Goodwill.
 
Phys251 said:
There have been multiple bombs in the Austin area this month. Not bomb threats. Actual bombs.

No clue why this story isn't making the news more.
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Until the last bombing at fedex, every news article on my phones news feed had the story on for around 30 minutes then dropped it showing stories on trump, it is simply because news outlets excluding fox want to focus on everything anti trump all the time, and this story does not fit the narrative, the other narrative is gun control which this does not fit.

Simply put the media runs on sensationalism and a narrative fueled by propoganda, the austin bombings fit neither, for liberal or even conservative outlets hence it is not ratings worthy. I can guarantee if it was an antifa member fox would spend 80% of the day covering it and if it was an nra member wapo cnn nyt etc would spend 80% of the day covering it, and had the bombs been planted by ufo's directed by the illuminati the enquirer would spend 80% of it's news feeds on it, they market for ratings not over what is actual news.
 
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