The blast was near Elie Wiesel’s funeral. But it’s most likely that the two incidents are not at all related.
A blast in Central Park severed the left foot of a young man visiting New York from northern Virginia Sunday, witnesses said.
The NYPD’s bomb squad was investigating the area of the park near E. 68th St. and Fifth Ave.
Cops at the scene suspected a mishap involving fireworks and said it did not appear an explosive device caused the boom heard from blocks away around 11 a.m.
His foot was “all but gone,” one witness said.
Two of the victim’s shocked friends described the ghastly sight moments before being taken away in an ambulance.
“We don’t know what happened. There was a small explosion and then dust,” said one friend who didn’t give his name. “We really don’t know.”
“We don’t know the caliber of the firework,” said the second friend.
Police said they were responding to an “amputation incident.” Medics rushed the victim to Bellevue Hospital.
The explosion was heard by attendees of Elie Wiesel’s funeral on E. 61st St. — though there was no sign the blast was related to the memorial for the Pulitzer Prize winning Holocaust survivor.
Witness John Murphy, 53, said he tried to keep the young man conscious following the explosion.
“I saw his friends standing there panicking. I saw the young man laying on the grass. His foot is all but gone. His friends claimed he was walking down the rocks and he stepped on it. It looks like there was an explosion,” Murphy said.
He asked the group if they were carrying fireworks or something similar.
“They said, ‘We didn’t have anything. He stepped on something!” Murphy recalled.
“It was an explosive of some sort. The damage is just awful. I didn’t see any metal. It was very weird.”
He said the victim remained conscious.
“He’s a very tough young man. He’s got a very severe injury,” he said. “We just stayed with him, held his hand and tried to keep him present and make sure he didn’t go into shock.”
Sara Gordon, 27, was also nearby at the time of the explosion.
“His left foot looked severed. It was very graphic,” she said. “I was running back and forth to direct the police here. It sounded like a cannon. I thought it was a 4th of July thing.”
Jihadi land mines. I’d check the rest of the park
I don’t know … but it don’t sound good.
izlamo delenda est …
They guy made his own bomb. But made it too big.
Remember this happened a couple years ago at night in NYC area.
In a baseball field I think.
Good Lord. If this is what I think it is?
and there’s always the idiot making sure you get on youtube
If it’s a military type land mine, there would be recognizable parts around
the blast area. Any EOD could tell it’s military.
Probably someone building his own firework.
I did not know that Elie Wiesel had died. Rest in Peace Elie. Guess you went out with a bang?
You can legally buy some awfully powerful fireworks in the young man’s home state of Virginia. They’re on sale in kiosks in many shopping center parking lots. “M80’s” are about the equivalent of 1/4 stick of TNT. Carelessness is probably but not definitely the explanation for the incident.
I. E.D. Are not military explosive devices. It’s whatever goes bang.
Yah… Must’ve been an M80 that fell out of some kid’s pocket in 1972.
I. E.D. Are not military explosive devices. It’s whatever goes bang
Who said they were military. It’s says IF it’s military
It sounds like a little “toe popper” mine like was used in Vietnam. Or, at LBJ called it, “Vet-nahm”.
Clockmed is back, and weaponized, maybe?
And Bad_Brad you’re right. It probably is a mohammedan. But it was an accident, see?
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/cab-jumps-curb-midtown-hits-woman-reports-article-1.1431690
Weird.
ThirdTwin:
Check out the comments below the story.
http://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2016/07/3/man-hospitalized-after-central-park-explosion–police-investigating.html
We used to call them ‘pressure devices’ adding pressure or subtracting
pressure ……. BOOM.
Very nasty stuff.
Bad_Brad, the guy who said he heard one the day before,loud nough to scare him out of the area, sounds like a dry run. Or maybe it pink-misted a squirrel. I bet it’s some freak who profiles like the Beltway sniper.
Gotta be something bigger than an M-80, which only holds 3 grams of powder. We kids used to set those off back in the 50’s, just before they were outlawed in Texas. As I recall, they were slightly more powerful than a cherry bomb. An M-80 might blow off a finger or two if held in a closed fist, but a foot? No way.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-80_(explosive)
Just another chapter for Obama’s legacy.
We used to tape M-80’s to an arrow and shoot them.
One guy set the bow and another lit the fuse.
Pretty damn stupid. We were 15.
you gotta be in H100 territory to take out a foot.