Terrorists, huh?
Posted on August 30, 2004
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Yesterday in Toronto we evidently had a wee bit of a black-out downtown, but I missed it because it was pissing rain out and I decided to spent the day sleeping and creating a ton of new Obj-C classes instead. Come to think of it, maybe I just mistook it for thunder.
However it seems it certainly got to some people:
Two explosions in a downtown Toronto hydro transformer had tourists fearing a terrorist attack and left thousands without power at the SkyDome, the Metro Toronto Convention Centre and in a huge chunk of the city centre.
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“I was very scared. I thought it was like a terrorist bombing,” said 16-year-old Ashley Fasso from Angola, N.Y., who was in Toronto with her father Anthony for yesterday’s Jays versus Yankees baseball game.
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Her father said they were standing across the street from the hydro substation at John and Wellington Sts., about two blocks north of the SkyDome, when there was “a giant orangeish, yellowish flame and a big bang … like five M80s (firecrackers) in a garbage can. We thought it was a bomb.”
- Blackout leaves downtown in the dark
Dear American Friends: we like you but your grandiose sense of self-importance is staggering. Please relax, it isn’t always all about you.
Dear Jackass Terrorists: you relax too. Serendipity is bumping along just fine without you, it seems.