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2014-11-25 Home Front: WoT

Soddy college student crashes car into San Antonio military base

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Posted by Mercutio 2014-11-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 The main entrance to Ft Sam is essentially a street about a mile long. Once you pass the turn for BAMC (Brooke Army Med Ctr) you've basically got no where to go but across the RR tracks and into the base, or try a U turn. At least that's my recollection from a few years back.

Posted by ed in texas 2014-11-25 07:35|| 2014-11-25 07:35|| Front Page Top

#2 Also possible the driver was not sober. It is San Antonio, after all.

Posted by Pappy 2014-11-25 10:57|| 2014-11-25 10:57|| Front Page Top

#3 Unpossible. Alcohol is haram, amirite?

Posted by Frank G 2014-11-25 11:29|| 2014-11-25 11:29|| Front Page Top

#4 The car contained explosives but no explosive device? Anyone want to explain the difference?

Al

Posted by Frozen Al 2014-11-25 11:34|| 2014-11-25 11:34|| Front Page Top

#5 Amnesty!

Let him come out of the shadows and do the work that leftoid hipsters are too pussified to do!

Posted by charger 2014-11-25 11:52|| 2014-11-25 11:52|| Front Page Top

#6 Al - An explosive device consists of explosives, containment and a FUSE or detonator of some kind. Explosives are just a part of an explosive device.

When computer parts started shipping with "static sensitive device" labels the security industry almost had a collective heart attack, because in those circles "device" means "bomb" and explosives were known to be static sensitive.

Posted by Skeezix2049 2014-11-25 13:08|| 2014-11-25 13:08|| Front Page Top

#7 Unpossible. Alcohol is haram, amirite?

Lots of Saudis have driven off the causeway coming home from Bahrain. Most of it wasn't from road fatigue.

Posted by Pappy 2014-11-25 14:14|| 2014-11-25 14:14|| Front Page Top

#8 "driver who rammed his car into the gates of U.S. Army post Fort Sam Houston in Texas is in custody"

In custody? Why wasn't he SHOT?

Posted by Barbara 2014-11-25 16:09|| 2014-11-25 16:09|| Front Page Top

#9 There are a couple of prominent entrances to Fort Sam - from this story in the SA Express News it looks like this student tried to come in thru the gate where Harry Wurzbach dead-ends. That's a long avenue that runs along-side the western side of the base and which dead-ends at a point near the end of the old parade ground. If the student was lost, and faintly intoxicated, he might have gotten confused and tried to run the barrier, not realizing that it was a gate and access is controlled. There are some other smaller entry gates - but the other main big one is a short length of avenue running from IH-35 to the east side of Fort Sam, which they have just widened and adorned, and have three or four lanes with a huge canopy over the place where they check IDs. They would rather prefer that civilian visitors come to that gate, or the one on Harry W. The other side gates, they'd prefer that only active military and retirees use them.
There's been very little in the local news about this, although in the link they do deny that the student was a Saud. They don't give a name or nationality at all, though. Curious.

Posted by Sgt. Mom 2014-11-25 16:15|| 2014-11-25 16:15|| Front Page Top

#10 Upon further review the 'explosive' was determined to be a Takata airbag.

/sarc

Posted by USN, Ret. 2014-11-25 16:41|| 2014-11-25 16:41|| Front Page Top

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