12-16-2015, 04:05 AM
[Sorry for the equivalent of saying "burned the barn and the shed up". As I wrote it, it was obvious to me how it parsed, but obviously not to some readers. Blame it on my learning German in high school. If only I had an editor to proofread my submissions first....]
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"No trace" as in nothing they could identify as the bomber or even prove that the bomber had been blown up, at the time they locked down the other schools. It wasn't like there was a body that they could point to and say "This guy must have been the bomber". Immediately after the bombing, there was only "small body parts". One of the Texas Rangers on the scene wrote:
 "There was still one big problem: we werent sure that he was dead. There wasnt a body, at least not one that was identifiable, and we were afraid that the bomber was still on the school grounds with another explosive."
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe_Elemen...ol_bombing
 "Very little of Orgeron was found. Only small body parts were recovered from the surrounding bushes, buildings and homes. Orgeron's left hand was found in a hedge indicating he had died in the blast. It was used to identify him through fingerprints which were on file from prior convictions."
(Actually there were two other body parts eventually found, one on the roof of a two story building across the street. See the Texas Ranger dispatch above.)
There is a difference between erring on the side of caution and always choosing the cautious side. A different moral of Aesop's fable is "Some time there may be a wolf."
[As for the extra OT part of this OT thread, when he was a high school student, my high school history teacher lost his hand as a result of this blast from a hodgepodge mixture of chemicals which killed the person who put it together and then set the glass jar on a car hood on a sunny day. He wanted to show it off to the then lab assistant (later my teacher). It exploded as my teacher was walking toward it. I expect many of us did dumb things with chemicals or fireworks, but only survivors are here. ]
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(12-15-2015, 02:25 PM)Boston Card link Wrote:Me too. If he blew himself up how could there have been no trace? He couldn't have simply vaporized. Even the most gruesome suicide bombings leave a trace of the bomber.
"No trace" as in nothing they could identify as the bomber or even prove that the bomber had been blown up, at the time they locked down the other schools. It wasn't like there was a body that they could point to and say "This guy must have been the bomber". Immediately after the bombing, there was only "small body parts". One of the Texas Rangers on the scene wrote:
 "There was still one big problem: we werent sure that he was dead. There wasnt a body, at least not one that was identifiable, and we were afraid that the bomber was still on the school grounds with another explosive."
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe_Elemen...ol_bombing
 "Very little of Orgeron was found. Only small body parts were recovered from the surrounding bushes, buildings and homes. Orgeron's left hand was found in a hedge indicating he had died in the blast. It was used to identify him through fingerprints which were on file from prior convictions."
(Actually there were two other body parts eventually found, one on the roof of a two story building across the street. See the Texas Ranger dispatch above.)
There is a difference between erring on the side of caution and always choosing the cautious side. A different moral of Aesop's fable is "Some time there may be a wolf."
[As for the extra OT part of this OT thread, when he was a high school student, my high school history teacher lost his hand as a result of this blast from a hodgepodge mixture of chemicals which killed the person who put it together and then set the glass jar on a car hood on a sunny day. He wanted to show it off to the then lab assistant (later my teacher). It exploded as my teacher was walking toward it. I expect many of us did dumb things with chemicals or fireworks, but only survivors are here. ]