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Wednesday, November 01, 2006

EBay building bombed: Exclusive IMs from an eBayer inside the building

EBay building bombed: Exclusive IMs from an eBayer inside the building - Valleywag:

"Here's the breaking news story:
Firefighters Respond to Explosions within eBay Building


And here's the IM thread of them telling me a few minutes ago.

friend-at-ebay: http://www.nbc11.com/news/10205869/detail.html

me: wft?
you there?

friend: Crazy shit! A bunch of us were there working late and all of a sudden BOOOOOOM!!!!
I ran outside looking for a plane crash.
But is from inside the building. Some are saying it was a transformer.
Windows were blown out.

me: top floor? basement? or somewhere in between?

friend: Bottom floor hallways were filled with smoke. I had to run through the buildings and yell for people to evacuate because....get this...
There were no fricking fire alarms to pull.

More after the jump.

me: no fire alarms?

friend: The bomb squad and hazmat are on site searching the buildings.

friend: Yeah. Crazy. Couldn't find one anywhere. And I looked high and low.

me: everybody OK afauk?

friend: Yeah...no injuries.
Just a lot of rattled nerves.

=== 45 minutes later ==

friend: Whoa. It was a bomb.
http://cbs5.com/local/local_story_305004735.html
Man, I never even considered that. I ran over there straight past the location of the bomb and was just thinking about making sure everyone was okay.

me: wonder if it was Halloween punk kids. office near anything residential?
friend: Dude...it was a huge explosion.
friend: Rattled all the buildings on campus"

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