Hmmm
From WATE:
Tennessee ranks seventh in the nation in the frequency of bomb incidents.
A new FBI report based on 1999 figures shows bombings, attempted bombings and accidental detonations were reported 58 times in the state that year. One person was hurt.
Of the 58, 22 were attempted bombings.
Nationally, 23 people were hurt and nine died that year.
Two years after the study, most local bomb squad units across the state and the country were strengthened because of the terrorist attacks.
I don’t recall these bombings being covered by, you know, the news.
October 17th, 2003 at 3:15 pm
A couple of years ago, we some bomb incidents out at Shelby Farms. No one was caught. But during the same time period, a couple of rednecks (according to witnesses; don’t think they were caught either) tossed a homemade bomb into a neighborhood dumpster.
It was late Sunday night, and I was reading in bed. I remember the “whump” and the walls shaking. I got up to check and saw flames sixty feet high; the dumpster lid was blown across the street! Fire Dept. put it out fine; police swarmed around.
But no television came around and it never made it onto the news.