Irvington rocked by small, mysterious explosion; no one injured

[dudley0]

Quite the coincidence, but one report said there was someone driving by with a dash cam at the exact moment of the explosion and got it on film.

The exact moment.

On film.

Quite the coincidence.

I wish that I had a dash cam rolling a couple weeks back. Was driving into town for a lunch break and saw this yuppie looking kid with a megaphone on the car's tailpipe make a wonderful crash scene. My guess is his flip flop fell off as he was trying to brake and he gassed it instead... barely clipped car in front of him, ate a tree and bounced into the car in front of the one he clipped.

We stopped, told my guy to call 911, walked to first car and he was fine. Walked to the yuppie kid who jumped out of his car with a hella bloody nose. Asked if he was fine to which he just *****ed about his car. Cope showed up in seconds. Nobody in need of my flimsy first aid so I bailed before the traffic jam.

911 never went thru... which sucked. I still look at the tree with the shaved bark and shake my head.

Man I wish I had a dash cam to make it go viral.

 

[MrsGungho]

I used to live by Twin Aire (still own the house if anyone is interested in buying a rental, anyone, anyone?) and can safely say Washington St is a busy road at all times of day.

I can pull video from our cameras at work, at any time of day or night (facing Washington St just blocks from this incident)and they are always active, which means there is always traffic out there. No movement on camera for 60 seconds, it stops recording.

 

[K_W]

All joking aside.. I want to know what this device was, if there may be more, and if the ATF is involved. This was no gas main and it was strong enough to blow a dashcam off it's mount from inside a car.

 

[trimman83]

I live on 10th,west of Shadeland and I heard/felt it here. When a transformer blows it will also cause the lights to flicker. Even here I could tell it was at least twice as loud. I'm sure the authorities know it was a device. Underground utilities would be quickly identified.

 

[nra4ever]

Micro meteor strike. Nothing to see.

 

[K_W]

Micro meteor strike. Nothing to see.

On the contrary... I'd love to see that, unless it would be the last thing I saw.

 

[T.Lex]

https://www.theindychannel.com/news...ous-booby-trap-found-along-indianapolis-trail

Speaking of coincidences, a wire slung at neck height was discovered along Pleasant Run trail. I'm not familiar with that area, or where the wire was, but that runs up through Irvington, right?

 

[halfmileharry]

Some sick **** there.

 

[Tactically Fat]

This is just a WAG on the car explosion: mobile meth lab assploded.

 

[BehindBlueI's]

Well, as a former Combat Engineer I'd say if it left a hole and coated the guy's car in mud, it was buried. No other plausible single device is going to both crater and push a significant amount of dirt outward. I don't think a gas line explosion would be so contained and not leave a fire burning. The interesting thing would be how was it detonated? Timer that just happened to go at the right time to catch a motorist or remote detonation with an observer? And for what purpose? Prank/scare? Buried charges aren't for causing casualties, and that's not where you'd place a device if you wanted to hurt people to get attention.

 

[KellyinAvon]

Citizens Energy Spokesperson: We didn't do it!

[h=1]Citizens Energy says loud Irvington explosion wasn’t caused by gas leak[/h]On Friday, Citizens Energy announced in a quick statement, "the incident was not the result of a gas issue."

https://fox59.com/2018/10/05/citizens-energy-says-loud-explosion-wasnt-caused-by-gas-leak/

 

[lonehoosier]

I can’t believe we have not heard an outcome to this. I’m starting to wonder what they are hiding.

 

[BehindBlueI's]

I can’t believe we have not heard an outcome to this. I’m starting to wonder what they are hiding.

Media already bored with it, probably. Doubt anyone is hiding anything.

 

[Trigger Time]

I can’t believe we have not heard an outcome to this. I’m starting to wonder what they are hiding.

Or who they are looking for?
Where are you guys seeing a good video at? The very short one I saw didnt show anything. Then the guys camera fell inside of the car it looked like and I didnt see dirt fly or anything.
Was there any damage to the road?

 

[pute62]

Drove thru the area on Thursday evening and didn’t see any evidence of explosions in the 3 medians. Seems if it was such a big explosion, there would have been more evidence in such a small area.

 

[lonehoosier]

Media already bored with it, probably. Doubt anyone is hiding anything.

Ok, maybe hiding is a harsh word but what are they not telling the public.

 

[halfmileharry]

Hoping this wasn't a trial run to assess damage and blast strength.
I'm also hoping that we find out IMPD's investigation results on this.

 

[churchmouse]

Hoping this wasn't a trial run to assess damage and blast strength.
I'm also hoping that we find out IMPD's investigation results on this.

My thoughts as well.

 

[KellyinAvon]

Hoping this wasn't a trial run to assess damage and blast strength.
I'm also hoping that we find out IMPD's investigation results on this.

Heard 20 blocks away? That's not BOOM, that's BOOM!!!!

 

[thunderchicken]

Where's Frank? Frank, are you boys sleeping at the wheel? Jkjk. I too am kinda curious as to what has been found and share the same concerns. I don't know if anything is being witheld from the media or not, but it wouldn't surprise me either. I would imagine too its possible since it was a relatively small explosion that there may not have been much evidence left.