There was shock, not shots being served up at a Starbuscks Coffee shop on Manhattan's Upper East Side early Monday morning, city officials said. A low-order improvised explosive device (IED) that was placed on a wooden bench outside the Starbucks café at the corner of East 92 Street and Third Avenue exploded at about 3:30 a.m., the police said. Officials said that due to the low impact nature of the bomb, the explosion appears to only have damaged the exterior of the café and since the facility was closed at the time, no injuries were reported. An investigation is currently underway to determine whether the incident is connected to a series of bombings in Manhattan over the last four years.| I can just see him holed up in his parents' basement, gloating to himself about being the Starbuckses Bomber. (Starbucks, singular; Starbuckses, incorrect plural) |
| "You know anything about the Starbuckses bombing?" "No, I just saw one of them, not several." |
Part of that investigation involves painstakingly examining the 59 fragments of shattered glass. Police are trying to see if there is any connection to explosions at the British consulate in May 2005, the Mexican consulate in October 2007 and at the Times Square military recruiting station in March 2008.
As of publication, the police said that no on suspect was in custody and no motive had been determined.