It Sounded Like a Bomb Went Off

This my friends is my all-time favourite eye witness quote.

It must have been 15 years ago when I first came upon it in the Star. The story was about some poor soul who decided to jump off the roof of the Eaton Centre's Queen Street Tower. He ended up crashing through the glass gallery and into the Second Cup on the top retail floor.

I present to you highlights of today's Yahoo News Search:

Air Force dispatchers struck by lightning over phone lines August 26Teresa Cummings says she was taking a 911 call around 5 p.m. Thursday when she heard a boom.
“When it first hit, it sounded like a bomb went off,” she said.

Lightning strikes Sherwood house twice July 27
“I didn’t know if it had hit my house, but it sounded like a bomb went off,” said neighbor Charline Meadows, who lives at nearby on Devon.

LR man found guilty in murder, robbery August 3
Evans, 21, admitted she and Dobbins hoped to buy cocaine from Herrod when they met him outside Legend’s Sports Bar at 9700 N. Rodney Parham Road about 4:30 a.m. March 2. Herrod got in the back seat of her car and directed the couple to the Topaz Court cul-de-sac, where Herrod shot Dobbins in the back of the head without warning, Evans told jurors. “I just heard a big bang. It sounded like a bomb went off,” she said. “Cody just fell back.”

Clark resident among plane crash victims August 28
Winchester Sun employee Laverne Fain lives in Lexington at 1927 Dunkirk Drive, off Versailles Road. Her husband was sitting on the front porch when the plane exploded.
"He said it sounded like a bomb went off," said Laverne

Racing has pull on Purvis, but maybe he'll walk away August 20
Purvis was riding in the hauler with his wife Margo, 15-year-old son Clay, and crewmen Matt and Rocky Angel and Ben Britt when the hauler's left-front tire suddenly exploded.
"It sounded like a bomb went off," Purvis said. "I knew instantly we were in trouble."

And my personal favourite of the lot:

Police: Teens Detonated Pipe Bombs In Two States August 21
Police said the teens left almost a dozen bombs in South Royalton, Vt., and Lebanon, Canaan and Enfield, N.H., over the course of four days. Elizabeth Smith of Enfield said her home shook on Friday night as one of the explosives detonated. "It sounded like a bomb went off. We didn't know what had happened," said Smith.

Hmmm...a bomb going off sounded like a bomb going off.

Now that's funny.

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