On most days, Lance Horton and Duane M. Jackson blend into the cacophony of New York’s Times Square, hawking T-shirts and cheap watches to tourists from Buffalo to Buenos Aires. Last weekend, the men stood out for their alert reaction to a sight that seemed odd even in this most unusual of American playgrounds.
Mr. Horton and Mr. Jackson are the vendors and disabled Vietnam veterans who tipped off Police Officer Wayne Rhatigan Saturday evening to a smoldering Nissan Pathfinder that had been left parked and running on a side street just off Broadway. The vehicle contained propane, gasoline, firecrackers and homemade detonating devices. The materials miraculously did not fully ignite, averting an explosion that New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said would have caused death, injuries and significant property damage….