No fewer than three street vendors have claimed credit for helping to prevent the Times Square bombing by alerting police of Faisal Shahzad's smoking SUV. Now the New York Times reports they are fighting amongst themselves. Who's winning?

A kink emerges in the tidy "hero vendor" storyline of yesterday's Times Square bomb incident. Three different people are being reported as the eagle-eyed vendor who notified police about the smoking SUV and saved thousands of tourists from being exploded.

Lance Orton: Our hero! He is the Vietnam vet and T-shirt vendor who saved Times Square by noticing that there was a bomb inside of an SUV and notifying police. But why won't he love us like we love him?