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Posted: 10/9/2004 5:04:08 PM EDT
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When dealing with critical infrastructure, there is no such thing as a prank.
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Posted: 10/9/2004 5:04:39 PM EDT
[#2]
pretty risky and a lil early for a Halloween prank.
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Posted: 10/9/2004 5:06:59 PM EDT
[#3]
they removed the bolts?
 I though those pesky terrorist type people always used explosives to get their way. This sounds more like "hey bubba, betcha a case of beer you can't get that bolt outta there" "ok, hold my beer and watch this" |
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Posted: 10/9/2004 5:08:43 PM EDT
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A couple weeks ago, the electric company was pulling tight - installing - our 138 kv line. They were thinking gosh, it is getting mighty hard to pull, or something like that. They went to check it out, and a 52" bull moose got his head tangled in the wire and got pulled to nearly powerline height.
We potted it and turned it into fish and game, who turned it over to the food bank. |
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Posted: 10/9/2004 5:18:38 PM EDT
[#5]
Ouch. |
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Posted: 10/9/2004 5:19:07 PM EDT
[#6]
I've always wondered when the terrorists would start picking off these easy targets.
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Posted: 10/9/2004 5:19:16 PM EDT
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Alternatively, some dude was building something in his garage, needed some bolts, and Home Depot was closed …
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Posted: 10/9/2004 5:24:08 PM EDT
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I remember a while back reading an article about a bunch of ecoterrorist, fruit and granola types pulling bolts out of power sites out west, maybe they are branching out.
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Posted: 10/9/2004 5:26:54 PM EDT
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PH33R the POW3R of ELF |
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Posted: 10/9/2004 5:28:42 PM EDT
[#10]
Yeah, sounds like the work of the ELF (Earth Liberation Front). They have been known to perform similar acts in the past.
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Posted: 10/9/2004 5:30:06 PM EDT
[#11]
Two really drunk rednecks were four wheelin down the powerline and got a flat. Really drunk.
Hey Ned!! These lugnuts is realy tight and could ya lower the jack a bit???!!!! |
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Posted: 10/9/2004 5:32:11 PM EDT
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Those wankers... I'm not ready to call Islamic Terror on this one.... ELF possibly, but I'd go with the "hey watch this" circumstance at the moment... - BG |
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Posted: 10/9/2004 5:35:53 PM EDT
[#13]
Yeah, it could be a couple guys who consumed one too many PBRs and said, "Hold my beer and watch this...."
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Posted: 10/9/2004 6:11:50 PM EDT
[#14]
Some REALLY big bolts... |
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Posted: 10/9/2004 6:26:57 PM EDT
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READ "THE MONKEY WRENCH GANG" BY EDWARD ABBEY. A ROLLICKING STORY ABOUT ECO-VANDALISM AT IT'S FINEST!
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Posted: 10/9/2004 6:31:47 PM EDT
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Remember the Two Transformer station fires in a week in arizona????
Never ever happened before.... 2 in one week. |
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Posted: 10/9/2004 6:48:05 PM EDT
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DU troll just outed himself.....
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Posted: 10/9/2004 6:51:26 PM EDT
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Quoted:
DU troll just outed himself..... Reading subversive literature does not make you a subversive, unless you believe in the ideals espoused. However given teh number of offensive newbs lately, I will add a couple of  , just for good measure.
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Posted: 10/9/2004 6:55:50 PM EDT
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No DU troll. It was a novel that I enjoyed in my youth, I believe it was published in the early seventies.
A motley crew consisting of a doctor, a mormon, a vietnam vet, and a beautiful young woman (the doctor's girlfriend) that set out on an escapade of destruction in the southwest. They burned billboards, derailed trains, yanked surveyor stakes, sabotaged coal conveyors and heavy equipment, and much much more. There was some good firearms stuff in it too. A great read! |
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Posted: 10/9/2004 6:57:48 PM EDT
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Over at DU they are saying it's the republicans trying to scare folks into voting for Bush Need to raise the terra alert ya know.. DU=DimFuck
edited to complet my thought
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Posted: 10/9/2004 7:02:16 PM EDT
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About 20 years ago ELF or PETA did that same thing in Minnesota
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Posted: 10/9/2004 7:05:29 PM EDT
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ELF and PETA = TERRORISTS...KILL 'EM...
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Posted: 10/9/2004 7:09:04 PM EDT
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Oh crap, so if I said I read the Turner Diaries I'm a white supremacist? |
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Posted: 10/9/2004 7:16:56 PM EDT
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Update: well, no news really. Power was out for 17000 residents, all restored now. The airport functioned on back-up power. One tower may have fallen into the other and caused some lines to fall on adjacent railroad tracks. A LE spokesman stated on the 10PM news that they are waiting for the power co. people to secure the downed lines before they can investigate. He refused to speculate as to a cause for the tower(s) collapse. When asked about a rumored FBI statement allegging sabotage, he deferred comment. Surprisingly; the local news media are not doing their usual hype job.
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Posted: 10/9/2004 7:19:46 PM EDT
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Maybe the bolts should be welded on other transmission towers as a safety precaution? At least the lower ones that are accessible to most people with ladders.
Power system disruption is very easy. You can do it just by throwing a length of uninsulated wire over the transmission lines. A crossbow or standard bow and arrow will launch a suitable length of cable over the lines and accomplish the job. A handful of coat hangers twisted into larger structure like a net, tossed into a substation, can devastate it if it lands in the right spot. It's easy to mess with the power system, but it's also pretty dangerous. The local substation has three heavy feed lines leading into a single pole and from there into the grid. that single pole is under so much tension from the heavy feed lines that it looks like a slingshot about to be fired. It must be bending nearly fifteen degrees. Some day that pole's just going to snap. CJ |
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Posted: 10/9/2004 7:30:04 PM EDT
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No boom...
Not foreign terrorisim... Although I wouldn't rule out the enviroweenies, sounds like someone had a beef with (a) the airport, or (b) WE Energies (friendly local power monopoly)... Probably closer to 'Bulldozer Bob' than Osama Bin laden... If it had been foreign terrorists they would have used a bomb & made repairs much more difficult... P.S. I live in Milwaukee... The airport is fine, they have backups (uh, duh)... |
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Posted: 10/9/2004 7:30:42 PM EDT
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This is probably going to turn out to be some kind of freak accident. You know, like somebody walking their male lab along the power right-of-way, dog pisses on the same tower leg every day and the resulting corrosion eventually weakens it, something like that. Will report back when there's more news.
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Posted: 10/9/2004 7:31:42 PM EDT
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There's nowhere to 4-wheel around this airport... It's in an urban area, surrounded by commercial real-estate (and some houses, who's owners consistantly whine to the Govt about the noise, despite the fact that they knowingly moved in nest to a GODDAMN INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT).... |
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Posted: 10/9/2004 7:43:39 PM EDT
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This reminds me of the "Stromsaeger" (powerline sawers, literally) that used to saw high tension power masts apart in W Germany years ago. Wackjob enviro types who would sometimes get electrocuted and be found fried to a crispy, crackly crunch.* Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of assholes.....
*"Schmeckt nach...Brathendl!"
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