and April Fools should be a hoot next year at the UN. :-)
Posted on 09/19/2005 6:37:17 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - A blown fuse cut power to the top 23 floors of the U.N. headquarters on Monday, sending nonessential staff home on the third day of the annual General Assembly debate.
Officials said there had been no threat against the building, and the debate continued uninterrupted. The U.N. Web site was down as was phone service in the 39-story tower on Manhattan's East Side.
The outage forced U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan to relocate his lunch with the foreign ministers and ambassadors of the five permanent members of the Security Council, Britain, France, Russia, China and the United States.
Annan's chief of staff, Mark Malloch Brown, quipped during the lunch that the outage would give U.S. Ambassador John Bolton the chance to prove his claim, made 11 years ago, that it wouldn't make a "bit of difference" if the Secretariat lost its top 10 floors.
The remark drew a hearty laugh from the diplomats, their ministers - and Annan himself, the diplomat said.
U.N. officials said a 4,000-ampere fuse blew out on the 28th floor and repair work would take most of the night.
"That's a big fuse," U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said. "When the fuse blew, it welded some wiring together."
Well, Mr Brown, DID it make any difference?
Thought not.
FiRst, cut the power
then cut the funding..
I like it.
The 'Volt'n' Bolton Doctrine
Oh there are just soooooo many really nasty jokes in this.
DUring that time, the UN could make less crime through illegal bank transfers and that would be a GOOD THING.
Oh jeez, where to start?
Everybody left then?
A 4000 Amp fuse? I hate to have to screw in that sucker in the dark!
Those paper shredders must draw a lot of juice.
Gray Davis is the U.N.'s electrician.
LOL
Was that fuse Boltons?
Is "fuse" Bill Clinton's Secret Service codename?
If we leave the lights off do you think they will go away..
This is wonderful! I don't suppose it could happen twice, could it....?
;-D
In other news, I just ate an apple.
and April Fools should be a hoot next year at the UN. :-)
It was a homotron.
"Blown fuse cuts power at U.N. headquarters"
Love the headline, would that it were permanently true.
As if anyone at the UN believes in the Reason for the Season.
On the other hand, April Fool's Day presents some interesting possibilities...;-D
When the fuse was replaced, they still didn't have any power . . . they never had any power in the first place.
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