Posted on 01/05/2009 4:12:38 PM PST by RaceBannon
UPDATED - ALERT - Frightening Text Messages Being Forwarded Around NY Jews January 2, 2009 3:00PM EST: [UPDATE BELOW] With the situation in Gaza deteriorating by the day, and anti-semitism rampant around the world, thousands of NY Jews were frightened upon receiving the following text message which has been going around on Friday afternoon:
“A Jewish woman gave a tip to a Muslim taxi driver and out of appreciation he warned her not to go to Manhattan next week Wednesday.”
YWN has reached out to high-ranking members of the NYPD, and have stated that although they received the same text message, “there are no credible threats to be concerned about - and don’t even know where this text message originated from”.
The only message that they do have for the public is the same message that they have been saying since 9/11. That message is “always be aware of your surroundings, be vigilant, and if you see anything suspicious contact the police department immediately to report what you have seen”.
UPDATE 3:50PM EST: YWN has just spoken with NYS Assemblyman Dov Hikind who tells us that he has received various reports regarding this ‘threat’ and has personally contacted the FBI who is currently investigating them.
He thanked YWN for our alert to calm the public, and echoed the call for calm and vigilance at anytime and any location. “If you see something, say something,” Hikind said.
“The FBI and the NYPD take these types of threats very seriously, and investigate them thoroughly to ensure the safety of the public.”
May Hashem protect us from no harm - no matter where in the world we are located.
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(Yehuda Drudgestein - YWN)
Thanks for the info RB. i lived in NYC during 9/11 and take this seriously.
Got it, thanks.
Obviously the first part of the quote, “The death is a certainty for mankind” is the message.
I am taking this threat seriously. It might not just be NYC for all we know.
Prayers going up for the safety of our nation.
got more confirmation today
NYPD, JTTF, FBI are taking the cabbie thing seriously, but arent sure where to take it
Better to be safe than sorry. Avoid NYC on Wednesday. There is more at play here than text messages and cabbie gossip. Race is right.
I was asked once to write a NYC attack scenarios (by US Army CID of all people). One involved taxis and the ubiquitious hotdog/pretzel/coffee carts. There are hundreds of these carts scattered in the most crowded areas. They are invisible. They are 700 pounds of metal and plexi-glass (add 300 pounds of ball bearings for game-day). They already carry propane. They are already in Manhattan. They are almost exclusively muslim run.
An attack of the coffee carts would cripple NYC for a decade.
> Fair enough. It sounds like y’all are jockeying for position in the top few percentile, and I don’t have a dog in that civic pride fight.
It’s not really a civic pride thing. My point is that even in really clean, pure water you can get algae happening, and that if I can do it with Waitakere City water, it can certainly be done with NYC water.
As to NYC tap water being unlikely to be cleaner than ours, that’s just commonsense. North America has smog, we don’t. North America has acid rain, we don’t. North America has all sorts of ways water can get polluted by heavy industry, we don’t.
Our water comes from clouds that come straight off the South Pacific Ocean, hit our mountains immediately and fall down as rain, with no time to pick up pollutants. What pollutants might be there get strained off by heavy jungle that surrounds the catchment before hitting our reservoirs — where it is practically pure. Then, unlike NYC, it does go thru filter stations, but this is for turbidity not purity...
NYC’s water may be as clean as that — I dunno. But it is highly unlikely to be cleaner than that.
I hope I’ve clarified my point: pissing matches about civic stuff serve no purpose, really.
Thank you for sharing this info with us, Race.
ping
Pinging. Fyi.
Of interest:
This revolutionary website is run by a New York cabbie:
http://www.revolutionmuslim.com/
WARNING: Explicit Violent Content
New York’s Muslim cabbies are NOT our friends!!!
Thanks LucyT
146 Israelis died. Contrast that to the number of people from muslim countries. 4. Total.
Internet hoax.
I had a friend several years ago who recieved an email telling him of a very serious computor virus and told him to check to see if his computer had a certain file. Well he checked, sent everyone in his email list a warning and told them if they found the same file to delete it.
Well to make a long story short the file was an important part of the system and once deleted the computer shut down..
yeah ok. and how many muslims worked at the twin towers in proportion to israelis? come on.
We're still here. Just have to wade through some bootlickers and idiots' posts from time to time.
Semper Fi, Race.
They were all driving cabs...
Just a warning to others...clicking on that Snopes link prompted 3 pop-ups and froze my computer up for a few minutes. Ugh....
They fly planes into buildings and you expect wisdom from them?
Turn it around and please consider this; it would be the ultimate insult to the USA and President Bush to nail NYC just as his term expires and a muslim takes office to prevent further retaliation.
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