Posted on 03/26/2004 3:13:35 PM PST by hsmomx3
(Tucson-AP) _ There have been at least 29 acts of sabotage of natural gas pipelines and other gas facilities in Pima and Pinal counties over the past three years.
The Arizona Daily Star says according to a search warrant, the acts have endangered the lives of thousands of residents.
There have been no injuries, however.
One of the acts, could have caused an explosion in SaddleBrooke _ a retirement community north of Tucson.
No one has been charged in that act, which the F-B-I considers an act of terrorism.
However, the F- 1/8B-I has searched the home of a former Southwest Gas welder who was fired in 1998. An F-B-I spokeswoman declines to say whether that man is formally considered a suspect.
(Copyright 2004 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
That jumped out at me.
I knew quite a few Gas Co welders in Texas and Louisiana… young-ish kids that were already well on the road to alcoholism and drug abuse (the ones I knew anyway).
Several of them had T-shirts with the company logo but they’d had them altered at the mall to have a message on the back that read “If you see me running, try and keep up.” Ha.
Sorta sad in hindsight because they were decent-enough kids, but they’d show up at work at 19 or 20 years old with a pint of vodka in them, “loosened up” and ready to go… ‘Course, that might explain a few screw-ups that happened over the years too…
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