Posted on 08/11/2006 11:08:06 AM PDT by george76
Around 1:00am August 11th three men purchased cell phones from the Wal-Mart store on M-81 near the corner of M-24 in Caro.
Wal-Mart places a limit on the number of cell phones that can be purchased at once, that number is three.
The three men allegedly bought 80 by purchasing them three at time so that an alert wouldn't be triggered by the cash register.
They also paid cash.
An alert clerk grew suspicious and called Tuscola County central dispatch. The Caro Police Department sent a unit and stopped the rented van on M-81 just east of Caro. The suspects were headed towards Bad Axe on M-81 where there is another Super Wal-Mart.
The three men were described as being of Pakistani descent but live in Texas.
Police say the three, ages 19, 22, and 23 appear to be naturalized citizens.
One man was driving while the other two were in the back opening the phone packages with box cutters throwing the phones in one box, batteries in another and the packaging and phone charger in another container.
The suspects had 1000 other cell phones in the van. There was also a bag of receipts showing that someone was in Wisconsin the day before.
The phones were Nokia Tracfones selling for $20 at Wal-Mart. For your twenty dollars you receive a phone charger and 40 minutes of airtime.
The phones do not have to be registered with a name.
Also discovered was a laptop with store addresses and store logos.
(Excerpt) Read more at wnem.com ...
wonder if they follow the peaceful religion of islam...;)
...."The three men were described as being of Pakistani descent but live in Texas. Police say the three, ages 19, 22, and 23 appear to be naturalized citizens."
..."One man was driving while the other two were in the back opening the phone packages with box cutters throwing the phones in one box, batteries in another and the packaging and phone charger in another container. The suspects had 1000 other cell phones in the van. There was also a bag of receipts showing that someone was in Wisconsin the day before."
"can you fear me now?"
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LOL!
Excellent point :
"Quite a rash of this going on right now. Wonder if the 22nd is the target date as the leader of Iran alluded to."
Just because the UK caught 25 muslims planning to blow up ten airplanes for the fifth anniversary of 9-11...does not mean that AL Q is not also planning some USA stuff with cell phones.
Can we imagine many 1000's of cell phone bombs going off at the same time in the US !
"Billhilly, keep your eyes open and stay safe. "
Thanks, but I only have one eye. It never sleeps though.
"The clueless Feds will deny they're on a Jihad."
Obviously, we have fallen short on "community outreach."
Quoting South Park's Office Barbrady "Nothing to see here, move along." /sarcasm
Perhaps they are sending them as care packages to soldiers in Iraq?
Either way it is enough for me or anyone with any kind of clue to be suspicious of this so-called capitalist activity.
We have many wives and children.
The other lucky phones get to become detonators for IED's.
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I don't know anything about how IEDs work, but wouldn't the phone need its batteries to be used to detonate an IED? I am assuming that the remote detonation is achieved by calling the phone in the device.
"Just that there are stupid people out there that buy things for more than they are worth.
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Well, nobody's buying tracfones above retail on eBay. I doubt anyone's buying them anywhere above retail. It's always good to check.
they don't buy them for their phone purposes, they buy them for the parts which could be used in more nefarious ways
That is a good one.
1000's at 40 minutes each.
What color is the sky in your world?
...to people to stupid to go the Wal Mart and buy phones for $20?
I guess I could be true in Chicago. No Wal Marts.
You use it once, then throw it away. Makes it impossible for your calls to be monitored.
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Then why remove the batteries?
"once again- Wal-Mart is doing more to protect America than the NYSlimes will EVER DO! Yet the libs and the media love to bash Wal-Mart.... "
another reason for libs to hate wal-mart...;)
"What color is the sky in your world?"
Everything's rosy. The Lumster's wearing rose-colored glasses, you see...
Couldn't someone generate a generic photo of a 20-something Middle Eastern-looking man, and direct Wal-Mart employees to hit a panic button any time one shows up to make a purchase? At this point I think the purchase of ANYTHING by one of these individuals can be, legitimately, viewed with suspicion. They shouldn't be allowed to purchase liquids of any kind, and if CAIR thinks that's unfair then notify the f**&&^& terrorists that they started it first.
The disease of liberalism that has infected the ALF and ELF fools has removed their ability to see the true murderous intent of the muzzies, the same muzzies who will slaughter the ALF and ELF fools when the time comes.
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