Posted on 07/23/2014 11:34:38 AM PDT by bryan999
NYPD officials investigating how the two American flags on top of the Brooklyn Bridge were replaced with two white banners said Wednesday that the act was likely carried out by up to five intruders in two teams with knowledge of the bridge, The New York Post reported.
The teams' plan to evade police in four patrol cars included aluminum lasagna pans they used to cover the floodlights aimed at the flags during the switch at 3:29 a.m. Tuesday. The 11-by-20-foot white flags were first spotted at the break of dawn by a police officer, The Post reported.
"For someone to compromise that gate by going around it and continue to the top of the tower, have the right size cover to put over the light, there's some indication of some good deal of pre-operational planning, perhaps some indication that they have experience climbing in construction or in bridgework, or that they may have actually been up there before looking at the dimensions," John Miller, the deputy commissioner of intelligence, told the paper.
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Amish pranksters? ;)
Great political statement if you ask me. Says it all about our government right now.
Are they saying there may be folks in Brooklyn and Manhattan that are unaware of the bridge?
Probably obozo supporters stating the obvious!
Those were bleached flags, and entirely appropriate given our current ‘leader(less)ship’.
Shame they didn’t spend this kind of energy on the Boston Bombers. Surely the NSA would know.
Banners??
The white flags represent Obama bowing down to our enemies and surrendering to Iran and other terrorist countries. We have been surrendering since November 2008 when idiots elected a Communist douche bag
“TRANQUIL” America.
“Amish pranksters? ;)
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Hardly,this took brains. The MIT kids could do it.
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Clearly a flag of surrender....
motive and agenda depend on weather this is meant as a statement on America’s current condition or as a directive, a la “Surrender Dorothy”
one thing I would bet is that it is not some college student’s art project
Yes, they had the technical expertise to cover the flood lights on each end of the bridge with a big foil roasting pan as they switched the flags!
Obviously, someone was sleeping on the job and wasn’t monitoring the video feed that showed people on the bridge at 3:00 AM. So much for feeling safe in NYC after 9/11.
NYer’s surrendering their rights.
I would suggest union ironworkers
Since all iron workers in NYC have to be union they get the credit.
Have the iron workers deserted Obama? yes...
This probably wasn’t the first time since 9-11, and won’t be the last; just one they couldn’t cover-up and ignore.
Good call!
Imagine the consequences if the perpetrators were Muslims like the 9/11 terrorists with explosives. Where the hell was security?
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