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Theory of 2 teams floated by NYPD in Brooklyn Bridge flag-swipe
FOX news ^
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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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: brooklynbridge; security; vandalism
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To: bryan999
I find it so funny that they act like because they knew how to get to the top was the smoking gun that this was pre-planned. How about the fact they had 2 bleached out flags to replace the flags that were up there made. I am guessing you don’t just go to the local hardware to purchase that.
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posted on
07/23/2014 12:04:42 PM PDT
by
gunnut
To: golf lover
Perhaps Security was in on the operation....
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posted on
07/23/2014 12:05:14 PM PDT
by
moose07
(the truth will out ,one day. Doggies Rock.)
To: bryan999
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... This is a direct result of New York's notoriously weak lasagna-pan-control laws....
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posted on
07/23/2014 12:12:34 PM PDT
by
WayneS
(Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
To: rjsimmon
..only if they’ve living under a rock... ...or a bridge...
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posted on
07/23/2014 12:13:34 PM PDT
by
WayneS
(Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
To: bryan999
The lack of message just seems lame.
For that much work it needed to make a statement.
Like “Impeach Baraq”
or
“Obama for Grand Caliph of ISIS”
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posted on
07/23/2014 12:16:34 PM PDT
by
nascarnation
(Toxic Baraq Syndrome: hopefully infecting a Dem candidate near you)
To: gunnut
I carry gigantic bleached American flags around with me ALL the time. I like to be prepared.
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posted on
07/23/2014 12:17:02 PM PDT
by
WayneS
(Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
To: bryan999
Tight security.........NOT
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posted on
07/23/2014 12:19:23 PM PDT
by
nuconvert
( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
To: txrefugee
So much for feeling safe in NYC after 9/11.
This comes only months after the new WTC was broken into - by a teenager no less.
Just wait until terrorists get a suitcase nuke. NYC is doomed.
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posted on
07/23/2014 12:20:46 PM PDT
by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: bryan999
Could it be a terrorist “go” signal?
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posted on
07/23/2014 12:25:34 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
To: oh8eleven
Just wait until terrorists get a suitcase nuke.I bet they have several. And I further bet the nukes came into the US via our Swiss cheese southern border.
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posted on
07/23/2014 12:29:50 PM PDT
by
upchuck
(It's a shame nobama truly doesn't care about any of this. Our country, our future, he doesn't care.)
To: bryan999
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.Lasagna pans, eh?
.I suppose they're scouring Little Italy, then.
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posted on
07/23/2014 12:36:16 PM PDT
by
FrdmLvr
("WE ARE ALL OSAMA, 0BAMA!" al-Qaeda terrorists who breached the American compound in Benghazi)
To: upchuck
I further bet the nukes came into the US via our Swiss cheese southern border. 2012 NYC Votes For Obama:
Bronx - 91.2%
Brooklyn - 81.4%
Manhattan - 84.2%
Queens - 78.8%
Staten Island - 49.9%
Sayonara ...
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posted on
07/23/2014 12:40:34 PM PDT
by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: bryan999
mmm ... lasagna... as far as I got.
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posted on
07/23/2014 12:49:15 PM PDT
by
reed13k
(For evil to triumph it is only necessary for good men to do nothings)
To: bryan999
Some suggest it was in reference to the moon landing.
To: windcliff
All the USA flags on the moon have been really bleached out and are now white.
To: strider44
Great political statement if you ask me.
Or one helluva promotional stunt for New and Improved Snowy Bleach
To: nascarnation
The white flag of surrender with a faded image of Old Glory in the background doesn’t seem like a lame message to me..
Imagine if more of these start to pop up at various national landmarks....
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posted on
07/23/2014 1:44:37 PM PDT
by
longfellowsmuse
(last of the living nomads)
To: bryan999
How do we know they were switched ? Couldn’t the perps just have lowered them and saturated them with bleach ? Wouldn’t that have been quicker and easier ?
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posted on
07/23/2014 1:45:47 PM PDT
by
XRdsRev
(New Jersey - Crossroads of the American Revolution)
To: XRdsRev
I believe I read the white flags were a different size than the ones removed and also of a different material.
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posted on
07/23/2014 2:04:06 PM PDT
by
longfellowsmuse
(last of the living nomads)
To: longfellowsmuse
But it’s not at all obvious to me (and I assume most others) what it means.
Is this somebody from our side showing how that the fedgov has surrendered as far as illegal immigration? That (with the bridge context) is what I’d take it to be.
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posted on
07/23/2014 2:06:56 PM PDT
by
nascarnation
(Toxic Baraq Syndrome: hopefully infecting a Dem candidate near you)
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