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Major cellphone outage reported in New York
Reuters ^ | 8/10/06 | Reuters

Posted on 08/10/2006 10:21:29 AM PDT by Sleeping Freeper

New York police reported a major outage of cellular phone service in the borough of Queens on Thursday.

"It's just an FYI. It has nothing to do with anything else. It's not criminal," a police spokesman said.

Two of New York's major airports -- JFK and LaGuardia -- are in the borough of Queens. Airport security was intensified after British police said they had foiled a plot to blow up several aircraft flying between Britain and the United States.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; US: New York
KEYWORDS: cellphones; nyc
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To: Sleeping Freeper

Cell service down as part of homeland security measures, is my guess.


101 posted on 08/10/2006 11:08:12 AM PDT by OldFriend (I Pledge Allegiance to the Flag.....and My Heart to the Soldier Who Protects It.)
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To: CT-Freeper

That's helpful. Thanks for posting it.


102 posted on 08/10/2006 11:10:20 AM PDT by Gamecock ("Jesus came to raise the dead. He did not come to teach the teachable." Robert Farrar Capon)
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To: DoctorMichael

When were those pictures taken?

Where did you get the celebration notice - Sept. 10?

Please advise.


103 posted on 08/10/2006 11:16:42 AM PDT by milford421 (U.N. OUT OF U.S.)
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To: Moonman62; All

It seems to me that the cell companies could with the US government's urging occaisionally "test" ring all cell phones at once.....the IED's that go boom...well that's where the terrorists WERE( personally snickering)! You catch many terrorist cells with their pants down with that strategy!


104 posted on 08/10/2006 11:20:37 AM PDT by mdmathis6 (Proof against evolution:"Man is the only creature that blushes, or needs to" M.Twain)
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To: TexasGunLover

Thanks for the link - I got busy and never turned on the local news the next day for an update - that was the weirdest thing !!


105 posted on 08/10/2006 11:35:56 AM PDT by finallyatexan
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To: Sleeping Freeper
Major cellphone outage reported in New York

I guess someone decided to stop cellphone detonators from going off in New York today.

106 posted on 08/10/2006 11:36:49 AM PDT by Centurion2000 (Islam is a subsingularity memetic perversion : (http://www.orionsarm.com/topics/perversities.html))
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To: milford421

I did a Google-Search of the keywords 'Queens' and 'Muslims' in IMAGE mode and copied the descriptions of the pictures along with the image-locations. I found the 'celebration' notice on a website listing community announcements; there were a lot more there.


107 posted on 08/10/2006 11:39:08 AM PDT by DoctorMichael (A wall first. A wall now.)
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To: shortstop
Politically Correct baseball:

The Madres vs. the Pets.

108 posted on 08/10/2006 11:50:02 AM PDT by Erasmus (<This page left intentionally vague>)
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To: Sleeping Freeper

It's obvious that certain high-powered LEO's shut down the cell towers until the security situation sorts itself out.


109 posted on 08/10/2006 11:50:54 AM PDT by Tallguy (The problem with this war is the name... You don't wage war against a tactic.)
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To: OldFriend

I will be driving home through Queens after work - I will report back.


110 posted on 08/10/2006 11:53:04 AM PDT by oceanview
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To: Sleeping Freeper

PANIC!!!!!!! AAAAAIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!


111 posted on 08/10/2006 11:53:57 AM PDT by stuck_in_new_orleans
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To: oceanview
I will be driving home through Queens after work - I will report ba

uhhh....report back what? That life is still going on in Queens despite that there isnt any cell phone service for the time being?

112 posted on 08/10/2006 11:54:42 AM PDT by stuck_in_new_orleans
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets; wtc911

are you kidding me? Queens, on its own, with two major airports plus everything else - is probably bigger then most US cities.


113 posted on 08/10/2006 11:54:58 AM PDT by oceanview
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To: stuck_in_new_orleans

report as to whether cell phones are working.


114 posted on 08/10/2006 11:55:58 AM PDT by oceanview
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To: Gamecock
From a terrorist's perspective what in Queens is worth blowing up?

Not sure about the terrorist's perspective, but if you're a Philly or Atlanta fan, you may want to knock off the Mets, who play at Shea Statium, which is located at the end of the LGA's runway.

115 posted on 08/10/2006 11:57:12 AM PDT by Labyrinthos
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To: oceanview
report as to whether cell phones are working.

please dont...if you report back that they arent then some of the nutballs here are gonna snap and start hoarding food and ammo in their basements

116 posted on 08/10/2006 11:57:14 AM PDT by stuck_in_new_orleans
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To: saganite
Since cellphones are triggering devices for bombs it would make sense to shut down service in the vicinity of an airport if there was a suspected threat.

Nothing to see here, move along...™

117 posted on 08/10/2006 11:57:40 AM PDT by null and void (A's hire A's, B's hire C's. -- Donald Rumsfeld,)
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To: oceanview
I'm a big fan of Queens, always have been.

And, as I posted earlier, I've had no problems making or receiving cell calls to or from folks there at all.

118 posted on 08/10/2006 11:58:24 AM PDT by wtc911 (You can't get there from here)
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To: Froufrou
I thought you had that vigilante dude Black Angels or whatever protecting the subways. In fact, I rather thought that's where the Minute Men dude got his idea.

The Guardian Angels are Cutis Sliva's guys, and supposedly the DO patrol the subways, but I think I've seen two in 20+ years of riding the trains. The police presence has been periodically pretty heavy this summer. There was a terrorist threat back in August after India got bombed, and I had my back checked once or twice. The sad truth is that the terrorists can hit us there whenever they want, and eventually they will. If there is an attack on the subways and I am not right back up on FR within a few days, you'll know they got me.

I used to work in the WTC. I was away on business on September 11.

119 posted on 08/10/2006 11:59:48 AM PDT by presidio9 (“The term ‘civilians’ does not exist in Islamic religious law.”)
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To: presidio9
I used to work in the WTC. I was away on business on September 11.

I'm very sorry, Pres. You must have lost a lot of friends and associates. I was alone that day and even at the distance I still can hardly believe what happened.

But, perhaps you're too plucky for 'em, anyway.
120 posted on 08/10/2006 12:04:24 PM PDT by Froufrou
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