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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: presidio9
I used to work in the WTC. I was away on business on September 11. That's very suspicious...
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posted on
08/10/2006 12:05:36 PM PDT
by
null and void
(A's hire A's, B's hire C's. -- Donald Rumsfeld,)
To: Bogtrotter52
What's the downside? LOL...same thought. It will either increase or decrease the number of traffic accidents by 50%. Traffic patterns will go haywire.
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posted on
08/10/2006 12:05:45 PM PDT
by
World'sGoneInsane
(LET NO ONE BE FORGOTTEN, LET NO ONE FORGET)
To: saganite
Unfortunately you could trigger the mobile to set the bomb off if no call was recieved for more than 30 minutes.
To: MineralMan
Fortunately, I have no plans to visit NYC anytime soon. My work no longer calls for it. Too bad. I enjoy New York.Nothing is going to happen in NYC. I know that because Michael Chernoff told us so when he reallocated homeland security funds from NYC to Omaha and Fargo.
To: null and void
That's very suspicious... The Jooz called me and told me not to go to work that day. BTW, I was also on Leonardo da Vinci airport in Rome the day of its terrorist attack in the 80's. I'm sort of like the "Bomb Magnet" Pali woman from my other thread today.
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posted on
08/10/2006 12:08:21 PM PDT
by
presidio9
(“The term ‘civilians’ does not exist in Islamic religious law.”)
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. "Shut down the grid!" --Die Hard
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posted on
08/10/2006 12:09:08 PM PDT
by
Aquinasfan
(When you find "Sola Scriptura" in the Bible, let me know)
To: stuck_in_new_orleans
There goes Cingular's dropped call promo....
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posted on
08/10/2006 12:10:54 PM PDT
by
Tallguy
(The problem with this war is the name... You don't wage war against a tactic.)
To: Froufrou
Went to 20 funerals. Life goes on.
The only thing that ever gets me down is the fact that there are people here in NYC that refuse to admit that we are at war.
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posted on
08/10/2006 12:11:10 PM PDT
by
presidio9
(“The term ‘civilians’ does not exist in Islamic religious law.”)
To: presidio9
Stupidity is always painful to witness.
That's okay, Frou loves you.
To: presidio9
I knew it wuz da Jooooooooooos!!!
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posted on
08/10/2006 12:13:55 PM PDT
by
null and void
(A's hire A's, B's hire C's. -- Donald Rumsfeld,)
To: Froufrou
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posted on
08/10/2006 12:18:50 PM PDT
by
presidio9
(“The term ‘civilians’ does not exist in Islamic religious law.”)
To: oceanview
LOL...thanks and do ignore the dufuses.....LOL
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posted on
08/10/2006 12:24:07 PM PDT
by
OldFriend
(I Pledge Allegiance to the Flag.....and My Heart to the Soldier Who Protects It.)
To: MikefromOhio
Yeah... no reason to suspect anything's up today.
To: Sleeping Freeper
NEW YORK, Aug 10 (Reuters) - Sprint Nextel Corp. (S,Trade) said an outage of its cellphone service in parts of the New York borough of Queens on Thursday was caused by water damage to network equipment due to a burst pipe....
So first, it's the electric lines that go out, then the water lines, then the cell phones...
Sounds like obsolesence is taking a toll on NYC.
To: presidio9
very true. even this AM on the radio - the bulk of the coverage didn't center around the terror threat, it centered around the people at the airports being "inconvenienced". the radio talking head was interviewing all these whiners.
To: oceanview
For the most part that's all these morons see a new threat as these days. An inconvenience. I'll be pretty inconveinient when some Pali takes out a couple of hundred people at GCT or Penn Station at rush hour some day.
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posted on
08/10/2006 12:41:12 PM PDT
by
presidio9
(“The term ‘civilians’ does not exist in Islamic religious law.”)
To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
And when it's restored because they had to fix a tower or something?
Cell phone outages happened well BEFORE 9/11 was ever dreamt of...
It's tinfoil nuttery to think that each and every thing is somehow terror related.
To: oceanview
Growing up in Queens, with two million other people, before Geraldine Ferraro, I was used to folks from Utica or Fort Lee looking at you quizzically when you said you were from Queens, which only had three times the population of Boston. For the most part, people from Queens used to refer to themselves as being from the "town" in Queens they were from, e.g., Rego Park or Forest Hills.
Geraldine Ferraro put Queens on the map, as it were. The MSM had to find a way to describe her besides a housewife from tony Forest Hills, so she was dubbed a housewife from Queens, with a backdrop shot of a grimy elevated subway somewhere in South Ozone Park.
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posted on
08/10/2006 1:01:42 PM PDT
by
Lonesome in Massachussets
(NYT Headline: 'Protocols of the Learned Elders of CBS: Fake But Accurate, Experts Say.')
To: MikefromOhio
I'm not particularly concerned with whatever colorful slurs you choose to apply to people who may have their guard up today. I do know there was a massive terror attack planned in which the attackers intended to use cell phones to detonate explosives designed to kill thousands of civilians. Therefore, I will consider the possibility that a major outage - especially one in NYC -- could be related to the days events.
If considering a possibility on a day like today is considered "tinfoil nuttery", I guess we'll just have to live with that.
To: wtc911
Americans, clown. Well, as far as I know it could be nothing but a warehouse district.
I would assume by your screen name you would have an appreciation for the fact that terrorists go after Americans in symbolic targets. A strike against some row houses is not of the same value to their warped minds as say a major international airport. (and thanks to all who have helped we poor bumpkins who ain't neer been to New York.)
But thanks for your insightful, contemplative answer. You are a credit to FR.
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posted on
08/10/2006 1:42:11 PM PDT
by
Gamecock
("Jesus came to raise the dead. He did not come to teach the teachable." Robert Farrar Capon)
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