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.
Does anyone know when the terrorists had planned to board those planes in the UK? Would it be about now?
What city or state?
The Mets are playing the Padres at Shea as we speak.
More scary shiite!
The electric lines were down a few days ago. The airports closed, the cell phones off line...
Living in NY doesn't seem to be all it's cracked up to be.
Kennedy and Laguardia.
That's what I'm thinking.
"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."
That was my first thought, too.
It maybe nothing more than a disruption of a major feeder/connector somewhere along their system. Sprint had one that took out a huge area like MS, LA, TX and others when a contractor cut a main cable connector while digging on a job in Greenville, MS. So those things do happen
Hard to believe this is just a coincidence.
One or two carriers, it's a technical problem and a coincidence.
All the carriers, it's homeland security.
There is just TOO much common sense on this thread.....Just hope the terrorist have not taken down communication to use for their advantage. /tinfoil
Thx for the heads up
I know. I hope you're right, that it was to deter any attacks and not to assist in them...depends on who did the shutdown.
I will be working in Washington DC (actually out in the suburbs) for two weeks as of Tuesday, so assuming NYC is still target A, I should be somewhat safer. Right now I am working at top of the tallest building in lower Manhattan, and I do feel kind of exposed from time to time.
The subways scare me more than the building though.
How do those trac phones work? (the ones the terrorists bought)?
Hmmmm......less people driving and yakking at the same time. Less people in stores, restaurants, etc yakking to the annoyance of others. What's the downside?
A little tinfoil is probably in order today, hoosier......
Can cell phones be used to trigger an N-bomb? Just curious.
Wonder if this is a deliberate shut down of cell phone service -- by the phone company itself? So as to prevent their possible use as detonators?
OTOH, is it possible that unavailability of service doesn't necessarily impede use of a cellphone as a detonator?
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