Posted on 01/27/2008 6:34:59 PM PST by RDTF
NEW YORK Its been dubbed the Empire State Building Effect." And now questions are being raised as to whether the famous skyscraper may really be Manhattans version of the Bermuda Triangle.
Every day about 10-15 cars and trucks simply stop working within a 5-block radius of the 102-story building, according to a report in the New York Daily News.
In one recent incident, a person said he had to lock his vehicle manually because the keyless remote-controlled lock was disabled. He came back to find he was locked out and had to call a car service which used a crowbar to get the door open, the Daily News writes.
The alleged effect dissipates rapidly as you move away from the building. You pull the car four or five blocks to the west or east and the car starts right up, says Isaac Leviev, manager of Citywide Towing, in the Daily News report.
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I need another drink....
mass hysteria can be so colorful.
Well, the giant gorilla climbing it and then being shot down was kind of a strange occurence.
The car service had to use a crowbar to open his car?Come on now,it’s New York-a lot of folks just passing by on the sidewalk know how to break into a car a lot more gracefully than that.
Slow news day...
My thoughts too. The RF field is very strong from those TV and FM antennas atop the building.
The radio field at the base of the building is not like anything in the far field. Car remotes do use radio frequencies too.
Now humans can get much closer to the towers on top, within a few hundred feet. But no place can cars get closer than at the ground level.
Oh, I'm convinced.
really. haven't they ever heard of a lunch break?
I suspect that Leona Helmsley installed a nuclear reactor in the basement before she died.
I have one word for the car service. LOCKSMITH.
His mistake was calling in someone who does that sort of thing legally.
I think they may be on to the location of the Karl Rove Weather and Diebold machines.
Not really, I'm just practicing for when he becomes President.
wonder what they have installed recently to cause this
10-15 cars in a 50 square block area of NYC? How many cars are in NYC at any given time?
I seem to remember someone having calculated the number of ships and planes that have gone missing in the Bermuda Triangle and compared it with the number that have gone missing in the Atlantic Ocean at large. IIRC, they figured out that the Bermuda Triangle is actually safer than the whole ocean.
I would think that since 9-11 and the twin tower space gone, that the empire top would be maxed out to 110%.
Not to say that the feds wouldn’t or couldn’t override anything.
Don’t know. We need a freeper with a spectrum analyzer to risk it all and go into that city to find out!
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