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Verizon Central Office Heist Spoiled By 911 Outage
Qbans writes with a link the NYTimes story on a foiled robbery attempt at a Verizon Central Office in White Plains, New York, snipping "The plan seemed simple enough. The building had been cased and the burglars knew exactly what they wanted - advanced computer circuit panels that could be sold on the black market for hundreds of thousands of dollars." Qbans points out that this story parallels a previous story on how equipment was (successfully) stolen last May. Update: 11/27 22:01 GMT by T : Reader Dave C contributes a link to coverage at the registration-free JournalNews.com.
rubbish. do you think third world countries care? the black market doesn't exist in US for such products but in africa, asia and some parts of europe.
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Hey moron! T-Mobile is owned by Verizon.
"The police are working with the F.B.I. and the Department of Homeland Security on the case. Terrorism has been ruled out as a possible motive."
at least it wasn't terrorists. i mean oh my fucking god what if it was terrorists taking out our 911 system. i mean the cruelty, given that they flew airplanes into some big ugly buildings of ours killing oh like 3000 people on 9/11. i mean, it's not like we haven't killed hundreds of thousands of people "for" it by now.
thank god, tom ridge was on the case, and made sure it wasn't terrorists. thank fucking god.
the real question is, how is the case any different if it was terrorists? why should it be? besides the fact they've lost all legal rights according to ashcroft et. al.?