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Air Force Jams Garage Doors

Posted by kdawson on from the all-your-doors-are-belong-to-us dept.

SonicSpike points us to a Chicago Tribune article reporting that in Colorado the Air Force is jamming garage doors. In a joint U.S.-Canadian operation, they were testing communications on a frequency that would be used by first responders in the event of a threat to homeland security. From the article: "But the frequency also controls an estimated 50 million garage door openers, and hundreds of residents in the area found that theirs had suddenly stopped working... Technically, the Air Force has the right to the frequency, which it began using nearly three years ago at some bases. Signals have previously interfered with garage doors near bases in Florida, Maryland, and Pennsylvania."

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  1. Maple Street? by Average_Joe_Sixpack · · Score: 5, Funny

    This happened to me on Maple Street. Caused quite a stir and a few people wound up shot in the action ... course they were commies so no harm done.

  2. I'm okay... by jkj5301 · · Score: 4, Funny

    until I go out and find an F16 in the garage.

  3. Re:Technically??? by LifesABeach · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just a casual thought; But could someone on the Air Force staff flip the their garage door switch every time UCLA scores against USC so that the garage doors open up in a nation wide "wave"?

  4. Re:Jesus Christ- GET OUT OF YOUR SUV! by Kamineko · · Score: 4, Funny

    Jesus Christ drives an SUV?

  5. It's a rather cunning plan. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Al-qaida sleeper cells can't do much damage with their car bombs if they can't get them out of the garage.