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Planet Fitness Evacuated After WiFi Network Named 'Remote Detonator' Causes Scare (windsorstar.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Windsor Star: A Michigan gym patron looking for a Wi-Fi connection found one named "remote detonator," prompting an evacuation and precautionary search of the facility by a bomb-sniffing dog. The Saginaw News reports nothing was found in the search Sunday at Planet Fitness in Saginaw Township, about 85 miles (140 kilometers) northwest of Detroit. Saginaw Township police Chief Donald Pussehl says the patron brought the Wi-Fi connection's name to the attention of a manager, who evacuated the building and called police. The gym was closed for about three hours as police responded. Pussehl says there's "no crime or threat," so no charges are expected. He notes people often have odd names for WiFi connections. Planet Fitness says the manager was following company procedure for when there's suspicion about a safety issue.
What's the craziest name for a WiFI network that you have used or seen?
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back in his middle school days, my son named ours: Global Thermonuclear War from something he saw. gaming privileges lost after that.
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now any wifi will trun on the lunk alarm
Hypersensitive much? Better than the guy advertising blowies in the sauna, isn't it?
If you over react to every non-incident the cost of reacting exceeds the damage of all the real incidents combined. I've got no idea what you people think "remote detonator" is actually going to do- but there is zero threat here and given the cops apparently agree you need to learn to relax. And cops *ALWAYS* over react.
I hope the pranksters don't learn about the ESP8266. I think those things only cost a few bucks each.
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Someone got Trolled HARD on this! I wonder how much money they lost looking for this Non-Criminal? LMMFAO!
The SSID "Valley Lodge" doesn't get any more frightening...
I called mine "Flowers By Irene".
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People are so paranoid these days its ridiculous. Paranoid over germs, the result they created super germs. Paranoid over war, they created super weapons. Children brought up completely shielded from reality that cant cope in the real world... We are our own worst nightmare.
drive around central d.c. or midtown manhattan with wifi network names like that.. you wouldn't even survive to see whether or not there was no charges filed.
Better than Deflowering Irene.
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I'm cheered by Chief Pussehl's reaction. No SWAT team, no one got shot or arrested, he didn't call for new laws, he didn't even say it was a bad idea to call your wifi "Remote Detonator".
That thing will first verify that it is paired with approved explosives, which will never happen because it requires gigabit internet to do so, the authentication servers are down, and the explosives you bought need a firmware upgrade, which isn't available because you bought them last week and their long term support lasts 5 days.
It can still show you ads though.
There wasn't 'abomb' network in range.
My mobile hotspot SSID is, "ERR:Buf overrun; restart WiFi".
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! wait wait... gotta catch my breath... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Whoever the person who did this is, they win! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
What next, evacuating an entire shopping mall because someone wrote "Bomb" on a sticky note and slapped it on a garbage can?
Pussehl says there's "no crime or threat," so no charges are expected.
Planet Fitness *is* a "Judgement Free Zone". :-)
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
This is comedy gold! I never get tired of laughing at the stupidly fearful people seeing terrorists around every corner. So fucking stupid!
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...their bagels and pizza.
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People are so paranoid these days its ridiculous.
I hear there's this network effect where due to popularity an overwhelming amount of hits causes a service denial. But that's just a rumor, and could never happen to anyone.
Now leave a rock in one of their gyms, with the words "Remote Detonator" scrawled on it, and see how many people panic.
So I guess my router connection named "FBI Surveillance Van 3" is right out?
One of my neighbors mentioned it; didn't have the heart to tell him it was me :-)
All those poor sods on the treadmills couldn't get away
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Actual headline should be: "Decades Later, We're Still Underestimating the Enemy"
This reaction implies law enforcement and citizens think terrorists will stamp "TNT" on their bombs, run around in unusual clothes, attack in the same way they did last time, and name their detonators "remote detonator".
The truth is terrorists are way smarter than that. When doing the act, they will blend in. I'd feel much safer if everyone was ready for that.
> search of the facility by a bomb-sniffing dog.
They called in the wrong sniffers. https://wigle.net/
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They won with the passage of the Homeland Security Act after 9/11. That was victory. That was complete and utter victory. The terrorists have won.
So the retard that thought it was funny to troll a bomb threat gets away without even a slap on the wrist?
Its a scary world where anyone anywhere can be psycho enough to commit some kind of terrorist act.
And its worse when something like this is nothing but a joke.
Grow up, trolling this crap isn't funny.