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http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/american-flags-stolen-atop-brooklyn-bridge-cops-article-1.1875673Two high-flying American flags were surreptitiously swiped from atop the Brooklyn Bridge and mysteriously replaced early Tuesday with a pair of white banners, police said.
The substitute flags were flying by sunrise from atop the 273-foot towers on the venerable bridge despite round-the-clock NYPD security on the span.
What remained unclear hours later: who was responsible, what happened to the missing American flags and how the thieves scaled the towers without drawing any attention.
Theres no particular nexus to terrorism or politics, said John Miller, the NYPDs anti-terrorism czar. It might be some kind of art project or statement. But we are not sure what that statement is.
Historic NY
(37,449 posts)SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)2. everything sounds worse/creepier when read by a computerized voice.
Note: A Red Team OP is when professionals attempt to gain access to secure locations/information to show the people who are securing it that there are weaknesses and they are vulnerable.
TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)randome
(34,845 posts)[hr][font color="blue"][center]Everything is a satellite to some other thing.[/center][/font][hr]
cwydro
(51,308 posts)had a lot of skill to climb up there.
Looks like to me that our "Homeland Security" is seriously lacking.
Flags are one thing. How about something more sinister? Scares me.
JackRiddler
(24,979 posts)MineralMan
(146,281 posts)Took planning and ingenuity. Someone's laughing over a beer.
Texasgal
(17,042 posts)Whomever climbed up on both sides without being detected was not just a typical prankster.
MineralMan
(146,281 posts)Switching flags harms nobody. As for the security, there are always lapses. Observation finds those. The rest is just doing it.
As an inveterate prankster in my day, this would have been within my capabilities, for sure.
Texasgal
(17,042 posts)Just my opinion.
MineralMan
(146,281 posts)makes for excellent publicity. As I said, someone is laughing over a beer.
joshcryer
(62,269 posts)Hopefully someone releases something soon.
The security state being that US freedom is waving a white flag.
And it doesn't even stop people from doing what they did.
ohheckyeah
(9,314 posts)Sure sounds like it.