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Two men were arrested for allegedly attacking four power substations in Washington state on Christmas Day as part of a plan to shut down electricity and to steal from an unnamed local business.

Matthew Greenwood, 32, and Jeremy Crahan, 40, were charged on Tuesday with conspiracy to damage energy facilities. Greenwood was also charged with possession of unregistered firearms.

Can’t wait to see who these little shits really are, and which local business they wanted to rob.

I have to say that I feel somewhat relieved that they appear to be just ordinary criminals, as opposed to radical eco-terrorists, Muzzies or two of those millions of White supremacists the Gummint is always warning us about.

Early days yet, though, so I’m not making any bets.

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  2. I hope their plans were unsuccessful. I’d hate to see them teach their “skills” to other criminals.

    JQ

  3. Given that there seemed to be other similar attacks around the same time, I’m not totally sold on it being a garden variety crime.

  4. Several points;
    1, The US at this time does not have the capability to manufacture large step up / step down transformers.
    2, There are few of these transformers in reserve
    3, The ease of damaging / destroying these vital transformers is little understood.
    4, A single armor piercing bullet through the transformer tank wall into the secondary winding can and will result in a spectacular failure.
    5 At periods of high load, a single major transformer being taken down can and will result in cascading failures as it’s load is shifted to other already heavily loaded grids.
    6, A small handful of motivated marksmen can severely cripple the entire US power grid.

    1. Velocette,
      I had the same thoughts after 9/11. Many of these transmission lines go across country in somewhat remote areas. The human mind is very creative and can come up with a destructive method with common materials from a hardware store.

      JQ

  6. Simple reflex action from ‘news columnists’ Boron. They think ALL firearms
    are ‘registered’ – or they are trying to get every one else to think that way !
    Go all the way back to the old Perry Mason television series that started in
    1957 ! EVERY TIME a gun was seen / found / discovered / used / whatever,
    someone would say – Is it registered ?
    I think the ONLY firearm registration in effect, even in California around that
    time was the sales receipt you got when you purchased it !! You could walk onto
    a commercial flight carrying and no one said ANYTHING !
    There’s a LOT about ‘the old days’ that I and many others miss !

  7. Though I don’t go back to the days of Perry Mason, I was a dealer in CA for 20+years, and CA’s registration of handguns goes back to the Early Red Scare Days of the Interwar years. It was called a Dealer Report of Sale (DROS), and came with a waiting period that FTMP was 3 days, but at one point in the ’90’s was 10 days.

  8. http://www.google.com/amp/s/news.yahoo.com/amphtml/12-old-ohio-boy-dead-230017371.html
    .
    According to the press-release, another trend-follower was young Tristan.
    Apparently, his suicide was based on popular ‘tik-tok videos’.
    Apparently, “…mother does not agree with the idea of suicide…insists…her son’s death was a result of asphyxiation and…he wasn’t suicidal. She said…he was unfortunately just following an online trend.

    She said Tristan always followed new dances and trends popular on TikTok…”
    .
    After the grid collapse, will that be the end of ‘tik-tok videos’?

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