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Before It’s News – by Live Free or Die
The Department of Homeland Security and 29 other agencies spent a good part of Friday afternoon searching New York for a potential terrorist threat after a concerned citizen, obviously motivated by the ‘see something say something’ program, called officials after seeing this, a replica of the submarine H.L. Hunley.
Have no fear, the owners of this replica had called New York police to let them know about their travels through the area prior to their arrival; their call was ignored by authorities, thus setting off this chain of events. The Hunley was known as the ‘secret weapon’ for the Confederacy, years ahead of its time. An excellent video report from NatGeo at the bottom of the story on this sub.
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On Friday afternoon, a New York motorist called police with a tip about a potential terror threat. Seems someone was hauling a suspicious-looking object — it resembled a torpedo — on the highways around the city.
Before long 30 agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security, were searching for this potential menace.
They should have set the terror color chart to Rebel Gray, because they were just hunting for a bunch of good ol’ boys from Summerville hauling a replica of the H.L. Hunley to Connecticut for the weekend.
“It’s pretty bad when four Confederates and a replica of the Hunley can cause all this,” says Mark Clark, general manager of the exhibit. “Maybe they were worried we were here to get them back.”
As if all that wasn’t bad enough, we’ve also learned something about the mentality of those given the task to protect us via the next few lines of the story. “Terrorists don’t use toll booths.” (That should take most names off of the terrorist watch list right away!)
That was the first clue something was not amiss. Terrorists don’t use toll booths.
Clark told New York police when the exhibit would be coming back through, gave them his license tag number. They didn’t offer an escort, but they didn’t try to set up another blockade, either.
On Monday, New York Police did not even remember the incident but said, “We get a lot of bizarre calls here.”
The upshot is the Hunley got a little publicity, and may have educated a few folks — which is the replica’s purpose.
Not to blow up New York.
LOL Good find #1. Definitely didn’t see this in our local news.
I wonder how much business Starbucks and the donut houses lost when the troops were scrambled?
The people calling in to see and say just shows how many people are on the nip. I myself would have pulled over to check it out. Probably would have helped and maybe shared a beverage.
Who’s the idiot who “saw something and said something?” Did they really think a terrorist with a bomb that big would drive it down the highway?
I hope they told him “if you see something else, keep your pie-hole shut because you’re a moron.”
Dumb is as dumb does.
Here in the UK we get malicious callers for all sorts of things the police respond like crazies to. When everything cools down the police NEVER get back to the caller who told lies and was causing trouble. Mostly the phone call is over “racism” as an excuse. It’s harassment by proxy. A form of bullying and terrorism.
Good thing they weren’t hauling replicas of “Fat Man” and “Little Boy.”
Twenty-nine agencies? Government salaries and benefits being what they are, this one idiot’s phone call had to have cost us tax slaves in the six figures, and could easily have gone over seven figures (with overtime). This is why we’re beyond broke. Our new national motto should be “We over-react, every time!”
Then again, we should take pity on these poor government morons. When you understand how the debt-based money system works and that we have reached the hockey-stick point in the need to create new money to pay the interest on old debt, any means to flood the new money into the economy, no matter how obviously idiotic, must be seized. These hapless, moronic government employees are just banker’s tools toward that end.
They were affraid Iran might get some Tech ideas from it .. Hint Hint 3D printing right here on both coasts and then their agents get in and Blockcade our harbors.. Tit Fot Tat
We are Legion
They wer affraid Iran would 3D print copies and block our harbors as a response to Sanctions.
Tit For Tat
We are Legion
If one had to make a call on the efficiency (ineptitude) of these agencies based on this one incident alone, I think it would be safe to assume that a six year old with a pop tart gun could effectively tie up at LEAST a dozen of these same agencies for an hour or two.