6/5/2004: Strange cassettes found in downtown Philly

[elSicomoro]

Originally posted by Beestie
New York was an attempt to bring the world economy to a grinding halt. Washington was an attempt to decapitate the world's lone superpower. Philly is the cheesesteak capital of Planet Earth.

They hate us for our food...the fucks!

[wolf]

It's a mercy terrorist attack. They don't want Philadelphia to have to suffer the shame of another sports defeat when victory is assured.

[Griff]

Thanks for the morning laugh guys!

[bjlhct]

Worry *might* be reasonable. At least translate the tapes!

Why would Philly be targeted? The only reason you would target something right between two large, important cities would be...if you were going to set off a big nuke.

Why would someone tape tapes to a phone pole? Either as a prank, or to try to cause fear, or because the person knew about a terrorist plot and didn't want to come to police because they thought they would be arrested and interrogated, worried about being traced through a phone tip, just generally paranoid, and had to be anonymous to not be killed by the others in on the conspiracy.

[SteveDallas]

Originally posted by bjlhct
Why would Philly be targeted? The only reason you would target something right between two large, important cities would be...if you were going to set off a big nuke.

Or you might also feel that Philadelphia is less well-defended than Washington or New York.

[wolf]

Hey, we may be insignificant for a lotta reasons, but this IS the cradle of liberty here!!

Frankly I think the next attacks will more likely be in the "heartland" ... midwest, maybe Chicago, if they go for a city, or some small town where stuff like that isn't supposed to happen.

The point of terrorism, as far as I understand it, after all, is to cause terror ... and what would be more terrifying than making it clear that small town America is not a safe place? We're fairly resilliant as far as attacks on major cities are concerned.

[Crimson Ghost]

Originally posted by chrisinhouston
The article says in part:
"Around 8:15 a.m. a patrol officer spotted an audio cassette taped to a utility pole outside the Masonic Temple "

Always knew those Masons were up to something...

HEY! Leave us Masons out of it. After the shit that happened in Long Island, we are not going to do something like this. Nor would we ever.

Consider these options:

1) A prank by a college student.

2) Some kind of study by a college student or students.

3) Some kind of test by Ridge and the Dept. of Homeland Security.

4) This one's a little weird, so hold on: A marketing ploy by WWE.
Remember that WWE bought WCW & ECW, so, in the grand scheme of things, WWE owns all 3 names.
Now, Vince McMahon knows that money was rolling in when there was competition, but now there is no competition on network TV.
There is also a rumor that WWE wants to restart ECW. ECW was from South Philly, so starting a "terrorist-type situation" would be enough to instigate ECW into reforming as the "Company That Terrorized The Terrorists". I know that some people will say that I'm out of my gourd, but if you consider the publicity stunts that have been pulled by all sorts of companies, this doesn't rank too far outside the realm of possibilities. Also, if you look at the stunts WWE/WWF/WCW/ECW/NWA/ect... have pulled in the past, it's not too hard to picture.
There was the one when Steve Austin "broke" into Brian Pillmans house, and Pillman pulled a 9mm on Steve. The screen when to snow, you heard 2 gunshots, and that was all.
Another was when Eric Bichoff (spelling?) "broke" into Vince Mcmahon's house with the intent of forcing himself onto Vince's wife, Linda.
Numerous wrestlers were in on-screen auto "accidents", some could have ended up being fatal.

Yes, I know wrestling is fake, and terrorism is real. I went into a long explaination so people will see where I'm comiing from with this idea.

Personally, I hope it's just a prank someone is pulling. Remember, kids are out of school now. Young kids with time on their hands and nothing to do. It might be just to see what would happen. The tape might be something like:
"Congratulations! You have discovered the secret message. Just write it down and send it to 'Old Pink', care of the funny farm, Chelsea".................