a $50 cordless grinder with a cut off disc can take down any tower by hitting the guide wires or just one anchor point. USUALLY there is barbed wire fencing around them to keep the riff-raff out but I am seeing older radio towers from the 60's and 70's not being kept up out here in the country, with dead trees laying on broken fencing, etc. The big AM transmitter station (used to be an actual station, now vacant and just the transmitter and tower) down the road from me is like that, you can walk right up to it from the road...And it has a dozen cell antennas mounted on it.

 

I know some "good 'ol boys" who decided to make a quick buck by selling scrap. The scrap was a cell tower. That they cut down.

 

We have one large water tower a few miles from me, it is literally festooned with electronics slapped on it. It looks like a 1960's model car kit that some kid glued all the parts from the kit all over it.

 

Recon by fire...

I bet they sat in overwatch nearby, watching and listening to various agency/news response times and such...

This is one of the main tenants in fomenting havoc upon a citizenry/population, kill comms, lucky it was just one tower..

Now these agencies, may be on digi modes, but they sure as hell are gonna be on analog for a spell me thinks.

This is why folks need multi faceted ability to gather info and plot events....

Obviously, multiple way to communicate..

If this happend here, or i lived there, i could fire up various commo gear, or just fire up Bivvy stick, sat based, and text folks, or worst case, fire up sat phone....

options....

 

Can Bivy sticks communicate with other bivy sticks and bypass cell networks?

 

Speaking of water towers, not far from here two thugs climbed a tower and crapped in it. That cost time and money.

Much of our everyday life is dependent on people being decent. Look at the constant barrage of electronic viruses. No gain to the ones putting them out there, just vicious.

Cell towers, substations, water plants, train tracks, the list is long.

 

Speaking of water towers, not far from here two thugs climbed a tower and crapped in it. That cost time and money.

Much of our everyday life is dependent on people being decent. Look at the constant barrage of electronic viruses. No gain to the ones putting them out there, just vicious.

Cell towers, substations, water plants, train tracks, the list is long.

An nth power upper decker...

 

Seriously...crapped in it?

How in Gods name can they just take a dump in it? Unlocked hatches? Was it the water tower from Hogans Heros?

Wow......This is one reason why we have hi end inline water filters in home/pitchers, and have water stored....

Did they ever find the turdsters?

 

It is a fairly high tower. It was by chance a person saw them on top of it. I thought there was an access port on top for workmen. My suspicion is that security was lax, was the port even locked, as in who in their right mind would do something like crap in the water? (Rhetorical question) They were caught, one of their Momma's said her baby was only being a boy. I might add some adjectives to her statement....disgusting, filthy, criminal, etc.

I do not know what consequences, if any, the perps suffered.

As I think about it, it was some time back. I know one of the persons who turned them in. Iirc, the tower had to be drained.

 

You ain't seen nothing yet - its the Monkey Woke Gang

 

Terrorism? Maybe.

Or...like 99% of these things, it's a drunken idiot, or some guy that got his phone turned off for nonpayment.

 

terrorism is the new paranoid authoritarian buzzword. Something bad happens "suspected terrorism". If you use a term like that too often it loses it's meaning, kind of like lefties calling everyone "fascist."

 

Meth heads who heard how much copper and rare earth elements are in the towers? But when the tower dropped it was too mangled up.

The photos show a typical chain link fence around the site. Easy enough to cut or climb. The wires were likely outside of the fence anyway.

I doubt terrorism hit a south central Nebraska town of 720 people.

 

This is probably Musk drumming up more sales of his sattelite based stuff.

 

Either some stoners or more likely a test by bad actors who have been slipping into our county every day, testing a bigger event. Imagine a day of darkness that goes on and on.

 

Watch our rates on cell phones go up to upgrade security.

 

There is a whole subset of phone tower/5g conspiracy groups. Every now and then they actually have a few people willing to act and damage the infrastructure.

 

Actually it could be conspiracy fact. I talked to our cable guy who told me that the top people had no idea what was installed at the top of those towers.

 

I could have been a guy fishing at Harlan County resevoir who got tired of his wife calling. Sorry dear, no coverage.

There are some interesting stories about the town that ended up flooded and underwater when they built the resevoir.

I don't see this as terrorism. The locals would recognize strange people out of place. Local methheads or dumbass kids is my guess. I bet the local sheriff knows and is hoping the feds get involved so he doesn't have to deal with them or their family....again.

 

I was searching for any updates on the story then came across this story from 3 weeks ago also taking place in Nebraska:

State Sen. Eliott Bostar of Lincoln has offered a bill that would penalize companies that have Chinese-made equipment that could pose a national security.

"Chinese-made Huawei equipment atop cell towers near U.S. military bases in rural Midwest is capable of capturing and potentially disrupting highly restricted airwaves used by the military, specifically U.S. Strategic Command, which oversees the U.S. nuclear arsenal," Bostar said.

Nebraska Legislature bill questioning China's use of cell towers to spy on U.S.

Nebraska LB63

Maybe this was more than just a vandal or domestic terrorism. Or possibly it being a local issue getting media attention made someone decided to pound a case of Natty Light and take matters into their own hands.

 

...someone decided to pound a case of Natty Light and take matters into their own hands.

Interesting posit, but.. a quick-aside: I'm stealing that. 😂

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Folks, I would Strongly (very strongly) suggest you stick to the topic and totally avoid the personal attacks .

 

Worth Echoing:


Additionally, political trolling will not be tolerated either.

Thread Cleaned up as best as we can.

 

Actually I had read where people were destroying these towers, believing them to be part of the control grid. They were destroying the towers and surveillance cameras. Some former army said they were 'kill towers.' I don't know because I'm technically illiterate. I read they're doing it in the UK too - people who call themselves "Bladerunners."

In the town we used to live in they were trying to put a cell tower right in the backyards of people. The families hired a lawyer but lost in court. I fully expect at some point that the tower installed will come down. It was a rough town.

 

you'll get idiot locals terrorist attacking some lone tower - the organized saboteur attacks by the planted underground fighters will be going after the bigger main hubs - shoot their way thru the sleepy bored security guards - blow up the computers that will put half the country out of commission for months on end .....