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Friday, October 30, 2015

What the heck?

Investigators offer reward after mysterious airborne object causes $3M business fire

Investigators are seeking the public's help solving a baffling fire that destroyed a telecommunications testing business Sunday, causing millions of dollars in damage. . .

Nemko, at 1940 W. Alexander St. (2420 South), burned to the ground several hours after a brightly burning object slowly descended onto its roof around 9:37 p.m. Saturday, fire officials said. The ATF believes the fire caused about $3 million in damage to expensive equipment, down from an estimate of $11 million earlier this week.

The object was on the roof for about five hours before it ignited a fire that was reported around 2:30 a.m., said ATF spokeswoman Lisa Meiman. The object was spherical in shape, but it's difficult to determine from surveillance exactly how big it was, Meiman said.

The object, which couldn't be found in the fire's wreckage, reportedly showed signs of hitting wind resistance on the way down. Meiman said there aren't any positive indications it was a drone. "It was definitely an idea that was tossed around, (but) the wind resistance didn’t make us think and didn’t make us conclude (it was a) drone," she said. "We’re not ruling it out, but we really can’t conclusively say right now. It’s just an odd movement for a drone to be making."

8 comments:

Anonymous said...: Laugh-in, welcome to 3rd gen warfare, 4th will be along shortly. Never underestimate a free persons brain. With the advent of GPS, modern electronics, and prolific hardware stores, a mind fueled via oppression is a wonderful and very dangerous thing. Guns are but fodder/toys for the true folks to worry about, now what was that old saying. Something about necessity being the mother of invention, like Jack Nicholson said once, you ain't seen nutun yet. Exporting skill sets is great, but a bitch when it comes home to dance.; October 30, 2015 at 5:46 AM
PO'd American said...: Let's hope that forensics can prove that the source of the fire and the remains on the roof are those of that gas bag Owl Gore.; October 30, 2015 at 6:23 AM
Anonymous said...: Ball lightning.; October 30, 2015 at 6:27 AM
1911A1 said...: MkVIII Rocket flare...; October 30, 2015 at 10:09 AM
Anonymous said...: Sounds like one of the hot air balloons we used to make as kids. Drape a dry cleaner bag over a kite frame, tape a paper cup with a candle in it in the bottom and off you go.; October 30, 2015 at 10:47 AM
Longbow said...: SOunds like someone was playing with a parachute flare.; October 30, 2015 at 12:49 PM
Chiu ChunLing said...: I'm guessing a spent model rocket that went off course. Probably the people doing it were up to something funny, otherwise painting the parachute black and failing to recover the rocket body doesn't make perfect sense. But I doubt they intended to set a fire, that was just an unfortunate consequence.; October 30, 2015 at 12:54 PM
0007 said...: Had a flare fired from an aircraft flare pistol drop short on to and into a neighbor's screen patio one noisy New Years Eve. Lots of running and fire dancing ensued and the only real damage was a 37mm hole melted through the top screen.; October 31, 2015 at 12:24 AM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

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