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What’s a cat bomb?
A bomb with a cat in it. Use your noggin
Notes: Put bomb in cute cat. Castro is known to pat strays three times. Use that as the trigger.
You can't prove I'm wrong: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_Kitty
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AT&T only. But unclear if that would be effected, that was a wireline C.O., not sure if they also had their wireless switching there, sometimes the wireless and wireline are in different buildings.
There is fiber to thst building as well. I'm in Cumberland County right now and the towers are down. Wi-Fi calling only. Also no 911 service, which astounds me until I remember it's the government running it. Imagine an emergency response system so fragile cutting power to one building fucks it for half a state? My one man company has better disaster tolerance than the 911 system? Insane.
A lot of the fiber from the cell towers to the cell switching offices is supplied by the local telco, in this case AT&T. I wonder if the other wireless carriers are effected?
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While I'm only speculating, it could be quite possible that whoever may have wished to damage or destroy the AT&T building, seriously underestimated what these kind of buildings can take (essentially being disguised bunkers). This certainly wasn't a small explosion, from the looks of it. But taking out a bunker .. unless you have access to weapons specially build for that purpose, good luck. That AT&T still went down…
yeah - as I commented elsewhere - mcveigh did a whole lot more damage with presumably less explosive (van vs. rv) This really sounds like people playing with stuff they have no understanding of.
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Anecdote: In my experience, a small but sizeable number of homes in suburban areas that are still outside the city enough to be affected by weather-related power outages every several months have whole-home generators connected to city natural gas lines. Growing up in one of these areas, there was the occasional power outage (once a year or so at most) but I can't recall any gas line outages. Those who had whole-home…
I'm more surprised that Nashville has city gas. It's not a very cold climate. It almost never even snows there.
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> Was the invasion of Iraq terrorism? What about the Boston tea party? Yes, pretty clearly. Just because you might agree doesn't diminish it. After all, a terrorist is just a freedom fighter depending on the observer. edit: Instead of downvotes because you disagree, why not point out the error in my thinking?
Sorry just to clarify, why would the Boston tea party be terrorists in some eyes? Did they attack civilians for political reasons?
This article doesn't make this so explicit, but ATT infrastructure appears to be the intentional target of the bombing. You can see the building in the helicopter shot at the top of the NYTimes article on the story: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/25/us/nashville-explosion.ht... Obviously a telecommunications/switch hub, with it being a large windowless building in a downtown core. The other thing that's particularly…
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> Was the invasion of Iraq terrorism? What about the Boston tea party? Yes, pretty clearly. Just because you might agree doesn't diminish it. After all, a terrorist is just a freedom fighter depending on the observer. edit: Instead of downvotes because you disagree, why not point out the error in my thinking?
Sorry just to clarify, why would the Boston tea party be terrorists in some eyes? Did they attack civilians for political reasons?
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Interesting things to consider. 1) I heard something about "fake reports" about gunshots. But maybe the perp shot off some guns just to get the cops to show up? 2) This woman stuck around for 15 minutes or a half hour while this thing was saying "you need to evacuate, this has a bomb"??? 3) This woman recalls a male voice but the news played a female voice. This goes to show how bad our memories are!
There were gunshots sounds but we're not sure if it was audio from the RV or actual gun shots
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This makes for such a fascinating story. Supervillain type stuff. Except fortunately in this case a supervillian with some sort of code of ethics.
Let's not idolize crazy. Fascinating, yes. But supervillains have redeeming qualities. There's nothing redeeming about a car bomb.
But it seems this person or group of people took multiple measures (Christmas morning, gun shot sounds, verbal notice of intention) to make sure civilians had notice and time to get to a safe distance.
Just seems a bit odd and unprecedented that an act like this was carried out with explicit intent to minimize civilian harm and casualties.
Will be interesting to hear more about what actually happened, by whom, and their motives, if any of this ever becomes known.
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I'm not sure if it's only anti government militia. Another possibility could be a heist/digital raid and that this bombing was there to prevent offsite backups of a secure data facility. Nonetheless this seems too coordinated and well executed to be some random hate group, so I agree with you there. Especially with the evacuation messages. Anybody know if e.g. the Nexus group or similar SSAE data centers had some iss…
Militias are not (all) hate groups.