Warning NYC! But Don't Panic

orangeradiation.jpgLocal news stations are reporting late this evening that an unverified radiological threat was made against New York City sometime Friday. The city's alert level remains at the long-standing orange level though. WNBC passes along a statement from the NYPD:

"While the threat remains unverified, our counterterrorism posture, which is reconfigured daily based on intelligence from around the world, has been modified to include increased deployment of radiological sensors, including vehicle, marine and helicopter-mounted, as well as those carried by NYPD personnel."

Vehicle checkpoints have been established around the city, concentrating on downtown and from certain jurisdictions. Deputy Commissioner Paul J. Browne reportedly stressed that the moves were strictly precautionary and that no threat had been verified. So if you notice an increased level of police, military, and air or marine activity around the city tonight, don't become too concerned. It's just standard precautions.

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As Reuters reported "New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said the police had received the threat from the Internet but stressed there was no reason to believe this threat was any different from countless others since the September 11 attacks."

Except for the

"...increased...deployment of radiological sensors on vehicles, boats and helicopters and...vehicle checkpoints in lower Manhattan and at bridges and tunnels"

Gee...do that do that with every unsubstantiated threat? Did I miss something?

Also, back up your data! - an Electromagnetic Pulse might erase your porn.

Thanks #2 - it's taken me years to amass my ebony porn collection!

BTW, do we have any other Asians here with an ebony fetish?

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Just kidding #3 - cobalt bombs ("Radiological Dispersal Devices" for you nerds) don't emit EMP.

I'd be more afraid of stampeedeing sheeple than radiation.

I googled some terror porn (as opposed to torture-porn or sex-porn, for example. Check it out!:

"Footage of surveillance of landmark New York buildings was found taped at the end of the film Die Hard 3."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/05/04/nterror04.xml

http://www.fas.org/faspir/2002/v55n2/ny-co.htm

In one accident in Brazil in 1988 there were some scavengers that got ahold of a Cesium 137 source from a medical facility, an abandoned medical facility, and they actually brought the stuff home and spread it on their bodies and distributed it to their family and friends because it looked interesting. It actually glowed blue. About 250 people were exposed to it. Of those people, only four actually died from radiation exposure.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/terrorism/jan-june02/dirtybomb_6-10.html

Where are the checkpoints? all the news show only one. the one on Varick, south of Canal.

I noticed a portable air monitor, complete with human handler, this morning in the Times Square subway station. It was next to the bathroom.

Oh, my God! No terrorist threats since GeorgieBoy got reelected... and the Iowa straw poll is coming up. Better stir things up & get the people all afraid... and let's put it in New York to help our big ass-kisser, Rudy.

Terror! America-haters! Furriners! Terror! America-haters! Furriners! Terror! America-haters! Furriners!

^^^^^ be very afraid (for no good reason) ^^^^^^

Keeps the cops earning overtime money, and keeps Federal funds coming in as long as they find ways to spend it. And it keeps people indoors and afraid - the better not to question the wasteful and war-mongering ways of our government. And provides a cheap source of news fodder for the local TV stations - so they don't have to work to report real news.

Phony terror scares are win-win for everyone! Except you and I.

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