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Shootings at power substations cause North Carolina outages

34 points by cwwc 4y ago

wereallterrrist 4y ago
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- bombcar 4y ago
  I can provide one: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/in-north-carolina-vandals-leave-thousands-in-the-dark/ar-AA14TVCR https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/in-north-carolina-vandals-... > (Reuters) -Residents of a central North Carolina county faced a second night of freezing weather without power on Sunday after vandals opened fire on two electric substations in what authorities called a "targeted attack." > A motive for the Saturday night damage spree wasn't clear, said Moore County Sheriff Ronnie Fields. Due to outages, schools will be closed Monday and potentially longer. Sunday church services and a well-known golf resort were disrupted. > … Fields dismissed online rumors that the incident was connected to a drag show.
Trouble_007 4y ago
FYI: Emergency declared and curfew imposed following North Carolina power grid attack [ 5 hours ago - 215 comments ] : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33859220 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33859220
sacnoradhq 4y ago
Werther effect. It keeps getting reported in media, crazy people copycats ensue. Stop reporting it: it goes away. It's a memetic contagion.
l3uwin 4y ago
One of the leading protesters, Emily Grace Rainey, claimed on social media that sheriff's deputies questioned her about the outages after she posted that she knew why it had occurred, WRAL reported Sunday morning. "I told them that God works in mysterious ways and is responsible for the outage," Rainey, who rose to local prominence protesting COVID-19 restrictions, wrote on Facebook. "I used the opportunity to tell them about the immoral drag show and the blasphemies screamed by its supporters." In 2021, Rainey also resigned from her position as a psychological operations officer in the Army, after the Army investigated her for leading a group of people from Moore County to the January 6 riots at the U.S. Capitol Rainey claims to be the head of the Moore County Citizens for Freedom (MCCF). The group is a "nonpartisan network of Moore County Citizens dedicated to the promotion of conservative values in Moore County, NC, through education and activism," according to its Facebook page.
- remarkEon 4y ago
  This is one of those things that will get a billion up-votes on reddit, and then the article posted two weeks later that says "well actually, this person had nothing to do with this and is kinda crazy, and we still don't know who actually did it" gets like 50. I've seen this pattern so, so often since 2016 that my null hypothesis is just always going to be that these viral stories are wrong.

34 points by cwwc 4y ago

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bombcar 4y ago
I can provide one: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/in-north-carolina-vandals-leave-thousands-in-the-dark/ar-AA14TVCR https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/in-north-carolina-vandals-... > (Reuters) -Residents of a central North Carolina county faced a second night of freezing weather without power on Sunday after vandals opened fire on two electric substations in what authorities called a "targeted attack." > A motive for the Saturday night damage spree wasn't clear, said Moore County Sheriff Ronnie Fields. Due to outages, schools will be closed Monday and potentially longer. Sunday church services and a well-known golf resort were disrupted. > … Fields dismissed online rumors that the incident was connected to a drag show.

FYI: Emergency declared and curfew imposed following North Carolina power grid attack [ 5 hours ago - 215 comments ] : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33859220 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33859220

sacnoradhq 4y ago

Werther effect. It keeps getting reported in media, crazy people copycats ensue. Stop reporting it: it goes away. It's a memetic contagion.

l3uwin 4y ago

One of the leading protesters, Emily Grace Rainey, claimed on social media that sheriff's deputies questioned her about the outages after she posted that she knew why it had occurred, WRAL reported Sunday morning. "I told them that God works in mysterious ways and is responsible for the outage," Rainey, who rose to local prominence protesting COVID-19 restrictions, wrote on Facebook. "I used the opportunity to tell them about the immoral drag show and the blasphemies screamed by its supporters." In 2021, Rainey also resigned from her position as a psychological operations officer in the Army, after the Army investigated her for leading a group of people from Moore County to the January 6 riots at the U.S. Capitol Rainey claims to be the head of the Moore County Citizens for Freedom (MCCF). The group is a "nonpartisan network of Moore County Citizens dedicated to the promotion of conservative values in Moore County, NC, through education and activism," according to its Facebook page.

remarkEon 4y ago
This is one of those things that will get a billion up-votes on reddit, and then the article posted two weeks later that says "well actually, this person had nothing to do with this and is kinda crazy, and we still don't know who actually did it" gets like 50. I've seen this pattern so, so often since 2016 that my null hypothesis is just always going to be that these viral stories are wrong.