North Carolina power substations taken out by gunfire 16

[FacEngrPE]

https://www.foxnews.com/us/north-carolina-sheriff-says-intentional-vandalism-substations-caused-power-outages-40k-customers[/URL]]A North Carolina sheriff and power company official said "intentional vandalism" at substations has caused outages for about 40,000 customers expected to last longer than 24 hours

NC county announces curfew as nearly 40,000 customers remain without power after 2 substations damaged by gunfire; Tina Burnside, By Nicole Grether, Gloria Pazmino and Tina Burnside, CNN Updated 6:12 PM EST, Sun December 4, 2022

Current outages link

https://www.readync.gov/stay-informed/power-outages

and

https://outagemaps.duke-energy.com/#/current-outages/ncsc

Moore County Sheriff's Office Dec 4

 

[dik]

I got my first 22 when I was about 11... and never went looking for switchyards. Maybe a different time period.

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[JohnRBaker]

I got my first 22 when I was nine years old, and I still have it, an Iver Johnson, single-shot safety rifle (the kind the Boy Scouts used when you got your Marksmanship Merit Badge at summer camp), manufactured sometime between 1931 and 1955 (there was no serial number, just the patent number). From the best that I can determine, it's worth around $175-$285 (from several online sites which sell antique firearms). I think my father paid something like $12 for it back in 1956.

John R. Baker, P.E. (ret)
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[dik]

mine was a Cooey Model 75... single shot with a 'pull back' bolt. A couple of years later, I added a Weaver B6 scope to it... likely 3x the cost of the rifle... I had 3 paper routes back then...

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[1503-44]

No paper routes any more. Idle hands ...

Einstein gave the same test to students every year. When asked why he would do something like that, "Because the answers had changed."

 

[byrdj]

rifles, shotguns and "saturday night specials" came and went even as preteen.

HOWEVER, a Christmas gift of High Standard Double Nine and a Paladin Holster / Dropped belt will be with till it is pried from my cold dead hand.

I wish I knew the number of rounds have been through it

 

[JohnRBaker]

My father had a High Standard Double Nine that he bought after he sold his Colt 45 automatic, as he said he couldn't afford the ammo any more (this was back in the late 60's). If I recall correctly, it looked like this one:

While all of his long guns went to his three sons, he gave the pistol to my sister. Not sure if she still has it.

John R. Baker, P.E. (ret)
Irvine, CA
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[dik]

My pride and joy was a Walther single shot 22 target rifle which I picked up when I was 14 or 15... It cost just a little over $150 which was a bunch of money back then... I was out at a range 3 nights a week.

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[FacEngrPE]

Another North Carolina electrical substation damaged by gunfire 1/18/2023 6:39 PM
Copycat or too much time on someones hands?
There was another incident on Nov. 11, when a Carteret-Craven Electric Cooperative station in Maysville, North Carolina, was vandalized, causing 12,000 customers to go without power.
3 events in North Carolina impacting 4 substations, and over 58,000 customers in the past 3 months.

 

[cranky108]

If you don't allow people to be kids when they are young, they become kids when they are older.
Thus we have taken gun training away from kids, and the learning comes later, without the adult supervision.

 

[FacEngrPE]

cranky108 - If I could I would give you 5 stars for your post.

 

[1503-44]

Video games are more exciting than a bullseye target.

Einstein gave the same test to students every year. When asked why he would do something like that, "Because the answers had changed."

 

[dik]

I'm not so sure... there's a certain pleasure in putting 100 handloads into paper...

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So strange to see the singularity approaching while the entire planet is rapidly turning into a hellscape. -John Coates

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[1503-44]

Well that doesn't sound very satisfying.

Einstein gave the same test to students every year. When asked why he would do something like that, "Because the answers had changed."

 

[cranky108]

But seeing the can jump, when you hit it, and the sound of the can screaming. That can be exciting.

At one time Popular Mechanics (from my recollection) had an article on building your own indoor shooting range.
Part of it consisted of reloading shells with wax bullets.

 

[SnTMan]

Wax bullets, now there is some expansion

The problem with sloppy work is that the supply FAR EXCEEDS the demand

 

[Alistair_Heaton]

i never touched a gun until 17

then a extremely violent swearing Falkland's vet educated me...

there was only 2 broke noses and 5 sets of sore balls after the 1st training session with SLR's with 30 16-19 year olds.

I don't think there was any repeat offenders but none of us had touched a weapon before and the next week i was laying and firing a 105 light gun.

By far the most lethal thing i was ever given in the british army was a 4 tonner bedford lorry.

 

[zeusfaber]

presumably without dedicated weapon stowage. I was introduced to these in a later generation of vehicle by somebody who explained, with a straight face, how failing to stow an SA-80 properly might turn it into a lethal weapon if the truck had an accident.

A.

 

[Alistair_Heaton]

they had these stupid brackets on the rear shelf which nobody ever used. And REME units used to take out so some one could sleep on it.

The other one I couldn't understand was xraying the gats at Brize. Only thing we could think of was smuggling of hex somehow. Although years later an ex mover said on the SA80 there was a void in the stock and people used to keep a couple of rounds in it.

 

[JohnRBaker]

At least this time the FBI got there first, but then these people were on the grid for much more that simply wanting to disrupt the power, they were looking to actually bring harm to a certain segment of the local population:

Neo-Nazi leader among 2 arrested in plot to attack Baltimore's power grid, feds say

The suspects, Brandon Russell and Sarah Clendaniel, took steps to shoot multiple electrical substations in the Baltimore area in an attempt to “completely destroy this whole city,” prosecutors said.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new...lanning-attack-baltimore-power-grid-rcna69324

An excerpt from the above item:

The FBI captured two people, one a nationally known neo-Nazi leader, before they could launch an attack on Baltimore's power grid that had the potential to "completely destroy this whole city," authorities said Monday.

The suspects, Brandon Russell and Sarah Clendaniel, were taken into custody last week, in Florida and Maryland, respectively, officials said.

Federal authorities described the alleged plot as “racially or ethnically motivated.” More than 61% of Baltimore residents are Black.

Russell, 27, is a founder of the Atomwaffen Division, a neo-Nazi group bent on "ushering in the collapse of civilization," according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. The group admires Charles Manson and supports "the idea of lone wolf violence," according to the Anti-Defamation League.

John R. Baker, P.E. (ret)
Irvine, CA
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[TugboatEng]

I thought "ushering in the collapse of civilization", anarchy, was a left winged ideology.