Discussion for article #225377
Maybe someone bought it.
Wishfull thinking.
Why are there white flags atop the Brooklyn Bridge?
I give up.
Its very clever marketing for a laundry detergent.
āAuthorities investigating how the white flags got thereā
My guess is, someone climbed up there and replaced them.
Just a guess though.
The amount of consternation this causes will be a hoot.
Maybe Chris Christie has given up his Presidential aspirations and decided to announce it on one of his favorite things - a bridge.
Isnāt this like waking up to find your prize winning horseās head in your bed, and your bedclothes drenched in blood. Is it time for NYC to let out a collective scream?
The more important question is how these flags were replaced without direct observation. If you can place flags you can place plastic explosives.
What did the Wicked Witch of the West write in the sky: Surrender Dorothy? Have terrorists ever revealed an obsession with NYC before, in living memory?
Well, I guess Brooklyn finally gave up.
It must have been the surrender monkeysā¦
Because somebody could.
Reminds of a late-70s prank at Rice U. where the multi-ton likeness of Wm Marsh Rice was pivoted 180Ā° overnight to face east, in the middle of an open air, grassy commons area-- the size of a football field.
With no evidence of use of heavy-machinery thought necessary.
Leave it to Rice U engineering students-- to devise a portable, lightweight crane-like device with pulley system-- to lift the huge statue an inch from itsā base-- allowing it to be rotated by hand.
University officials were amazed-- an amnesty was offered and accepted.
Wm Marsh Riceās memorial was again rotated using the apparatus-- facing it west once more.
Wouldnāt be surprised if the flags are just a prank.
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In the name of having an alternative theory, Iāll guess that the American flags were treated with extremely strong bleach.
Or Manhattan. The Ghost of Shelby Foote will come down to explain how the Battle of the Hipsters was won.
āIf you can place flags you can place plastic explosives.ā
Well, itās not really that simple. White flags are a lot easier to find and move around.
Of course, thereās little point in putting plastic explosives at the very top of the bridge. Not unless you want to minimize the impact.
What this incident does expose is how much our ācounter-terrorismā money is spent on little more than theater. Our counter-terrorism āexpertsā are little more than people who talk tough and demand draconian powers. Thereās very little they can do in an open society to prevent acts like this.
Weāve surrendered our democracy to fascism. Nice going America.
Itās not that they would place explosives at the top of the bridge. They are implying a āsurrender nowā message they were able to deploy surreptitiously, indicating that if they could do that, they could easily plant explosives at the foundations without observation.
Aliens did it. I see this sort of thing all the time on Science related TV channelsā¦ or maybe it was Nostradamus. Or Big Footā¦ All I know is that it was not someone wanting to make a silly statement.
I suppose you are ruling out a secret code from Spiderman.
Is this how Grand Fenwick wins the war?