Hippies attacking their own

[ray1970]

So, it seems a group of people broke into several secure facilities a few days ago and shut off all of the natural gas to the city of Aspen.

I say a group of people because several facilities hit at the same time in what had to be an intentional and deliberate act. At one of the facilities the words ?Earth First ? were written on a pipe.

Reading some comments about the incident it seems there are quite a few residents who are mad at the company that supplies their community with natural gas making comments to how regardless of who caused the outage or why that they blame the gas company for the outage. At least there were a few who felt shutting off vital infrastructure to a city through a deliberate act is likely an act of domestic terrorism. The local sheriff is pretty much blowing the whole thing off as just an act of vandalism but I believe the FBI is getting involved now.

I do take some joy in the fact that a group of tree huggers intentionally screwed with a town full of tree huggers.

https://www.aspentimes.com/news/investigation-continues-into-aspen-area-natural-gas-outage-which-could-last-into-tuesday/

[OldFogey]

Karma?

[earplug]

Could be a false flag attack so the city of Aspen reduces the access and controls the area.

[JohnnyDrama]

I can understand the idea of "Hippies attacking hippies" but I think the authentic hippies were priced out of Aspen 30 years ago (at least). Folks who live there now don't even pretend.

[blaster]

[ray1970]

Eh. Anyone who lives in the mountains is pretty much still a hippie- no matter how rich they are.

[Great-Kazoo]

Eh. Anyone who lives in the mountains is pretty much still a hippie- no matter how rich they are.

AND they have the lease vehicles, to prove it.

[BladesNBarrels]

Eh. Anyone who lives in the mountains is pretty much still a hippie- no matter how rich they are.

Oxymoron!

https://i.imgur.com/hpEasl5.jpg

[BushMasterBoy]

Sabotaging a communities utility during a pandemic. Jail cell with open window and no heat. Am I being cruel?

[.455_Hunter]

Eh. Anyone who lives in the mountains is pretty much still a hippie- no matter how rich they are.

That's an interesting viewpoint.

[GilpinGuy]

That's an interesting viewpoint.

I thought so as well.

[BushMasterBoy]

Somebody wanted an increase in firewood sales? No heat, that is one way to get her in your bed. I'm just wondering motive? Drug induced psychosis? Death wish? I hope they are apprehended soon.

[TFOGGER]

I can understand the idea of "Hippies attacking hippies" but I think the authentic hippies were priced out of Aspen 30 years ago (at least). Folks who live there now don't even pretend.

[blaster]

Anybody who has been to Boulder knows what a "trust fund hippy" is. The cognitive dissonance generated by those idiots should be painful.

[ray1970]

.455_hunter and GilpinGuy, do you guys even bathe?

Dirty hippies.





(I would insert a funny smilie but have never figured that out on my phone. I?m sure you guys know I?m just jerking your chains a little.)

[Justin]

Oxymoron!

https://i.imgur.com/hpEasl5.jpg

Thanks. I can smell the patchouli through my monitor.

[Irving]

Hemp chains...

[Hummer]

Naaa, had to be a gang of plumbers trying to drum up business from pipes freezing all over the valley. Think of $$$$ to be made at all those $10 million dollar homes....

[BPTactical]

Sabotaging a communities utility during a pandemic. Jail cell with open window and no heat. Am I being cruel?

I like the cut of your Jibe

[Irving]

Sabotaging a communities utility during a pandemic. Jail cell with open window and no heat. Am I being cruel?

I'd climb out of the window and leave.

[JohnnyDrama]

Anybody who has been to Boulder knows what a "trust fund hippy" is. The cognitive dissonance generated by those idiots should be painful.

We called them "Trustafarians" in Telluride.

[TRnCO]

Is it safe to assume that who ever did this currently lives "off grid"? I mean after all, surely who ever did this didn't go back home to a house with a thermostat set at 70 degrees with the main heating coming from a "gas" fired furnace. would they?

Almost like someone driving an all electric vehicle claiming that they are saving the earth by only using green energy, without realizing where the power comes from when they plug in and charge up their ride.

[GilpinGuy]

.455_hunter and GilpinGuy, do you guys even bathe?

Dirty hippies.





(I would insert a funny smilie but have never figured that out on my phone. I?m sure you guys know I?m just jerking your chains a little.)

[ROFL1] Only on my birthday.

[Great-Kazoo]

I'd climb out of the window and leave.

So would the charge be, fleeing the flu. Or, an opening took?

[BushMasterBoy]

Person of interest in link below. White male, grey hair, blue eyes and at least 160lbs. Sounds like the guy from Nashville.

https://www.kktv.com/2020/12/29/thousands-of-colorado-residents-without-gas-following-vandalism-in-aspen/

[ray1970]

Person of interest in link below. White male, grey hair, blue eyes and at least 160lbs. Sounds like the guy from Nashville.

https://www.kktv.com/2020/12/29/thousands-of-colorado-residents-without-gas-following-vandalism-in-aspen/

?At the time the photo was taken he was wearing high-end clothing and carrying a computer bag.?

Yep. Sounds like your typical hippie with their expensive clothes and electronic devices. I didn?t notice if he was carrying some sort of mocha latte cappuccino drink in his other hand.

[FoxtArt]

Maybe infrastructure attacks will be the new "mass shooting" for shitheads. Kind of makes me wonder what else hasn't been reported (such as the fiber hit). Not that I assume they are related - they probably aren't, but who knows. In any event, shitheads aren't terribly creative until someone says "this is the way", and now this seems like it may be the trendy UGG boots of infamy for 2021.

[ray1970]

Maybe infrastructure attacks will be the new "mass shooting" for shitheads.

Maybe. Especially if the trend is set early that these types of events aren?t seen as acts of domestic terrorism but rather just common vandalism.

I?ve always felt that if you really wanted to cripple a developed nation that shutting down their infrastructure or commerce would be the way to do it. People get cranky enough if their internet is down for thirty minutes or their electricity goes out for a couple of hours. Can you imagine the shit show that would ensue in a major metropolitan area if there was no electricity, running water, phone service, internet, working sewage, etc. for even just a few weeks or months?

The grocery stores along the front range were cleared out in a day or two when the Covid stuff started. Imagine how difficult it would be for them to restock with no computers, phones, internet or electricity.

I know people existed in the past without modern amenities and infrastructure but today society has become reliant on these things to survive. It would truly be a SHTF scenario in a rather short time if everything suddenly went away for an indeterminate amount of time.

[rondog]

I can tell you that it's common for fiber optic cables to transition from underground to aerial, and they'll come up out of the ground and run up the side of a utility pole to become aerial. If some asshole with a machete knows what they look like, he can cause havoc with one whack.