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[WETWRKS]

Area 51 is still off limits.

I repeat....

Area 51 is still off limits.

We now return you to your regular scheduled programming.

[Gman]

A Dutch YouTuber and his friend were arrested and jailed when they tried getting near Area 51

A Dutch YouTuber and his friend were arrested and jailed when they tried getting near Area 51

Ties Granzier, 20, and Govert Charles Wilhelmus Jacob Sweep, 21, were arrested about three miles deep into the Nevada National Security Site, the Nye County Sheriff's Office said.

The site is near Area 51, which has been the focus of conspiracy theories for decades alleging the US government keeps evidence about aliens and UFOs there. Someone recently created a Facebook event page seeking people to storm the site this Friday.

But the two men say never planned to participate in that.

"We didn't have any intention to storm it because we leave on day before the actual storming dates, and we just wanted... to go there," Sweep told CNN affiliate KTNV. They just wanted to get a good view of it, he said.

When arrested September 10, both men told deputies they could read, write and speak English and had seen the 'No Trespassing' signs at the entrance of the site. But they said they wanted to take a look at the facility, police said.

Granzier told authorities he is a YouTuber. Deputies found cameras, a phone, a laptop and a drone in the men's vehicle.

The two pleaded guilty to trespassing and illegal parking, both misdemeanors, Nye County District Attorney Chris Arabia said. They were sentenced to a year in jail. But that sentence was suspended and the two will spend a total of three days in the county jail if they pay a fine of $2,280 each on Thursday -- when they're scheduled to be released.

They have additionally given up the electronic equipment found at the time of their arrest, Arabia said.

"It was important to us that these men serve jail time and pay a substantial financial penalty," he said. "We take this crime seriously. And people need to understand that we will not put up with this kind of nonsense."

Granzier said he and his friend "didn't want to cause any trouble" in a police video. "We learned from our mistakes."

[Zundfolge]

I knew the weebs would puss out and disappoint us.

[FoxtArt]

I think the "event" is 3AM tonight or something I've heard. But yeah, I'm guessing like 2-3 people try to casually walk over.

If it were real, the best military answer is actually those short-wave microwave crowd deterrents. Just one humvee could make 100,000k run away crying in SJ unison. It makes your skin feel like it's on fire.

Probably not "authorized" for US deployment though, I'm sure there's minute health risks associated with it (as there is with any other form of crowd control)

[WETWRKS]

My bet is 20,000 show up. 50 think about crossing the line. 10 get drunk enough to get themselves arrested for crossing the line.

[FoxtArt]

I think 98% of the people there went to "go watch all the idiots try to cross". It'll be a bunch of guys in lawn chairs ultimately watching a bunch of other guys in lawn chairs.

Begs the question...
Who is the real idiots?

[BushMasterBoy]

Video depicting Area 51 trespass to music. I still prefer Pink Floyd...

[ray1970]

The kind of basement dwelling, tin foil hat wearing vagina boys that would be interested in storming Area 51 would probably piss their pants at the sight of any kind of weapon. Defending Area 51 against a wave of these fucktards would be as simple as posting a soldier with a rifle every couple hundred yards around the perimeter.

Although I?d love to actually see them swarm in droves and watch several A-10?s just mowing them all down by the hundreds.

[Gman]

'Storm Area 51' Facebook event draws only about 100 people

[electronman1729]

Just as an FYI I got to stand at the edge of the sedan crater at the Nevada Test Site this summer.