As a “security measure” that will probably end up only making the situation less safe, the Port Authority of NY and NJ has “indefinitely” suspended power to the repeaters that provide cell phone service to within the Holland and Lincoln tunnels, two pathways which allow motorists to cross under the Hundosn River from New Jersey into New York and back. They claim the move was a “safety measure,” as they believe terrorists could set off explosives by sending messages over the cell phone network to attached receivers in the bombs. Problem is, if a bomber really DOES want to blow up a tunnel, they can still use a good old timing device; and should a citizen notice something suspicious before a bomb does go off, no one in the tunnel will be able to call 911 and get help.
Also: they insist the shutoff was done at the request of “law enforcement agencies,” but so far, not a single agency, from the police to the NYC Mayor’s Office to the Department of Homeland Security own up to making such a request.
Way to think ahead guys. What’s next; shall all clocks, watches and timing devices be banned from the tunnels too? Or, maybe we should just mandate that time itself is suspended in the tunnels; yeah, that’ll work. Or, we can make the tunnels ultra-uber-super safe, and completely close them, so that no one can get into them at all. That way no one can blow them up EVAR !!!!!1one