Port Hueneme and Shipborne "Nitro's For You"

Urbane Guerrilla · 06-26-2006, 05:17 PM

Welp, li'l ole P.H. is live on the national news. I think I just heard a news helo overhead. The Port of Hueneme -- No. 3 port in California and the one seaport between Long Beach and San Francisco Bay -- is closed down as I type, and traffic a block away is fouled up, while the bomb dogs and the Coast Guard see if there's anything to a scrawled graffito within a cargo hold that reads, "G.W., this nitroglycerin's for you and your Jewish buddies." The ship is a Guatemalan-registered banana boat; no word on what language the writing was in. I doubt there was any nitroglycerin on the cargo manifest.

This is within walking distance of my living room -- but somehow I'm not expecting to hear any loud boom.

Developing...

{edited to improve quote]

Urbane Guerrilla · 06-26-2006, 07:00 PM

And now the port's back open, the excitement is presumably fading, and no loud noises.

Urbane Guerrilla · 06-27-2006, 07:46 PM

After about four or five variations given during the news coverage on the message scribbled on a stanchion in the banana boat's hold, the final version seems to be "Nitro + glycerin my gift for G.W. Bush and his Jewish gang."

Terrorists? Nope, not foreign ones anyway. But Ventura County does have neo-nazi skinheads and it looks like at least one of these is stinking up the local longshoremen's union.

Not developing any more.

06-26-2006, 05:17 PM	#1
Urbane Guerrilla Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Southern California Posts: 6,674	Port Hueneme and Shipborne "Nitro's For You" Welp, li'l ole P.H. is live on the national news. I think I just heard a news helo overhead. The Port of Hueneme -- No. 3 port in California and the one seaport between Long Beach and San Francisco Bay -- is closed down as I type, and traffic a block away is fouled up, while the bomb dogs and the Coast Guard see if there's anything to a scrawled graffito within a cargo hold that reads, "G.W., this nitroglycerin's for you and your Jewish buddies." The ship is a Guatemalan-registered banana boat; no word on what language the writing was in. I doubt there was any nitroglycerin on the cargo manifest. This is within walking distance of my living room -- but somehow I'm not expecting to hear any loud boom. Developing... {edited to improve quote] __________________ Wanna stop school shootings? End Gun-Free Zones, of course. Last edited by Urbane Guerrilla; 06-26-2006 at 05:33 PM.

06-26-2006, 07:00 PM	#2
Urbane Guerrilla Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Southern California Posts: 6,674	And now the port's back open, the excitement is presumably fading, and no loud noises. __________________ Wanna stop school shootings? End Gun-Free Zones, of course.

06-27-2006, 07:46 PM	#3
Urbane Guerrilla Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Southern California Posts: 6,674	After about four or five variations given during the news coverage on the message scribbled on a stanchion in the banana boat's hold, the final version seems to be "Nitro + glycerin my gift for G.W. Bush and his Jewish gang." Terrorists? Nope, not foreign ones anyway. But Ventura County does have neo-nazi skinheads and it looks like at least one of these is stinking up the local longshoremen's union. Not developing any more. __________________ Wanna stop school shootings? End Gun-Free Zones, of course.

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