From: "Rich Gauszka" 

While there have been reports of some arrested taking apart the cell phones
I haven't seen any reports of those arrested regarding the Mackinac bridge
incident doing so.

I agree the behavior is suspicious. I'ts just that many are lumping
together facts of various incidents thus making the actions even more
bizarre




"Gary Britt"  wrote in message
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> And of course if you want to resell cell phones bought at retail prices at
> Wal-Mart for profit the first thing you do is:
>
> 1.  Get in your car with two buddies and drive to the nearest Wal-Mart
> that is at least 1000 miles from where you live in Texas.
>
> 2.  You increase their resell value by immediately removing them from
> their packaging and separating them from their batteries and chargers.
>
> 3.  You sell them sans packaging for a profit over the wal-mart retail
> price to gas station operators and convenience store clerks, who in turn
> mark them up a second time so they can sell them to other people who
> aren't interested in the packaging and chargers and batteries or
> INSTRUCTIONS on how to buy more minutes or how to activate them.
>
> 4.  You assume that there will be an market of purchasers for these
> enhanced by no packaging, chargers or instructions cell phones by people
> too lazy or stupid to go to wal-mart themselves and buy the very same
> phone for half the price off the shelf with packaging , warranty, minutes
> purchasing instructions, phone operation instructions, and a charger.
>
> Next while 1000 to 1500 miles from the wife and baby exploiting your
> booming cell phone packaging removal and resale business you go site
> seeing and take lots of pictures of and make various drawings of the
> largest bridge in the area because of course you can sell the cell phones
> even faster by throwing them off the Mackinaw Bridge to the waiting
> throngs of never heard of buying for themselves at wal-mart customers in
> boats below the bridge.
>
> Only a moron would even consider such an explanation for more than oh
> about 100 microseconds.  Actually, that statement is too disrespectful of
> regular morons.
>
> Gary
>
> "John Beamish"  wrote in message
> news:op.td806xwem6tn4t{at}dellblack.wlfdle.phub.net.cable.rogers.com...
>> 1.  (And this doesn't surprise me a whit).
>> The "threat" of the plane bombers was trivial and came up because
>> somebody needed aome visibility.
>>
>> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14320452/
>>
>> Source: U.S., U.K. at odds over timing of arrests
>> British wanted to continue surveillance on terror suspects, official
>> says NBC VIDEO
>>
>>
>> . Disagreement over terror arrests
>> Aug. 12: U.S. and British authorities disagreed on when to break up an
>> alleged plot to blow up airliners bound for the United States, officials
>> say. NBC's Lisa Myers reports.
>>
>> By Aram Roston, Lisa Myers, and the NBC News Investigative Unit
>> NBC News
>> Updated: 8:13 p.m. ET Aug 12, 2006
>>
>> LONDON - NBC News has learned that U.S. and British authorities had a
>> significant disagreement over when to move in on the suspects in the
>> alleged plot to bring down trans-Atlantic airliners bound for the United
>> States.
>>
>> A senior British official knowledgeable about the case said British
>> police were planning to continue to run surveillance for at least another
>> week to try to obtain more evidence, while American officials pressured
>> them to arrest the suspects sooner. The official spoke on condition of
>> anonymity due to the sensitivity of the case.
>>
>> In contrast to previous reports, the official suggested an attack was not
>> imminent, saying the suspects had not yet purchased any airline tickets.
>> In fact, some did not even have passports.
>>
>>
>> 2.  (This explains the cell phones perfectly:  somebody wanted a quick
>> score -- the capitalist way)
>>
>> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/12/AR2006081200
692.html
>>
>> 3 Texas Men Arraigned on Terror Charges
>>
>> The Associated Press
>> Saturday, August 12, 2006; 11:07 PM
>>
>> CARO, Mich. -- Three Texas men were arraigned Saturday on
>> terrorism-related charges after police found about 1,000 cell phones in
>> their minivan, and prosecutors say they believe the men were targeting a
>> bridge connecting Michigan's Upper and Lower peninsulas.
>>
>> But two of the men said they were only trying to buy and sell phones to
>> make money, and one said the money was intended to help pay for his
>> brother's college education.
>>
>> (In other places, you can see that apparently [I'm not tied in to these,
>> uh, "enterprises", so I have to take others' analyses as not
>> unreasonable] somebody has found a way to hack the cheapie pre-paid cell
>> phones so they work on other networks.  Besides ... what terrorist
>> network is going to need 1000 cell phones?  If you need that many you'd
>> pick them up in a bunch now, a bunch several months from now ...
>
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