Already happening:
....and not just the superbowl. Large gatherings (100k plus) are almost a national security event.
Posted on 10/27/2017 4:17:11 AM PDT by Travis McGee
One of the scenarios we ran over was a little crop duster simply spraying herbicide droplets on a stadium crowd shortly after 9/11. The stampede would kill thousands.
—as an aside to this-—
“One of the scenarios we ran over was a little crop duster simply spraying herbicide droplets on a stadium crowd shortly after 9/11. The stampede would kill thousands. “
Fortunately, the NFL has taken steps to reduce the crowd size at their games. This is very patriotic of them.
Already happening:
....and not just the superbowl. Large gatherings (100k plus) are almost a national security event.
Yep. The real killer would be the panic stampede on the upper decks and in the tunnels. A drone releasing a harmless but stinky and visible mist would be enough to trigger a panic.
But it would be kind of funny to see a quad rotor drone chasing football players around the field. I’m surprised it hasn’t happened yet. A drone can be programmed to fly straight down to the middle of the field by GPS, and then the operator can use the camera to cause mischief.
Do you think NFL stadiums all have anti-drone weapons yet? I’ll bet they don’t, but I could be wrong.
The more vacant seats, the safer they become. The NFL kneelers might be doing everybody a favor.
ISIS and their opponents use drones to drop grenades. You might set up jammers for commercial drone frequencies, but I doubt stadium attendees would tolerate their cell phone frequencies getting jammed.
Dozens if not 100s of ATF and FBI agents knew all about the mass murder plan called Operation Fast and Furious, and there were no whistleblowers until after a border patrol agent was killed with an OFAF rifle. And we have seen the IRS and FBI fully politicized and weaponized, so I put nothing past the FLEAs.
This brings up in the days after the Las Vegas shooting incident when it was discovered that the shooter was looking at trying to do a shoot-out in Boston’s Fenway Park. It was discussed on the Hannity Show. That SWAT team snipers on roof tops of stadiums wave of future.
That’s my concern, precisely.
I can deal with being by myself or hanging with the aged but spry GSD and spouse.
Zero interest in crowds of any size. That goes double for ones with blasting music.
I generally don’t want to go farther than my storage building.
That’s right, and the trigger is unimportant. A panic stampede is the real killer, especially on stadium upper decks when people are pushed off the edge to drop 100 feet to the bottom deck. Or crushed in the tunnels.
A typical quad rotor drone releasing a harmless stinky mist could do it.
And Paddock’s laptop hard drive is missing.
I’m sure he brought a laptop with no hard drive up to his suite. Or maybe he ate it.
There have been several mass-casualty trampling events just in pedestrian concourses on the way to Mecca. Anyplace thousands of people are hemmed in can become a death trap.
The White Snake concert in 2003 was a horror show. 100 burned alive because the fleeing mob piled up in the exits due to panic.
—yep—if the “authorities” were trying to cause conspiracy theories , they couldn’t do a better job than they are—
“What will most likely happen will be the placement of sniper shooters on the roof tops of sports stadiums in the near future.”
They already do it for the super bowl, but counter-snipers atop a stadium will have a hard time finding and taking out an area-fire sniper who is 3/4 of a mile or greater away.
The sniper only has to hit a stadium-sized target. The counter-sniper has to find and hit a hidden target that is only a few feet square. That’s why I suggest staging marksmen near the police helicopters. They may need to hunt for the sniper.
That is why you have to have an army of snipers, not just one or two.
Well done, Matt.
See my comment to Biggirl above. Currently stadium security is faced inward. Every building or tower within a mile could hide a sniper who only needs to be able to hit a giant stadium-sized target. The police sniper at the stadium will have his work cut out searching for a sniper who is hidden 1,000+ yards away. That’s why I suggest helicopters, and training to hunt for snipers. After Las Vegas, we see that LE really has no plan. A police counter-sniper on top of a stadium is mostly theater, if the sniper is hidden a mile away.
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