Velociraptor embryos!
Posted on 10/21/2005 2:40:31 AM PDT by LibertyRocks
Two Norman men face felony charges after allegedly breaking into a tunnel under the University of Oklahoma campus to get into a building on the South Oval.
Christopher Thomas Boyce, 24, and James Kent Eldridge, 20, were charged Thursday in Cleveland County District Court with conspiracy to commit burglary and second-degree burglary.
According to an affidavit, a witness saw Boyce and Eldridge entering an underground tunnel system by cutting the locks to a manhole cover in the 1100 block of Asp Avenue. Police said the pair then opened a perimeter door and entered Richards Hall, where they removed a "stoppered glass vial."
I bow to your superior scholarship.
I was more interested in speed than accuracy (hello Google Image Search)
. . . proving (I suppose) that a history degree with a specialty in English history and military history is not ENTIRELY wasted . . .
. . . but don't try to earn a living with it . . .
Good on ya.
That's funny.
BTW, if PhiKapMom is a little late rolling in, it's because of the OU game. I've been sweating them out, through two OT's against Baylor, but the Sooner Nation prevailed, 37-30!!!!! Booommmmer Soooooonner!
However, my baseball team lost to the Chisox, but we have several more games to go and tickets to make good, lol.
That's a good idea. My guess is that they already know about the connections (the kids's dad esp.) and that's why they aren't elaborating further... But, it's still worth a try! (o: I'll write some of them tonight/tomorrow. Perhaps Ch. 9's Tamara Pratt would be interested - she seemed to be doing the best investigating in the OU case...
work-week BTTT
Good idea. I had phone problems yesterday (I have dial-up) and am just now getting back online, so I hope this story gets revealed somehow!
Velociraptor embryos!
I thought you would get a kick out of that.
BTW, George Metesky is still alive, and still in prison. A model prisoner. I bet he gets to use the computer.
Uh-Oh. I must correct myself. George died in 1994. I don't recall reading about his passing. This may be why:
>>>Upon his release from Matteawan in 1973, Metesky took up residence in his family’s Waterbury residence where he died in 1994 at the age of 90. His death did not make the papers.<<<
George Metesky was released from prison in 1973 and died in 1994.
Whoops! You self-corrected...
Well, anyway--the point is, I guess, that this country has always had insane persons going around making bombs and blowing them up who were NOT foreign terrorists.
Maybe the boy at OU who blew himself up on the bench was just a garden variety paranoid schizophrenic with a knack for bombmaking.
I wrote to her and let her know some of the things we've discovered. Hopefully, she can get her bosses to let her look into the case a little more...
LOL... Thanks for the laugh! (o:
Anytime. That's why I'm here!
Yes, hopefully
fleas = plague? One thing seems certain, it's not likely these two were just wandering around aimlessly below Richards Hall with no particular goal in mind.
BUMPEROO
Hi all. I am not a regular to this forum, and I must say, you all have a very weird setup. Anyway, the reason I am on here is because I happen to know jim eldridge from when I went to school at OU in Spring '04. I just wanted to give you guys a couple of things I happen to know about Jim and some of the things happening at OU.
1) Jim does have political views that many do not agree with
2) Jim has done several drugs in the past
3) Jim is formerly a vegan
I only posted the third bit because I was informed from a good friend of mine that works in Richards Hall that they had been warned to look out for animal rights groups activity a couple days before this happened. While Jim never said anything about being involved with PETA or the such, but coupled with my first statement, I can see him doing something like this.
Just some food for thought
Greg Heineken
Ping to post #173
I'm the guy who Greg mentioned who works in that building.
I know a hell of a lot about Jim, anyone who reads his facebook profile would know some of this. He supports Earth First, he used to be a vegan, he's radically left-wing, anti-war, anarchist, socialist/communist, the whole 9 yards. Animal rights activists would want to generally mess with Richards Hall, as it is the Zoology building and houses plenty of animal research.
Trying to catch up (as usual)..You guys might be interested in this site. I actually wrote the FBI and Homeland Security LAST YEAR about it and it is still up and running tonight. Go figure.
http://www.uer.ca/forum_showcats.asp?fid=1
These nutters post about 'exploring' drainage systems,sewage systems, etc. to Nuclear Power Plants, Chemical Weapons Plants, Airports, Research Facilities, ETC. They have detailed MAPS of everything underground in and around our most important and sensitive sites in the US and even a chat line to discuss it all. Friggin unbelievable if u ask me. Check it out.
Another link from the site:
http://www.infiltration.org/ethics.html
INFILTRATION ZINE...talks about "going places you are not suppose to go"..they ever have a friggin book out about getting on military bases through tunnel systems!! I can not believe this site is still up and running. Maybe I should write the military and forget the FBI and the Homeland Security Dept! When I wrote them LAST YEAR..I got a form letter from the FBI and absolutely NOTHING from HS!!
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Welcome to FreeRepublic! (O:
We kinda figured that that was the case here after finding Boyce's writings and such that were available online. We're currently discussing this case over on this new thread that contains OU Daily's article: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1508704/posts
Rte66 has listed links for the court docs available online in this case. Seems Scooby Axson (OU REPORTER) "found" information not available in the affadavit it supposedly came from.
Something is definitely not right in all of this...
Wonder if he is a 'Urban Explorer'?
http://www.uer.ca/forum_showcats.asp?fid=1
from here:
http://www.infiltration.org/
I found several 'lefists' college students discussing breaking into college 'no go' zones at LABS and even discussing how to handle the 'odd case of running into janitors in the building'!! Go check it out!!
That's disturbing to say the least... Thanks for the links.
Thanks for checking it out. I had forgotten about the whole thing until I read this latest wierd news from OU!! What is disturbing is that the Feds never took it seriously when I wrote them and provided the link over a year ago!! Oddly enough, I found the site doing a google search looking for a pic of a nuclear blast to photoshop as a gag on another conservative site. These people had maps of underground tunnels online to stadiums, nuclear power plants, chemical plants, research labs..the whole works!!
What's funny is that the FBI and DHS always say "call with tips" but anyone who I've talked to that have actually done so have all been treated with indifference, and sometimes outright condemnation. Sad, but true... You mentioned sending the info to the military - you might try that, perhaps THEY could get the FBI to take it seriously...
Did we lose you guys?
BTTT!
They didn't vandalize anything, let animals out, and it's unclear if the vial was stolen or taken in with them in order to fill it with their quarry. The facebook profile on thefacebook.com is deleted. 17 years is stiff.
Doubt these guys are "explorers". Why would they have a vial. Jim likes to rock climb, tune cars, dumpster dive, party, but probably not explore underground using a bolt cutter to break in. The chance that they were there just for fun is very slim, considering the risk involved.
BIG INFO: I just recalled that Jim is terrified of cops. I've gone drifting with him. He'll do a drift in a parking lot, then go on to another one. He's been caught by cops before and he's not big into getting into trouble. There's no way he was doing this for fun, he must have been doing it for some noble cause, or because he badly needed something inside that building.
ping to #177
Thanks for the extra info. I'm old -- what is drifting? Like snowdrifts? Don't laugh at me!
You mongol. Ok, sorry. It's going really fast in a parking lot, downshifting and turning really hard and throwing the handbrake as you turn, the back end slides out, then you upshift and drive out of it as you correct.
OK--thanks, I never would've thought of that, lol. So, it's called that because it's *like* sliding into a snowdrift?
I mean, it sounds like a cousin to doing "doughnuts" on an icy parking lot. Now, that's something I understand. I don't live where we have ice anymore, but I did in Norman and OKC! Thanks for the explanation. I'll know it when I see it and have to get my walker and get to the phone to call the cops. (Not.)
And it's semi-illegal?
Oh, another thing ... do you think Chris was the leader of this little project, from what you know of the two?
You don't need to have a slippery surface to drift if your car has real wheel drive, the power of the drivetrain pushes the back end out.
Chris is probably the leader since he's older and possibly more politically active, I never knew Jim to be much of anything but a slacker.
OK--I get it, not slippery - but it *feels* like it, right? That's the rush? Like losing control?
Have you heard anyone talking about this little burglary "project" at all? I just wondered what others might think it was all about--especially the vial. Any more ideas?
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