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15 small-boat moorings missing from harbor
Boston Globe ^
| 6/22/2002
| By Emily Ramshaw, Globe Correspondent
Posted on 06/22/2002 9:34:13 AM PDT by vannrox
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:07:54 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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This year's boating season opened with a mystery: the theft of almost a third of the new moorings placed around the islands of Boston Harbor.
Harbor officials doing an inventory of the islands' moorings on Sunday found that 15 of the 50 buoys installed last August by the Boston Harbor Islands Partnership to provide safe anchorage and on-site waste removal services to private boaters had been stolen.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: 911; battle; binladen; boat; bomb; boston; harbor; kill; missing; mooring; strange; terror; unusual; war; wtc
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Terror related item?
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posted on
06/22/2002 9:34:14 AM PDT
by
vannrox
To: vannrox
If pissed off lobster fishermen are within your definition of terrorism... maybe.
To: John H K
Grab your tinfoil hat
To: vannrox
Maybe they dressed up as Indians and had a "Boston Buoy Party".
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posted on
06/22/2002 9:49:33 AM PDT
by
FreePaul
To: vannrox
I think this is actually a very good anti-terror tactic... When the terrorists come in to the harbor, and find no buoy to moor to... they will be forced to move on.
Drat! foiled again!
Seriously.... What is your point with this?
To: luvzhottea
"Grab your tinfoil hat"Trouble is, we no longer have the luxury at laughing at even the smallest of suspicious activity such as this.
Yes, we should all keep our eyes and ears open.
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posted on
06/22/2002 9:53:55 AM PDT
by
sneakers
To: vannrox
Some of these are pretty peculiar keywords for this story, don't you think? I sure do.
KEYWORDS: 911 BATTLE BIN LADEN BOAT BOMB BOSTON HARBOR KILL MISSING MOORING STRANGE TERROR UNUSUAL WAR WTC
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posted on
06/22/2002 9:54:53 AM PDT
by
Clara Lou
To: Clara Lou
WHat if they "mysteriously" reappear a week from now?
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posted on
06/22/2002 10:23:17 AM PDT
by
vannrox
To: HairOfTheDog
Seriously.... What is your point with this?
Perhaps they were relocated to "out of the way" coves and inlets near potential scuba diver attack-able targets.
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posted on
06/22/2002 11:23:41 AM PDT
by
AdA$tra
To: vannrox
Yuck. Don't eat Boston Harbor lobsters! Maine and Canadian lobsters are better.
To: AdA$tra
Perhaps... Installing buoys to tie up to at all potential target locations ahead of time is so much nicer than having to anchor out when you get there!
To: vannrox
Terror related item? An obvious Al Quaeda plot to disrupt recreational boating in Boston Harbor.
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posted on
06/22/2002 11:42:46 AM PDT
by
1rudeboy
To: FreePaul
Do you have to be indian to come to the "Boston Buoy Party"?
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posted on
06/22/2002 12:12:21 PM PDT
by
norraad
To: HairOfTheDog
Heck, for that matter, one could pack the boat with explosives, tie off right at the target with the pre-placed moorings and swim away.
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posted on
06/22/2002 1:05:36 PM PDT
by
AdA$tra
To: vannrox
I think it is.
To: vannrox
Wow, they were right about issuing a scuba diver terrorist alert.
/sarcasm
To: norraad
No, the tradition is to just dress like one!
To: RaceBannon
An interesting aside I found in many local historical society libraries is that there were many "Boston" Tea parties all over the place at that time.
Boston not being the first or thee largest.
Interesting what is & isn't included in our little schoolhouse history books.
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posted on
06/22/2002 2:31:37 PM PDT
by
norraad
To: vannrox
....maybe its Defrocked Priests and a misunderstanding about Altar Bouys?....
To: norraad
Or thou smallest.
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