White flags planted on Brooklyn Bridge, American flags missing as mystery deepens

[SummerSnow]

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/american-flags-stolen-atop-brooklyn-bridge-cops-article-1.1875673

Two high-flying American flags were surreptitiously swiped from atop the Brooklyn Bridge and mysteriously replaced early Tuesday with a pair of white banners, police said.

The substitute flags were flying by sunrise from atop the 273-foot towers on the venerable bridge despite round-the-clock NYPD security on the span.

What remained unclear hours later: who was responsible, what happened to the missing American flags — and how the thieves scaled the towers without drawing any attention.

“There’s no particular nexus to terrorism or politics,” said John Miller, the NYPD’s anti-terrorism czar. “It might be some kind of art project or statement. But we are not sure what that statement is.”

[Historic NY]

1. Brooklyn surrendered???

[SummerSnow]

3. Impossible.

[NightWatcher]

2. 2 things: 1. Maybe it was a Red Team OP

2. everything sounds worse/creepier when read by a computerized voice.

Note: A Red Team OP is when professionals attempt to gain access to secure locations/information to show the people who are securing it that there are weaknesses and they are vulnerable.

[TwilightGardener]

5. Hope so. Because that's a little unnerving.

[randome]

4. Fine. I'll confess. SummerSnow did it.

[hr][font color="blue"][center]Everything is a satellite to some other thing.[/center][/font][hr]

[cwydro]

6. Somebody

had a lot of skill to climb up there.

Looks like to me that our "Homeland Security" is seriously lacking.

Flags are one thing. How about something more sinister? Scares me.

[JackRiddler]

7. Heh.

[MineralMan]

8. Prank. A good one, too.

Took planning and ingenuity. Someone's laughing over a beer.

[Texasgal]

9. Pretty serious prank if you ask me.

Whomever climbed up on both sides without being detected was not just a typical prankster.

[MineralMan]

11. Harmless, though.

Switching flags harms nobody. As for the security, there are always lapses. Observation finds those. The rest is just doing it.

As an inveterate prankster in my day, this would have been within my capabilities, for sure.

[Texasgal]

12. I'd day this is a pretty major security lapse.

Just my opinion.

[MineralMan]

13. Indeed. That makes the prank better and

makes for excellent publicity. As I said, someone is laughing over a beer.

[joshcryer]

10. Probably a statement on the security state.

Hopefully someone releases something soon.

The security state being that US freedom is waving a white flag.

And it doesn't even stop people from doing what they did.

[ohheckyeah]

14. Is the newscaster on the video a robot?

Sure sounds like it.