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What Really Happened with the Substation Attack in North Carolina?
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What Really Happened with the Substation Attack in North Carolina?
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Save you a watch: there’s really no real answers that weren’t already in existing news articles.
Two substations were attacked with gunfire. Specific parts of the transformers at those substations were targeted. Interestingly one of the two stations was a lot less critical, but it’s position may have led someone to believe it wasn’t.
The video does go in to some interesting detail on the steps used to repair the substations and restore power, but the real questions of “Who did this” and “why did they do it” remain unanswered. This was almost certainly a deliberate act for a purpose, not some drunk rando popping shots off.
We don’t know what happened in this attack, but in a similar recent attack in WA, the guys were caught, and we have their motive:
>Greenwood told investigators after his arrest that the two knocked out power so they could burglarize a business and steal from the cash register. The business was not identified in the complaint.
[https://www.cbsnews.com/news/matthew-greenwood-jeremy-crahan-arrested-washington-substation-vandalism/](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/matthew-greenwood-jeremy-crahan-arrested-washington-substation-vandalism/)
Most likely it’s something similar, knock out power and disable the security systems of nearby properties and rob them.
It’s actually surprising more thieves haven’t started doing this way earlier, since transformers are so vulnerable. Those 2 were caught because they are dumbasses, but even a slightly more sophisticated thief could most likely get away.
local militia
These attacks on our infrastructure are becoming more and more common place, domestic terrorism needs to be punished as a capitol crime.
I’m confused by his use of the term “security through obscurity” immediately followed by “out in the open on public display.” Isn’t that the opposite of obscurity?