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Seattle Times By Dahlia Bazzaz and Sydney Brownstone

Three Tacoma-area power substations were vandalized early Christmas morning, officials said Sunday, cutting off power to more than 14,000 people in eastern Pierce County.

The Pierce County Sherriff’s Department is investigating whether the incidents were coordinated and whether they could be connected to a string of recent attacks on power substations around the country by right-wing extremists.

Sgt. Darren Moss Jr. said the department received a burglary call at a Tacoma Power substation in Spanaway shortly after 5 a.m. When deputies arrived, they saw forced entry and vandalized equipment that caused a loss of power. A Tacoma Power substation in Graham revealed a similar scene: forced entry and damaged equipment.

The department also received a call from Puget Sound Energy later Sunday morning advising of another power outage at 2:39 a.m. from a third facility in Puyallup. Deputies at that scene said the facility had been broken into and vandalized. That outage lasted around 30 minutes and power has since been restored, said Moss.

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The Pierce County Sherriff’s Department is investigating whether the incidents were coordinated and whether they could be connected to a string of recent attacks on power substations around the country by right-wing extremists.

WTF? How do they know it was by right wing extremists?

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WTF? How do they know it was by right wing extremists?
They don't, they are only saying it because they want people to hate and fear conservatives, conservative = right wing according to socialists. I bet that these attacks are all by Antifa fascist types and probably funded by the FBI or OGA.

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WTF? How do they know it was by right wing extremists?
Because Left wing extremists are not the boogeyman of choice.

Probably some bunch of ecowhacko extremists, and they are lefties. Who else is out to disrupt gas pipelines, oil pipelines, and other means of providing energy?
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Perhaps the power companies should start mounting trail cameras (or some other kind) in inconspicuous places in their substations.

That ought to make it clear just who is doing such damage...

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Perhaps the power companies should start mounting trail cameras (or some other kind) in inconspicuous places in their substations.

That ought to make it clear just who is doing such damage...
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Perhaps the power companies should start mounting trail cameras (or some other kind) in inconspicuous places in their substations.

That ought to make it clear just who is doing such damage...

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Perhaps the power companies should start mounting trail cameras (or some other kind) in inconspicuous places in their substations.

That ought to make it clear just who is doing such damage...
Well maybe, but I'm willing to bet the terrorists(Antifa/Eco Terrorists) doing this will be completely covered in black with gloves and balaclava so that short of catching them in the act they will never be identified.

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Seattle Times By Dahlia Bazzaz and Sydney Brownstone

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Three Tacoma-area power substations were vandalized early Christmas morning, officials said Sunday, cutting off power to more than 14,000 people in eastern Pierce County.

The Pierce County Sherriff’s Department is investigating whether the incidents were coordinated and whether they could be connected to a string of recent attacks on power substations around the country by right-wing extremists.



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Say WHAT????

It is the freaking left that does this. It is almost their freaking "trademark"!


 
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Perhaps the power companies should start mounting trail cameras (or some other kind) in inconspicuous places in their substations.

That ought to make it clear just who is doing such damage...

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Frankly,I am surprised they haven't been doing this for years. In order for them to determine where,when,and how fires suddenly "broke out". For example,if a cable got hot,caught fire,and the fire spread,they could identify which cable it was and determine if the cable was flawed,too small for the job,not properly grounded,etc,etc,etc.

Hell,cameras are cheap,but power stations sure as hell ain't cheap.

You would think their insurance companies would demand on-site cameras,wouldn't you?

Not to mention on-site human and dog guards patrolling after hours.
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Well maybe, but I'm willing to bet the terrorists(Antifa/Eco Terrorists) doing this will be completely covered in black with gloves and balaclava so that short of catching them in the act they will never be identified.

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That's why you have guards patrolling with K-9 partners. You would have bodies to inspect and identify,at a MINIMUM,which would give you good leads to who they have been associating with that should also be questioned.
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They can put the Right Wing Extremists theory to bed.  Arrest have been made. 2 men using the power outages to break into outage area businesses.  And just like that the story disappeared from Seattle Tacoma area news.   
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They can put the Right Wing Extremists theory to bed.  Arrest have been made. 2 men using the power outages to break into outage area businesses.  And just like that the story disappeared from Seattle Tacoma area news.
Yet again. The media have their go-to boogeyman, though, and their hateful rhetoric will persist until RWEs are right up there with Drug Lords and flesh-eating zombies as "bad guys".
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2 petty copper thieves. Probably tweakers.