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They Left 14,000 Victims Without…

Network media outlets are seriously reporting that “burglars” stole power from 14,000 residents of Tacoma, Washington on Christmas morning. It wasn’t an act of terror or anything like that, officials assure. Just a simple “burglary” at four separate power substations. Nothing was taken from the crime scenes except an uncountable number of electrons, still missing in action.

Burglars hit four substations

Initial reports came in that “burglars” hit two power substations. Then, a third and eventually a fourth were noted. All happened in Tacoma, Washington, beginning Christmas morning.

Police note that around 14,000 customers remain without electricity.

Police responded to “a call of a burglary at the Tacoma Public Utilities Substation on 46th Avenue.” The burglars made off with every volt around “5:30 a.m. on Sunday.” When deputies arrived, police write in a formal statement, “they saw evidence that a fenced area was broken into.

While nothing was taken from the substation, police said “equipment was vandalized, causing a power outage in the area.” Officials, very carefully, aren’t calling it an act of terror, domestic or otherwise.

Another “burglary” was “reported later that morning at a Tacoma Public Utilities substation on 224th Street, again with forced entry and damage to the equipment.

The burglars ones again made off with megawatts. They weren’t finished with their light looting yet.

Third one really first

The third burglary wasn’t reported by Puget Sound Energy until 11:25 a.m. but the burglars made off with all the power at that substation “at about 2:40 a.m.” Deputies confirm “the third scene was broken into as well, and the equipment was vandalized.

New York Post editors actually printed, with a clear conscience, that as “a result of the burglaries and vandalism that took place, 14,000 Tacoma residents were without power on Sunday morning.

It took a separate report, on Monday, before the public learned about the fourth time the power burglars struck. That’s when ABC reported that the search continued for “vandals who targeted four power substations on Christmas Day in Pierce County, Washington, setting fire to at least one of the facilities and knocking out power to more than 14,000 utility customers.

Their editors couldn’t live with the burglary label so at least called them “vandals.” They aren’t calling them “terrorists” despite the string of similar attacks both in the Pacific Northwest, and recently in North Carolina.

ABC points out that two of the “break-ins” were “at Tacoma Public Utilities substations and two others were at a Puget Sound Energy station.” That info comes from the sheriff’s office in Pierce County. ABC may be talking about break-ins but aren’t insulting anyone’s intelligence by calling them burglars.

They also note that “vandalism came amid a string of similar sabotage incidents across the country,” including several in the Northwest, they admit. That also “follows a bulletin issued last month by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security warning that critical infrastructure could be among the targets of possible attacks” Not just any attacks, but ones by “lone offenders and small groups motivated by a range of ideological beliefs and/or personal grievances.” We call those “burglars” now. Especially, when they might lean politically socialist.

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