Raid Uncovers Y2K Stockpiling

.c The Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) - The neighbors could see something was up. There had been unmarked cars on both sides of the street ``clearly doing surveillance,'' one man said.

Indeed, an investigation had been in the works for weeks, since a tip came in that big containers were being delivered to a house on a quiet street in the nation's capital. There were worries about the makings of a bomb.

Friday morning at 7:30 the raid was on. The street was crowded with agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, with local police and explosives experts, with State Department officials.

And.

``We did not find sufficient material to warrant a further investigation,'' said Brian Burns, a special agent with the ATF.

They did find 30 empty 55-gallon plastic drums.

Residents said they intended to use the drums to store water - out of concern about shortages that might be caused by Year 2000 computer problems on Jan

-- anon (GoodFor@Laugh.com), August 10, 1999

Answers

Be discrete, do whatever you have to do at night, and don't be a blabber mouth!

-- notablabbermouth (notablabbermouth@notablabbermoouth.com), August 10, 1999.

See earlier threads on this topic:

http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=001C XW
http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=001C QM

-- (TryTheseFor@Laugh.net), August 10, 1999.

No matter how discreet one attempts to be, there are people observing us in our preps. One gets comments all the time. And how discreet can one be when the UPS man is bringing in barrels and boxes, and the neighbor accepts them (unasked - just there)? And when the checkout counter guy sees and your Sam's or BJ's or Costco's card registers what you buy? Or you have to use a check?

The only solution I see for this is to finish preps and move. Now if I only could - but that's not an option, unfortunately. The other alternative is to hope that self defense will not be necessary, but to be prepared if it is. Anyone know of a GI community?

-- Being Discreet (cantsay@this.time), August 10, 1999.