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Old 10-11-2014, 12:57 PM
 
Location: New Jersey!!!!
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Please let this become a regular thing! We need something funny here to continuously embarrass our foolish mayor (and to take his mind off of racially dividing our city). Where will the mysterious ninja mole strike next?

Mysterious prankster throws flare from sidewalk grate | New York Post
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Old 10-11-2014, 07:05 PM
 
Location: Bronx
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I wonder if this transplant will get caught? Any how I was laughing at the whole thing.
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Old 10-11-2014, 07:06 PM
 
Location: NYPD"s 30th Precinct
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I don't get it. There's plenty of funny pranks out there, but this guy simply tossed a road flare into a crowded restaurant. That's it. It doesn't take any thought, effort, or planning.

Pretty sure this is called "just being a jerk".
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Old 10-11-2014, 07:35 PM
 
Location: New Jersey!!!!
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No thought, effort or planning to somehow get into the sewers and end up in front of his intended target?
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Old 10-11-2014, 08:26 PM
 
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I wonder if this transplant will get caught? Any how I was laughing at the whole thing.
I'm betting he's a native New Yorker. Who better to know how to traverse the sewers than a native?
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Old 10-11-2014, 08:36 PM
 
Location: Brooklyn
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A lot of planning, he came out of an employee only subway maintenance gate. Probably an NYU frat thing but really not funny. This could give bad ideas to lone wolf wannabe terrorist losers which is why the NYPD welds manhole covers shut in Times Square on New Years Eve.
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Old 10-11-2014, 08:36 PM
 
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Probably subway ventilation grate, not a sewer. Emerging from the ground in a cloud of smoke is pretty cool, but tossing the flare into the restaurant seating area was just being a jerk.
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Old 10-11-2014, 08:38 PM
 
Location: NYPD"s 30th Precinct
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No thought, effort or planning to somehow get into the sewers and end up in front of his intended target?
It doesn't go to the sewers, that is an access gate to a subway tunnel.

So it's kind of ballsy, but no, it doesn't take much skill or cunning to climb up the nearest access point, toss a flare at the first thing you see, then climb back down.
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Old 10-12-2014, 08:59 AM
 
Location: New Jersey
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A lot of planning, he came out of an employee only subway maintenance gate. Probably an NYU frat thing but really not funny. This could give bad ideas to lone wolf wannabe terrorist losers which is why the NYPD welds manhole covers shut in Times Square on New Years Eve.
I agree. Thankfully it was likely someone looking to get attention with a sophomoric prank but gaps in security like this need to be filled. From subway grates to people just easily hopping a gate onto local airport tarmacs.
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