Don't try this at home
There was a guy in the UK near me that used to do this like 20 years ago. I never heard about him getting caught or anything.
It wasn't a rock though, they would throw a javelin up on the power lines. It would wipe out the power for half the town.
I never found out if they got caught, stopped or got fried. But at some point it stopped happening and I forgot all about it until now.
they would throw a javelin up on the power lines
That sounds like something from a movie.
i think the Tarnac 9 were accused of doing something like this to TGV lines, which i only know about because i read The Coming Insurrection in 2009, which talked about them in the forward to the english translation.
the original french version came out in 2007 and spoke about how, if one tried to live in self-sufficient, simple communities, the forces of state and capital would array themselves to destroy you, so you might as well fuck with the flows anyway.
in 2008, a group of mutual aid anarchists in a small leftist village--who were known within the village for running a grocery cooperative, organizing a bunch of civic activities from a film club to delivering food to elderly people--were mass arrested in a police action involving 150 troops in ski masks carrying machine guns and multiple helicopters.
the prosecution's evidence was that a couple of the people arrested were in the same area where some train delaying sabotage occurred and that they believed one of the people wrote the booklet that said the thing. that was their evidence. they thought the guy probably wrote an anonymous booklet.
it took about 10 years of bullshit for the government's case to evaporate enough for these people to no longer be under the cloud of a terrorism case, because it was embarrassingly fabricated. not to mention, the ordeal basically added weight to one of the authors' flippant remarks. total Inspector Clouseau type shit.
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its cool how the landscape looked like a bleak world of ruin for one second
Seems like the Aliexpress average for entry-level quadcopters is now $20-60. Future insurgencies are going to be so interesting.
The wide spread availability and low cost of drones is already having great effects on the course of the war in Ukraine. Swarms of cheap drones are being used for real-time targetting of artillery and missile strikes in a manner totally unlike anything we've seen prior to this. The US has shitloads of drones but the US hasn't fought a real war since Vietnam. This is mass deployment of drones being used in pitched near peer battle.
And you can ask Artsakh what happens when you don't integrate and reorient your military doctrine around drones.
A short circuit arcing across the wire that is wrapped around the rock. I assume the bolt is the arc following the rock as it heads towards the ground. Somewhat related, you can also apparently do some pretty wild stuff with graphite and power lines: https://youtu.be/_2i5TUR9jRk
Again, I would not recommend even thinking about doing this and am only posting this video here for educational purposes.
That was a messed up video. Love how normalized total war is that targeting civilian infrastructure is just a given.
I feel like this knowledge could be reappropriated by the people. Maybe you could rig a canister of graphite wires with a simple explosive to launch them at the power lines with a pipe "bazooka". A half dozen environmentalists shooting at the power lines leading out from a coal power plant might be able to shut it down non-destructively.
Doing this would almost certainly lead to power outages and fires, especially trying to do a DIY version of it. And as always, without a well-organized network of workers to take advantage of whatever damage is caused, this won’t do anything except turn people against you and likely get you arrested.
I think the implication in the video is that whoever’s deploying this is choosing between the graphite, which keeps the majority of the infrastructure intact, and a more traditional bomb which would absolutely destroy it and have a higher change of killing civilians. But as we saw in Texas, US infrastructure is so shitty that even short lived outages will cause deaths
sounds like a good way to have that arc go from the lines to the ground via you
that's why I'm shooting the tangle of wires out of a bazooka instead of throwing a rock into the lines from below, to get myself further away from the electrical arc.
That's fair. Or maybe a catapult type thing. I don't know why I was picturing it standing there.
Everyone wave to our FBI agent. Hey Fred! How are the kids? How did Nancy's ballet recital go?
just make a bunch of these and load them with graphite threads
Russia is still providing electricity to Kiev-controlled areas of Ukraine from the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant that they captured.
don’t tell me what to do, these rocks ain’t gonna throw themselves
