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White flags planted on Brooklyn Bridge, American flags missing as mystery deepens
The vandals apparently used aluminum pans — ‘like the ones you cook turkeys with’ — to cover the bridge’s lights and their tracks, a police source said. Cops say they want to interview five people caught on video just after 3 a.m. The motivation for the stunt is still unknown.
BY THOMAS TRACY , ROCCO PARASCANDOLA , LARRY MCSHANE NEW YORK DAILY NEWSPublished: Tuesday, July 22, 2014, 10:17 AM Updated: Tuesday, July 22, 2014, 5:43 PM
Two high-flying American flags were surreptitiously swiped from atop the Brooklyn Bridge and mysteriously replaced early Tuesday with a pair of white banners, police said.
The substitute flags were flying by sunrise from atop the 273-foot towers on the venerable bridge despite round-the-clock NYPD security on the span.
What remained unclear hours later: who was responsible, what happened to the missing American flags — and how the thieves scaled the towers without drawing any attention.
“There’s no particular nexus to terrorism or politics,” said John Miller, the NYPD’s anti-terrorism czar. “It might be some kind of art project or statement. But we are not sure what that statement is.”
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/...icle-1.1875673
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