The Biggest Terrorist Attack You Have Never Heard Of 

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"It doesn't take a very high degree of training or access to technology to carry out this attack that costed telecom companies 15 million dollars" And there you go. That's why there's so little publicity on the matter.

I’m a subcontractor for AT&T, and was fucking ASTOUNDED when we had to dig up the private fiber optic line for the Air Force base in town because the local water company destroyed it while installing new water lines….the Air Force base was running on emergency backup systems the entire time. How is it possible for any meth head with a shovel or a new guy training on a Kubota can knockout an airbase?

As a South African, the idea of the power being on consistently is but a fleeting memory

I once spoke to a man whose company built substations, and I asked him how they are hardened against attacks like this. He said that it depends on the area. For example, he said in the American south they would simply paint the American flag on anything they didn’t want bullet holes in, and it would magically no longer be shot at. The more you know.

>develop the internet to make cutting military communications harder >leave electrical grid completely unchanged

1:39 someone at the comedy show complained that the death stranding baby didn't fit on the shelf, Dankula said he would put it upside down just to piss her off more and actually delivered haha

The power company probably just screwed over the wrong customer. " 100$ reconnect fee for failing to pay $0.73 that you added to my bill after I'd paid it already, we'll see about that."

People would be terrified if they knew how vulnerable our infrastructure is, and it’s that way in most western countries.

There are two things that keep me up at night as a former soldier and somebody who works in a section of the security industry. 1. How absolutely pathetic the defences are around our infrastructure. 2. The indescribable level of uselessness and incompetence found within vast swathes of private security companies in the UK and often these are the people who look after our critical infrastructure. Seriously, if you have got a face then there is a very good chance you can get a job in Private security in the UK.

Perspective is a hell of thing. They won't label it terrorism, because it would be opening a very large can of worms. The sheer number of substations and lines would be well impossible to secure vs an airport.

A dude drove his car into a solar station in Las Vegas in 2023. The media was also, oddly, quiet on this one.

10:16 True fact. In the 80's I was in a gun club before they became illegal in the UK. This was pre 83 and the cold war was warming up. A member of the TA actually asked members of the gun club if we would guard power stations in the event of a war. Transformers, etc. Basically, it would have been a drinking club that shot guns before going to the pub vs. Spetnaz. We declined their generous offer.

When the government investigates an incident and finds nothing wrong -- the government did it.

remember that terrorist attack that paralyzed the city when cops were looking for a bomb in a school and meanwhile the goons were pulling off a robbery of a century?

PG&E has a ever growing history of being involved in shady shit then passing the bill to others.

My County Sheriff and some of the deputies who are former mikitary were called in on this too. Their genuine assessment of this was "I've seen the kids playing airsoft down by the creek pull off missions as complex as this. This shit isn't a highly specialized terrorist cell, the people in charge are just to stupid know that"

My father worked for a utility company for twenty years... he told me a few times about being the first one at a substation to see if a relay could be reset and almost always found a squirrel blown to bits, sitting upon a high power component.

"The Grid" as a Texan, is a phrase that just makes me super nervous. We don't even need terrorists. We are just run by morons and risk blackouts and failure daily

I worked for an underground line locating company for 1.5 years: for those that don't know, contractors induce a frequency onto a metal line or a wire following a plastic line and use a receiver to physically walk out the path of pipelines and phone lines so they can be marked on the ground surface for ongoing construction work. I had an electrical substation I visited up to 3 times a week for ongoing 811 locate tickets for stuff like building new fences, construction adjacent to the property, underground lines being rerouted. For over a year, the security measures on that 20+ acre electrical substation was A ROPE KNOT ON THE GATE. No power company staff to validate whether you were supposed to be there, no security to log visitors entering or leaving, no cameras anywhere near the gate, no need to call ahead to get access, no locks, nothing. Just an 8' foot border fence and a granny knot on the gate. Somebody high up must have had a shit fit after seeing all that because one day I pulled up and they had a security guard parked at the gate with new locks, visitor logs, needing a reference to get in and full-time security escorts while working in the facility.

This definitely sounds like a military job. Attack starting at the top of the hour . Sequential firing too hide the number of participants, Cutting communication prior, evidence of recon , precision aim with deliberate missing to hide that they were professionals.

This just happened again in Moore County, NC back in December 2022. One woman died during the outage and that's been ruled a homicide. Then again in Randolph County, NC a month later. They still have no idea who did it, at least they say so. **and again last August in Torrance, CA. They have grainy CCTV of that guy. No arrests.

Sounds a lot like Red Cell, a secretive internal security audit group created by Richard Marcinko, a Navy SEAL who also created DEVGRU/SEAL Team 6. His story would be a great Mad Lads episode. He ended up running into trouble because he kidnapped a naval officer when attempting to see if he would give up nuclear codes. They also had to video record all their ops, so there are videos out there. They also snuck a grenade onto the president's Air Force One plane.

When I was in middle school I found the electrical disconnect for the portable classes and shut it off. They suspected me but they never had any solid evidence so I got off Scott-free.

Our network infrastructure like most things was built in the times of a high trust society, they never planned for this type of threat

The fact that this happened an hour away from me and I had no clue until watching this video is just a testament to how good the government is at burying things. 😅

You being so nonchalant about your poltergeist wrecking your set while talking about the nonchalance of the gov is ::chef’s kiss:: ❤️

the whole situation GLOWS

I did my senior college paper on the vulnerability of our grid. There have been other similar incidents and in most cases they perps are never caught because security is still lacking at the majority of sub stations

"So, imagine the kind of hell that can break loose if a few ne'er-do-wells start to notice that". Thanks for bringing it to people's attention, I'm sure nobody will use this to blame you for something, Dankie

Damn, Aiden Pearce wasn't happy with his electric bill.

Hey Count Dankula there is another famous case from California around that time, that a group of 4-6 people in tactical gear and with weapons entered a power facility, planted bombs, then left, all on camera, never solved.

I like the uncle Ted jumpscare when you said "technological society"

Id imagine the government would want to keep this under the radar to prevent more people from getting wise ideas. Also the electrical grid itself is poorly equipped to handle a carrington event let alone some asshole with a rifle.

Years ago, a similar incident took place in Heber/Overgaard, Arizona, USA. One person used a .22lr to destroy a transformer, while their friends broke into a bunch of houses. To my knowledge, nobody was ever caught.

The terrifying thing is main power grid transfomers are custom made, can take 6 months to build, and there are only two companies in the world that make them. Obviously manufacturing should be a strategic military operation

An interesting fact the Department of Energy has basically their own militarized branch with thousands of armed service members.

My daughter said you are how groundskeekeeper Willie sounds in real life

This was either insurance fraud by the company or government black ops to test the viability of this kind of attack.

17:00 That's precisely what it was. There were years of background discussion about vulnerability which never went anywhere, and then this happened.

For those that dont know, high to medium voltage transformers (those that drop voltage from millions to thousand and thousands to 3phase 400v that comes to your house least in here Europe) have massive to large amount of oil inside that both cools and prevents arching inside the transformer. If its damaged and oil leaks out, this causes arching and failure of the components. Worst case scenario is that there is oil mist inside while oil is leaking trough say a crack in the casing, arc is produced that is hot enough to ignite the oil vapor and transformer detonates like a bomb, throwing hot burning oil everywhere. Very fun times in bushfire season. This is why in power stations their transformers are located in bunkers to prevent damage from the explosion, but this makes cleaning the mess of cracked casing when there is half a meter of oil on floor of the bunker rather interesting to clean. Transfer stations like in video have them on the open, since this was not considered a treat and those need being smaller air movement to enable cooling of the oil. The explosion part tends to happen only when oil level drops slowly, allowing the arch it self throw oil into air in mist, but less so when leak is massive below the oil level and there is no bubbling etc happening that would throw the oil into air inside the transformer. Attacker most definitely had expert knowledge, most likely ether well researched by them selfs, or receiving this info second hand from someone whos working in energy sector. One must know this to able to take down the power station for long time, specially when there is limited number of transformers in this size that are produced per year, that are calculated to be just enough to replace broken ones and to build new sub stations, or just regular maintenance replacement. My suspicion is hostile state was testing sabotage on the grid, or given the response, it might be false flag. But then again this did brought attention to issue and this is why one should look into producing your own power and be self sufficient in case all substations go boom boom in future. Wood gas generator would be optimal since you can find fuel literally everywhere, but these things need to be researched and tested to work long periods of time before shit hits the fan. Its like going fight a war and only on the first contact with the enemy learning to shoot.

We had something similar happen in North Carolina on Dec 3rd 2022 Moore County Substation Attack 45,000 homes without power 1 person died from power outages

This was either a white hat focus event performed by a gov black ops unit... Or someone was less than satisfied with AT&T's service.

"PG&E? Now that's a name I haven't heard in a long time. A long time." - Erin Brockowich

I used to be an HVAC tech for a comoany that had a contract with centurylink for a pretty broad area. The little remote switching stations where we serviced and replaced AC units housed fiber optic lines and apparently the cell towers still depend on them somehow, not to mention there were still a fair amount of landlines going through them then. They were all woefully under secured. Some didnt even have barbed wire fences, just a deadbolt lock to secure them. The only alarms they had were tied to thermostats to warn of overheating, in which case wed get a call. So much critical infrastructure is so vulnerable. About 10 years ago a community near me had their water tower shot with a rifle. To repair that one little hole they had to drain it completely, repair the hole and a bunch of other crap i would've never imagined. It took days for it to be up and running again.

I remember this. The nearby substation in Fremont had a police Bearcat parked in front of it for 3 months afterwards, like a scarecrow.

19:35 Just reminds me of Jack from Mass Effect 2. She listed off her biggest crimes and included vandalism among them. When Shephard asks why vandalism was included, Jack said "That's what the Hanar call it when you crash that space station I mentioned into their moon. They really liked that moon."

Governments use gain of function research for "preparedness for pandemic infection." Do you think that they don't use live modeling for preparedness elsewhere?

There's an engineer here on YT, he went into some detail about these power relays and stations. It can take up to 2 years to get parts or replace equipment.

The reason they don't talk about it is because there's nothing they can do to prevent it from happening again.

I wouldn't be surprised if this was the work of internal whistleblowers. A bunch of high ranking engineers raise concerns about the safety of the substations if they were targetted by terrorists. The managerial types dismiss them. So they go ahead and damage a substation to prove their point.

You're correct. And dont call me Shirley.

People are googling the Metcalf sniper attacks

Ted would be proud of these opening paragraphs.

It must've been some "Killdozer" type of scenario. City messed with wrong citizen.

This event screams disgruntled employee to me. They seemed to know where everything is in the substation and how to disrupt communications to slow down first responders.

1:40 when a ghost roams around Dankula's set

It’s part and parcel of living in a big city

Beginning of the episode: What if it was a Psyop to beef up protection for electric substations? End of episode: Me and Dankula are the same dude.

The beginning speaking of oh the media would have a field day if infrastructure was attacked, but it’s odd that didn’t happen during this occasion made me think of that one undersea oil pipeline that mysteriously blew up and no investigation was ever done…

20:58 lol Uncle Ted.

1:40 Dankula has a ghost.

1:36 in kenya they destroyed some power grid infrastructure cuz it had some sort of oil in it which they used to fry chicken.

Down here in the hellscape known as former Yugoslavia, we had 1 substation break. This led to Croatia, Bosnia, Montenegro, Albania and parts of Serbia losing power completely, the first 4 electrical grids completely shut down nationally. pls don't fuck w the power grid its a bazillion degrees i need my air conditioning :(

Knockout power, communication and create a distraction. Meanwhile the rest of your teams proceeds with the heist downstream from the substation. Maybe whatever is stolen is top secret and must be covered up.

Dank vs his ghost is a better fight than Jake Paul vs Mike Tyson

Have you ever heard about Andrew Kehoe and the Bath Schoolhouse? It's one of the worst things, if not the worst thing, I've ever heard of. I would say it's the most significant atrocity committed by an individual that remains unknown to the vast majority of people.

1:34 “My BB!” 😱 The ghost of Mads Mikkelson will haunt you forever …

There are several attacks per year, but rarely this sophisticated. I remember this one every time I hear of a new one. It's quite concerning, especially if you work in any infrastructure-related industry, and know just how open it all is.

For me it sounds like someone who worked in that industry, maybe a technician, who is worried about the vulnerability and wanted to show the higher ups. He didn’t want to do lasting damage but enough to wake up the people who maybe ignored his concerns previously. Why else target specific components the way they did?

I live in San Jose practically right next to the power plant. They haven’t done much to buff their security since they added one guard who patrols the area in a car and they made the fence a little bigger, but just on one side going by on the freeway it’s still a chain-link fence.

The attacker is clearly one of those tunnel maintenance contractors. They would be familiar with how to disable transformers, where the cables were and how to properly cut those, have the proper equipment to open the manholes, and would be able to use the tunnels as an escape route to avoid authorities. The attacker was either a disgruntled employee who wanted to hurt the system and not people, or someone who was concerned with the lack of security around our infrastructure and wanted to send a warning.

It was a drunk Irish man thinking he was in Belfast

why is it that every time he says "why am i laughing? that's not funny", it is, in fact, actually hilarious?

3 melted Gypsies? Two words: Copper wire.

There was a similar attack on another power substation in North Carolina last year too. They never found the perpetrators either.

FLEX TAPE to the rescue... _That's a lot of damage._

Hypotheses for the excess of casings vs the number of shots impacting critical points on the infrastructure. The casings found were not from the actual rifle used but rather decoys collected from other guns and left at the scene to confuse forensics.

Impossible mode: now do one called "The Biggest Terrorist Attack You're Not Allowed To Talk About" and discuss the USS Liberty.

I haven't even watched the video and i already know what its about. I used to make long winded conspiracy theories about this incident specifically because of how mysterious it was.

my friend from the UK told me about a few bombings done by anarcho primtivists that happened on the power grid near where she lives in the countryside, a few power cuts happened in her area because of that, and it was never reported by the media for some reason.

Now that's how you make a complaint to your service provider 😂

I think the whole point of it was to get congress to accept that "the grid isn't adequately protected" and act upon that. Glowies gonna glow.

I can add a few things here, but I did sign an NDA before I left a phone company a few years ago, so, yeah. 1. Manhole lids are heavy. But not that heavy. I'm 6'1" and 130lbs, opened regular lids all day everyday with just a simple manhole hook. In my 14 years experience, I can remember two lids that were super-heavy. I used the truck to lift them. They weren't special, or covering anything special, just old remnants of the past that were never upgraded. 2. Knowledge of vital cables/cable routes/splices only comes from insider information. Power guys don't know vital/vulnerable places in Telco facilities, and Telco guys don't know the same for Power stuff. 3. Actual Power company and Telco company guys don't really get along very well. Power lineman call Telco lineman slurs like "halfway lineman" because they don't climb the whole pole, or work the high voltage stuff. It's an ego thing. I can remember one single time I worked alongside Power linemen in my career. Typically, Power did their work and moved out of the way, then Cable (If they even showed up), then Telco. 4. Sub-contractors, on the other hand, worked with either Power, Cable or Telco on a regular basis. Their plats, or prints (engineering drawings) were fairly accurate, showing most of, if not all the information I was given for a specific task. 5. All Telco guys are genuine red-necks. I've worked with them all. The northeners, the southeners, white, black, you name it. If you were in construction in the phone company, you're a redneck. I helped a co-worker do an engine swap in his backyard under a couple trees. Certified redneck. 6. At&t was bought up by Southwestern Bell. They adopted the at&t name, and started buying up all the baby-bells. They didn't treat people very nice. When they bought Bellsouth, we had around 600 or so Outside Plant Techs in Florida. In Texas, at that same time, they had 60. 60 people to cover the state of Texas. Lots of layoffs happened. 7. Every single person in Telco Plant construction is certified in M.O.T. road setups. i.e. lane closures for entering manholes or working in a roadway. And so, I would assume the sub-contractors would be also. Out of service cut arounds require very specific permits/scheduled night shifts, bla bla bla. Lots of notices to affected customers... But the only people that would notice an out of schedule manhole opening at 1am would be the few employees left that might be passing by. They would take notice because "Thats MY job!" Hope this helps your mystery case, brb FBI knocking on my door lol.

The Count has spoken and we shall listen

The biggest terror attack *they dont want you to know of* 😅

The last time i came so early my gf was rather disappointed

It was the work of a known mercenary and terrorist aligned individual named Samuel Hyde

1:40 Nonchalant lmao 🤣

I have been waiting for ages for that foetus to fall off the shelf😂. 1:43

I saw this story on an a civil engineer channel I watch. That power station was a critical one because it killed power in 2 directions ( couldn’t be rerouted like most others) . It had to be someone who was a lineman or knew how that particular part of the grid was engineered.

The three gypsies thing happened to me but it was a raccoon (I think) (there wasn’t much left to try to figure it out)

I remember in I think 2019 when a friend told me that a nuclear research reactor in the US was infiltrated and raided by armed men who tied up guards and workers and left with a bunch of data without firing a shot. I remember a news article about it at the time but it's vanished.

I think I actually have heard about this one but only because we had a lecture in college about the grid and how laughably bad "renewables" are from a physics professor. Interesting that the media doesn't ever talk about how our energy grid was almost taken down and how easy it would be.

I like your funny words Scottish man

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as a german i have to say that with robert habeck (green party) as our minister for economic affairs and climate action (the dude is a childrens book author and wrote a childrens book about "how romantic a total blackout is, btw) its only a question of time till this happens, no terrorist needed

Looks like the ghosts of Dank’s ancestors have inhabited his office.

dank has a ghost or the government spy slipped while listening in with his ear against the glass cup lol