My national generator has revised its contingency plans to cater for deliberate sabotage of sub stations and / or overhead transmission lines.

It is felt that an idiot (or two) might want to "prove" that Y2K caused a blackout at the year end, and thus resort to blowing something up, in order to be proven correct.

It shows to go, it takes all types to make a world.

James Prosser

-- Anonymous, August 30, 1999

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Hi James,

There are contingency plans here in the US for exactly the same sort of thing.

-- Anonymous, August 30, 1999

I don't know if you guys heard about this, but one of our local boys here (New West Minister, B.C.) was arrested a few weeks back because he planned to bomb the Alaskan oil pipeline. He planned to buy up oil stocks and cash in when the oil shortage caused the stock prices to overvalue it. He was going to have the bomb go off on New Years so people would think it was Y2K related (he was caught in New Mexico while trying to buy the explosives). Don't pretend that this guy is alone in trying to sabotage things during Y2K.

I've also read that Osama Bin Laden (the FBI just recentely reported this) has 20 nuclear weapons in his arsenal now; not to mention the bio/chemical weapons. And also Russia and China have said that they would use Y2K disruptions to their advantage to start a war with their 'enemies'.

I used to worry about Y2K problems, but I have contigency plans in place for that (and no I'm not hiding in a bomb shelter all winter, just food and water supplies) but I don't think anyone is ready for possible disruptions that 'people' can implement. And let's not forget about every hacker worth his salt has got a good virus or two on the way..

Can anyone tell that I read and watch too much news?

-- Anonymous, August 30, 1999