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Tony Bandiera Jr
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From: Moreland Idaho
Registered: Apr 2004
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posted 08-17-2012 04:44 PM
And now Carmike Theatres gets a bomb threat:
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Bomb threat to Carmike Cinemas chain over 'Expendables 2' prompts police searches nationwide
WLEX
Carmike Cinemas in Lexington, Kentucky, were closed briefly due to a bomb threat Friday, but police gave the all-clear after a search turned up no explosives.
By NBC News staff
Law enforcement agencies across the country are responding to a bomb threat aimed at Columbus, Ga.-based Carmike Cinemas, which has 236 theaters in 35 states.
The threat was aimed at all the theaters showing "The Expendables 2," Carmike spokesman Terrell Mayton told NBC News.
The threat was left in a phone message at the Carmike Cinema's corporate office Friday morning by a person identfying himself as a theater vendor, Mayton said.
The theater chain swiftly coordinated with local law-enforcement agencies, he said. None of the theaters was open for the day yet and heightened security measures will remain in place as they show movies, Mayton said.
"We're getting lots of calls and emails of 'all-clear,'" he said.
The Wilmington, N.C., Police Department cleared the scene on Cinema Drive after investigating a bomb threat, NBC station WECT reported. Officers walked through the building with employees, looking for anything suspicious. They did not find anything and reopened a road shut down during the investigation.
“Really the only prudent thing is to do the search. …Nothing was found,” police spokeswoman Lucy Crockett told the Wilmington Star News.
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Bomb-sniffing dogs searched the Carmike theaters in Lexington, Ky., but no explosives were found, NBC station WLEX confirmed.
NBCChicago.com showed aerial video of law enforcement agencies setting up outside a theater in Morris, Ill., southwest of Chicago.
On Thursday, Columbus police arrested an armed man who tried to sneak into a Carmike Cinemas theater pre-screening of “Expendables 2.” Joshua L. Vardeman, 23, faces three misdemeanor charges, according to the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer.
A federal investigator told NBC News the gunman and the bomb threat appear unrelated.
“Expendables 2,” which opened Friday, Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger star in a sequel about bad-ass geezers with Dolph Lundgren, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Chuck Norris, Jet Li, Jason Statham, Randy Couture, Terry Crews and Bruce Willis. In this one, the crew reunites for what they think is an easy paycheck, but when one of the team is murdered on the job, the quest for revenge puts them deep in enemy territory.
Review: “The Expendables 2”
This story includes reporting by NBC News' chief justice correspondent Pete Williams and senior writer Jim Gold.
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Scott Norwood
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From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas)
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 08-23-2012 01:53 PM
I missed the last piece of this thread about the bomb threat.
Regarding telephone traceability: caller ID is not the same thing as ANI (automatic number identification). While it is possible to have caller ID display blocked for outgoing calls, ANI (which is used for billing, call tracing, and other internal telephone-company purposes) cannot be disabled. Caller ID information is also spoofable (and therefore not trustworthy for police purposes), while ANI is not (in theory, at least).
Also, disposable cell phones are not as anonymous as one might think. If someone buys the phone with cash, does not use a credit card to add extra time to it (ever), and only calls one number with it (ever), then these make for a reasonably anonymous means of communication. But if a credit card is involved anywhere in the purchasing process or if the user makes calls to several numbers, it is likely that the user can be traced. The call record makes the process surprisingly easy: if I call my workplace, my home voicemail, my parents' house, and my dentist's office from one telephone number, it would be fairly easy to trace that telephone back to me (how many other people would ever call that same set of numbers?). I don't remember if disposable cell phones contain GPS receivers, but, even without them, it would also be fairly trivial to narrow down the location of the phone when it is in use.
Bottom line: use payphones in public places with significant foot traffic (airports, train stations, busy streets, etc.) for making semi-anonymous calls. A VOIP circuit tunneled through several networks in multiple countries would probably work reasonably well, too. If you have the money to buy a separate disposable cell phone for each number that you want to call, don't use it in or near your home or workplace, and keep the phone turned off when not actively using it, that would be another option.
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