# BREAKING NEWS: Power outage in NYC **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 14, 2019, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-news-power-outage-in-nyc/837045 "2019-07-14T00:20:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2019, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-news-power-outage-in-nyc/837045/21 "2019-07-15T14:59:36Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > Exactly what I was thinking. Has the _Times_ sent a reporter around to Tiffany’s? What is my perfect crime? I break into Tiffany’s during a power outage that I cause by shorting out a transformer. Do I go for the vault? No, I go for the chandelier, it’s priceless. As I’m taking it down, a woman catches me. She tells me to stop. It’s her father’s business; she’s Tiffany. I say no. We make love all night. In the morning the cops come, and I escape in one of their uniforms. I tell her to meet me in Mexico, but I go to Canada - I don’t trust her. Besides, I like the cold. Thirty years later, I get a postcard: I have a son, and he’s the chief of police. This is where the story gets interesting. I tell Tiffany to meet me in Paris, by the Trocadéro. She’s been waiting for me all these years, she’s never taken another lover. I don’t care. I don’t show up. I go to Berlin. That’s where I stashed the chandelier. ---
**Author:** ![Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mundane_super_hero/32/6304_2.png) [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mundane_Super_Hero)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2019, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-news-power-outage-in-nyc/837045/22 "2019-07-15T15:09:19Z")
> [@control-z](#): > > What is my perfect crime? I break into Tiffany’s during a power outage that I cause by shorting out a transformer. Do I go for the vault? No, I go for the chandelier, it’s priceless. As I’m taking it down, a woman catches me. She tells me to stop. It’s her father’s business; she’s Tiffany. I say no. We make love all night. In the morning the cops come, and I escape in one of their uniforms. I tell her to meet me in Mexico, but I go to Canada - I don’t trust her. Besides, I like the cold. Thirty years later, I get a postcard: I have a son, and he’s the chief of police. This is where the story gets interesting. I tell Tiffany to meet me in Paris, by the Trocadéro. She’s been waiting for me all these years, she’s never taken another lover. I don’t care. I don’t show up. I go to Berlin. That’s where I stashed the chandelier. But she finds that you were there by using the only search engine at the time that had both an advanced random algorithm as well as spending money on the best and finest back-up generators money could buy. It’s little known and never used, so there was absolutely no chance that the servers would crash. When you arrive, she is already there waiting… and she has it stashed someplace else. She calls that move… the “Chandelier-BING”… ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2019, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-news-power-outage-in-nyc/837045/23 "2019-07-15T15:10:58Z")
> [@nightshadea](#): > > im wondering if it wasnt intentional seeing the date it happened on… Ok, help me out. what’s the significance of July 13th? ---
**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2019, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-news-power-outage-in-nyc/837045/24 "2019-07-15T15:15:21Z")
> [@Spiderman](#): > > First, let me state that “BREAKING NEWS” is used far too often & for stuff that, IMHO, doesn’t really deserve that title. Last week, we had a “BREAKING NEWS” alert for a protest march. :rolleyes: > > That being said, 73,000 customers in an outage _not_ caused by weather is a large outage, especially when you consider that many of those customers are or are in high rise buildings, including many hotels & commercial entities like restaurants & retail/souvenir shops in a big tourist area so the actual number of people impacted is much higher. It also affected three separate transit agencies: LIRR, MTA, & NJT. > > Has Times Square gone dark other than 1977, 2003, & last night? The Broadway theaters including the ones in Times Sq metaphorically “went dark” on Oct 28 and 29 2012 due to Hurricane Sandy; all performances were cancelled. However the area didn’t lose power even though large stretches of Manhattan less than a mile away did, 30th St and further south. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2019, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-news-power-outage-in-nyc/837045/25 "2019-07-15T15:49:25Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > Ok, help me out. what’s the significance of July 13th? See post #3 in this thread. > **[New York City blackout of 1977](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_blackout_of_1977)** > > The New York City blackout of 1977 was an electricity blackout that affected most of New York City on July 13–14, 1977. The only unaffected neighborhoods in the city were in southern Queens (including neighborhoods of the Rockaways), which were part of the Long Island Lighting Company system, as well as the Pratt Institute campus in Brooklyn, and a few other large apartment and commercial complexes that operated their own power generators. > Unlike other blackouts that affected the region, namel... ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2019, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-news-power-outage-in-nyc/837045/26 "2019-07-15T15:59:19Z")
> [@gkster](#): > > The Broadway theaters including the ones in Times Sq metaphorically “went dark” on Oct 28 and 29 2012 due to Hurricane Sandy; all performances were cancelled. However the area didn’t lose power even though large stretches of Manhattan less than a mile away did, 30th St and further south. Broadway theatres also “went dark” on September 11 & 12, 2001. For one obvious reason. And they were the first to get back to business on September 13, 2001. Kudos to the casts of the shows like “Dear Evan Hanson” and “Come From Away” who came outside and sang to the masses during the blackout. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-news-power-outage-in-nyc/837045.md?page=1)