# WTC: re Sept.22 rumors--what potential targets are there out West?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 21, 2001, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtc-re-sept-22-rumors-what-potential-targets-are-there-out-west/83073 "2001-09-21T19:34:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2001, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtc-re-sept-22-rumors-what-potential-targets-are-there-out-west/83073/41 "2001-09-24T20:16:43Z")

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> \*Originally posted by handy \*  
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> In Pacific Grove, maybe they could attack the Butterfly Tree Grove. \*\*

Oh my God! The Butterfly Parade is coming up, a week from Saturday!! 🙂

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**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2001, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtc-re-sept-22-rumors-what-potential-targets-are-there-out-west/83073/42 "2001-09-24T20:27:42Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Jeff Olsen \*  
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> > \*Originally posted by TV time \*
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> > A wacko with some chemical agent could fly along the Continental Divide and potentially wipe out hundreds of thousands of people immediately and then devastate the majority of the livestock and farming industries of the country. Thus starving much of America and for that matter the world.
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> > It would also wipe out a number of America’s major brewerys.
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> > Mods: feel free to knock this off the screen. In my mind this is far too doable. (Binny isn’t a doper is he?) \*\*
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> Sounds like our Government had the same idea as you; all crop dusters have been grounded. \*\*

IMHO, if a wacko terrorist had access to chemical or biological agents, he would’ve used them already. Consider: you could either train suicide pilots, get them through airport security, hijack a plane, etc; or you could just release an aerosol spray of anthrax into the air. Which would you pick first, if you had a choice? Binny went with the most logistically difficult plan possible; ergo, he had no choice. Ergo, relax.

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