<story><title>ATT services down due to bombing in Nashville</title><url>https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/local/2020/12/25/att-outage-internet-down-hours-after-nashville-explosion/4045278001/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>orblivion</author><text>Interesting things to consider.&lt;p&gt;1) I heard something about &amp;quot;fake reports&amp;quot; about gunshots. But maybe the perp shot off some guns just to get the cops to show up?&lt;p&gt;2) This woman stuck around for 15 minutes or a half hour while this thing was saying &amp;quot;you need to evacuate, this has a bomb&amp;quot;???&lt;p&gt;3) This woman recalls a male voice but the news played a female voice. This goes to show how bad our memories are!</text></item><item><author>drtillberg</author><text>Local TV News managed to interview a neighbor from directly across the street where the explosion occurred[1].&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=iag6cTWpgq8&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=iag6cTWpgq8&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>mintplant</author><text>Reportedly, there was a visible countdown timer on the vehicle that exploded, and an audible warning played for 15-20 minutes prior to the blast:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=5nygTJeu9fU&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=5nygTJeu9fU&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>doctorshady</author><text>Maybe she was right, and there were two voices? The female announcement sounds like it was edited. Badly. This might explain the strange verbiage as well (&amp;quot;All buildings&amp;quot; stands out. That particularly phrase, with its inflection, sounds like it originally came from the end of a sentence too). I&amp;#x27;ve heard other people say it sounds like the same voice used by the city during the summer protests or something along those lines.&lt;p&gt;For the purposes of arguing, let&amp;#x27;s say someone got ahold of some municipal evacuation recordings and chopped them up for this. It&amp;#x27;s not likely they had enough phrases to warn people a bomb would be going off in specifically fifteen minutes.&lt;p&gt;EDIT: For anyone curious about other instances of bad edits, listen to the word &amp;quot;this&amp;quot;; there&amp;#x27;s another word before that, and it was cut off: &amp;quot;thi-this area must be evacuated now&amp;quot;. Also, &amp;quot;if you can hear this message, &amp;lt;unnatural pause&amp;gt; evacuate now.&amp;quot; It&amp;#x27;s not likely any professional voiceover person would announce this way, nor would anyone who&amp;#x27;s paid attention to basic edits before consider this passable.&lt;p&gt;If this is all true, I guess the next question to ask is who would have access to those announcements, and who would think to use them? Most people would probably just use some text-to-speech thing unless it was easy&amp;#x2F;they had good reason. I&amp;#x27;m probably overthinking this, though.</text></comment>
<story><title>ATT services down due to bombing in Nashville</title><url>https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/local/2020/12/25/att-outage-internet-down-hours-after-nashville-explosion/4045278001/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>orblivion</author><text>Interesting things to consider.&lt;p&gt;1) I heard something about &amp;quot;fake reports&amp;quot; about gunshots. But maybe the perp shot off some guns just to get the cops to show up?&lt;p&gt;2) This woman stuck around for 15 minutes or a half hour while this thing was saying &amp;quot;you need to evacuate, this has a bomb&amp;quot;???&lt;p&gt;3) This woman recalls a male voice but the news played a female voice. This goes to show how bad our memories are!</text></item><item><author>drtillberg</author><text>Local TV News managed to interview a neighbor from directly across the street where the explosion occurred[1].&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=iag6cTWpgq8&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=iag6cTWpgq8&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>mintplant</author><text>Reportedly, there was a visible countdown timer on the vehicle that exploded, and an audible warning played for 15-20 minutes prior to the blast:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=5nygTJeu9fU&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=5nygTJeu9fU&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>macintux</author><text>&amp;gt; This woman stuck around for 15 minutes or a half hour while this thing was saying &amp;quot;you need to evacuate, this has a bomb&amp;quot;???&lt;p&gt;Watching a video, the audio was so surreal I had to ask myself how I would respond if I heard that without any clue where it was coming from.&lt;p&gt;Hopefully I never find out, but I guess now I&amp;#x27;m a bit more mentally prepared to not linger.</text></comment>