911 Pager Stories

Anyone checked out the 9/11 Pager data on Wikileaks yet?

I must admit, I'm curious, so I downloaded the 27mb text file and did a quick grep on it for "WTC".

I then found an interesting personal message, so decided to grep for that and found the following piece of dialogue, if you can call it a dialogue. I've redacted some parts to protect identities, but the whole messages are available at Wikileaks.

2001-09-11 XX:XX:XX XXXX [XXXXXX] C  ALPHA  (14)GMA.  Xxxxxxx's father works in the WTC.  I may drive her home.  I'll keep you posted.  This is really f'd up.
2001-09-11 XX:XX:XX XXXX [XXXXXX] C  ALPHA  (15)So that you know Xxxxxxx heard from her dad.
2001-09-11 XX:XX:XX XXXX [XXXXXX] C  ALPHA  (16)80-CALL XXXXXX WHEN YOU GET A CHANCE AT XXX-XXX-XXXX.
2001-09-11 XX:XX:XX XXXX [XXXXXX] C  ALPHA  (17)How are you doing? Did Xxxxxx hear from his Dad? Tom 884-2168
2001-09-11 XX:XX:XX XXXX [XXXXXX] C  ALPHA  (18)81-I AM HOME SAFE. CALL ME LATER. -XXXXX.
2001-09-11 XX:XX:XX XXXX [XXXXXX] C  ALPHA  (19)82-I GOT IN TOUCH W/ XXXXXXX, FINALLY. SHE'S OKAY. SHE WAS ON THE TRAIN AT THE WALL ST STOP WHEN THE EXPLOSION HAPPENED. XXXXXX.

A small personal story in the midst of a great tragedy, overlooked by the eyes of the world.

I'm sure there's more to dialogue missing from this one, but it's just a taster of what is to come I'm sure when they've finished data-mining and crunching it.

It would be interesting if someone stumbled across messages regarding WTC7, which was pulled collapsed at 5:21pm EST. ;)

GCRK67: Bridge 148 - Old Fishery Lane - Grand Union Series

Found on 2009-11-21 at 20:00:00
Placed by: Alibags
Size: Small (Difficulty: 1.5 / Terrain: 1)
Location: South East England, United Kingdom
Geocaching.com: GCRK67

[font=Trebuchet Ms]Nice camo job!

[b]Mr Ben[/b] had already laid his hand on this cache before I even knew what was happening. I've seen one hidden like this before-- actually I think it was another one of your hides!

Saw [i]Oh England My Lionheart TB[/i], it is with Mr Ben now. Last cacher needs to log out the other TB!

TFTC![font=Verdana]

GCRK6B: Boxmoor - Grand Union Series

Found on 2009-11-21 at 20:00:00
Placed by: Alibags
Size: Small (Difficulty: 1.5 / Terrain: 1)
Location: South East England, United Kingdom
Geocaching.com: GCRK6B

[font=Trebuchet Ms]Too easy!

As [b]Mr Ben[/b] read out the cache description I pointed and said, "try that", there it was!

This was the last dry cache we did before it started to pour. I took a picture from the bridge. Saw Romin Ruari, Mr Ben has him now.[font=Verdana]

GCRZBH: Magic Roundabout Mayhem Mk 2 (Herts)

Found on 2009-11-21 at 20:00:00
Placed by: NickPick
Size: Micro (Difficulty: 1 / Terrain: 1)
Location: Eastern England, United Kingdom
Geocaching.com: GCRZBH

[font=Trebuchet Ms]Ha ha [b]Mr Ben[/b] was convinced I had the wrong spot but after a bit of fumbling around I laid my fingers on the cache.

I've seen a funny German joke about this roundabout(s), I can't paste it here, too big, and to translate it doesn't quite do it justice but the punchline is basically something like "Der spinnen Englisch".

In German, "spinnen" naturally translates as spinning (as in spinning around a roundabout?) but it's also used as slang for crazy/mad. [:I][font=Verdana]

GCTKN3: Motorway Mayhem M25 J19

Found on 2009-11-21 at 20:00:00
Placed by: Alibags
Size: Small (Difficulty: 1 / Terrain: 1.5)
Location: Eastern England, United Kingdom
Geocaching.com: GCTKN3

[font=Trebuchet Ms]Found easily enough with Mr Ben.

Nice midsize container, shame that the swag seems to be plundered from here, and shame about the memorial too. Quite slippy round here this time of year, glad I didn't fall in.

TFTC![font=Verdana]

GC1J594: Hemel Hempstead Plan B

Found on 2009-11-21 at 20:00:00
Placed by: Alibags
Size: Micro (Difficulty: 1.5 / Terrain: 1.5)
Location: South East England, United Kingdom
Geocaching.com: GC1J594

[font=Trebuchet Ms]Yep. Still pouring with rain.

[b]Mr Ben[/b] found very easily, extracting the log was a little bit trickier. At least in the rain, even if the roamers do take an interest in what you're doing they don't care to stick around and watch.[font=Verdana]

GC211PH: Gade Race

Found on 2009-11-21 at 20:00:00
Placed by: philipnros
Size: Micro (Difficulty: 1.5 / Terrain: 1.5)
Location: Eastern England, United Kingdom
Geocaching.com: GC211PH

[font=Trebuchet Ms]Last one of the day with [b]Mr Ben[/b].

A pleasant time discussing past caching adventures, significant others, careers, careers that could have been, politics, football...

Thoroughly enjoyable day of caching, blame me that we didn't do the nearby multi as well, just too wet, getting too dark and I was now too tired![font=Verdana]