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A Mysterious Force Has Been Blocking Car Key Fobs in This Small Ohio Town

posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday May 08 2019, @12:42AM   Printer-friendly
from the three-guesses-and-the-first-two-don't-count dept.

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for Runaway1956

For several weeks, citizens of North Olmsted, Ohio—a small town a few miles west of a NASA research center—have been plagued by a mysterious force that has blocked their garage openers and car key fobs from functioning. But after many attempts by amateur sleuths and expert technicians to determine the source of the vexation, the problem has been resolved.

According to the New York Times, North Olmsted officials first began receiving reports about the issue in late April. Since then more than a dozen residents of the town and the neighboring Fairview Park have told authorities about their inability to use garage door openers and key fobs.

Source: https://gizmodo.com/a-mysterious-force-has-been-blocking-car-key-fobs-in-th-1834551015

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  • (Score: 4, Funny) by PartTimeZombie on Wednesday May 08 2019, @01:25AM (4 children)

    by PartTimeZombie (4827) on Wednesday May 08 2019, @01:25AM (#840560)

    Thanks for ruining it for me.

    One day it really will be aliens.

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  • (Score: 3, Touché) by Immerman on Wednesday May 08 2019, @01:39AM (1 child)

    by Immerman (3985) on Wednesday May 08 2019, @01:39AM (#840568)

    Oh it was, it was. We DNA-based life forms have just been here so long that we like to pretend we're natives.

    • (Score: 3, Funny) by PartTimeZombie on Wednesday May 08 2019, @02:40AM

      by PartTimeZombie (4827) on Wednesday May 08 2019, @02:40AM (#840592)

      I have no idea how to mod that. Funny? Sure, but it's probably true, so it should be informative really.

      Hmm, maybe +1 Confusing.

      Yeah, that works.

      You're welcome.

  • (Score: 2) by Username on Wednesday May 08 2019, @11:20AM

    by Username (4557) on Wednesday May 08 2019, @11:20AM (#840719)

    Who said he wasn't an alien?

  • (Score: 2) by edIII on Wednesday May 08 2019, @07:59PM

    by edIII (791) on Wednesday May 08 2019, @07:59PM (#840964)

    Just an open question here...... how many alien probes does it take before a human reliably accepts commands from their gently probing overlords?

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