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
(Score: 3, Touché) by Thexalon on Wednesday May 08 2019, @05:40PM
Well, for the conspiracy-minded, this did all take place no more than about 3000 feet from the NASA Glenn Research Center, so maybe the random inventor dude was really just a scapegoat and the real problem was secret alien research stuff.
Or, you know, somebody playing around with radio transmitters and not knowing that what he was doing was causing a problem. But the alien theory is more fun.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.