I was able to find some info on the blimp...
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"Others opposed the site out of concern the blimp would detract from their view of the Huachuca Mountains, lower property values or result in official snooping into their private lives. We've all gotten pretty used to seeing it. We don't even notice it anymore."
Heh, funny.
I'll give a little background where I come from.
Being raised around the weirdest of the weird (in southern CA), I've developed an interest in keeping track of things like UFO cults, privacy abuse, government corruption, freedoms being taken away for the sake of 'security' etc.
I guess you could say it's a hobby of mine.
Here are some of the things that happen in a typical year where I lived. Most of them within a few miles of my house.
Suicide Cults
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"The cult members committed suicide over a few days in late March
1997. They died in shifts, with some members helping others take a lethal cocktail of phenobarbital and vodka before downing their own doses of the fatal mixture. Heaven's Gate members believed that Hale-Bopp, an unusually bright comet, was the sign that they were supposed to shed their earthly bodies (or "containers") and join a spacecraft traveling behind the comet that would take them to a higher plane of existence".
Insane Meth Users
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"Shawn Nelson, a 35 year-old plumber from Clairemont, California, emerged from an eighteen foot mine shaft he had dug beneath his backyard in search for gold. An ex-soldier and methamphetamine abuser, he stole a tank from a nearby National Guard armory and went on a rampage through the residential streets of his neighborhood, crushing cars and lampposts until the cops took him down".
Jet Crashes
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"PSA Flight 182 collided mid-air with a private plane over North Park and crashed into homes below. All 137 onboard were killed on impact along with seven people on the ground".
Nuclear Threats
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"police arrested a man who had threatened to shoot up the San Onofre Nuclear Power Station and his former coworkers etc. at the plant. He had an arsenal of almost 300 weapons, including illegal assault rifles, 5,000 rounds of ammunition, an antitank rocket launcher, four live hand grenades, tear gas, survivalist material, etc. etc.."
Crazy Disgruntled Employees
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"Postal worker John Merlin Taylor of Escondido, Calif., shoots and kills his wife at their home, then drives to the Orange Glen post office, where he shoots and kills two colleagues and wounds another before killing himself".
Fast Food Dangers
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"An unemployed security guard armed with three guns strode into a McDonalds's restaurant in this town on the Mexican border today and killed 20 people and wounded 16 others before a police sharpshooter shot him dead".
Bad Cops, Bad Cops, Watcha Gonna Do?
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"Cara Knott was a young lady that was pulled over by a veteran CHP officer in San Diego, forced to drive down a secluded road and was murdered by the CHP (California Highway Patrol) officer".
Wacky Football Stars
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"Do you think O.J. did it?"
I'm sure the readers here that live in San Diego can add an encyclopedia of stories to this. What can I say? These people are my neighbors!
Mike