Wrong Richard. You said it was necessarily tied to the building's power with no evidence whatsoever. That's what I disputed.
Straight from a pole to its own meter. Do you think the TSBD wanted to pay Hertz's electric bill?
Of course the TSBD would not want to pay the Hertz electric bill. But that adds absolutely no support to your implication that the sign had an independent power source. Talk about an assumption. Hertz could have contracted to pay the TSBD owner whatever the estimated monthly electrical cost of the sign. Look this is easy. Whether the sign had an independent link to power or received its power via the same source as the TSBD, the power to both would have gone off if there was an
external power outage to that location. I believe that is exactly what Tom concluded. Like the power going off to a city block. Can you compute that fact?
Now if we are narrowing things down to someone pulling a circuit switch inside the building, then of course it would be possible to cut the power to specific parts of the building without turning the sign off. In that situation, we are left to look to the specific facts to reach a conclusion. For example, if the claim is that the power was cut to specific elevators, we have multiple examples of those same elevators being in operation in the same time frame. Baker and Truly take the freight elevator. A freight elevator comes down to the first floor because we know Mooney takes it from the first floor to the second floor etc. Once the freight elevator reaches the second floor and those who work in the building get out, Mooney can no longer operate it. He attributes this to a power outage but it is just as plausible that he simply can't figure out the quirks of this elevator once those who work in the building exit. It is not a normal passenger elevator that entails just pushing a button. It is an old freight elevator in a warehouse. But the outage premise becomes even more absurd if attributed to some type of planned conspiracy event which must entail a conspirator hanging around in the TSBD long after the DPD have entered the building search for the assassin. This person would be manipulating the internal circuit boxes at great risk for no apparent reason instead of doing the logical thing and making tracks. It just doesn't add up as part of a conspiracy narrative. If you are not alleging the power outage was part of any planned conspiracy, then it doesn't matter much whether it happened or not. If you want to entertain this as a random outage that had no direct connection to the assassination, then it is unimportant except as a matter of historical curiosity.
