Outage at Lady Liberty Sends Twitter in Conspiracy Theory Frenzy

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By Barbara Kollmeyer | 5:55 am, March 8, 2017

Let symbolism ring!

Images of a darkened Statue of Liberty triggered an outpouring of metaphors and a conspiracy theory or two across social media on Tuesday evening. That’s after the lights went out for a couple of hours on the colossal and most famous American statue, located in New York’s Harbor.

“A portion of the lighting system that illuminates the Statue of Liberty experienced a temporary, unplanned outage tonight,” National Park Service spokesman Jerry Willis told CBS2 in a statement Tuesday. He said the official cause will be determined when workers return Wednesday.

But this was the NPS’s theory, and it looked fairly benign:

“Some lights on the Statue were temporarily off tonight. Likely related to new emergency generator/Hurricane Sandy recovery project work” wrote @StatueEllisNPS on Twitter.

Still, Twitter images of the darkened 305-foot-tall Lady Liberty were just a little unsettling:

Some said the timing was too perfect, given that Wednesday is International Women’s Day. It’s being marked by “A Day Without A Woman” — the global event urging women to not work and not shop as a sign of solidarity against oppression and violence against women:
There were other thinly veiled references to unhappiness surrounding the current U.S. administration:

But not everyone agreed with those views: 
Thankfully, the cloak of darkness for the Statue of Liberty did come to an end around midnight, according to the BBC, though this may be one for the grandkids:

This article was originally published on Marketwatch.

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