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“I went to a local High School one day to do some work there. I couldn’t get in because of a bomb threat.

They took all of the kids out of the school and gathered them in the stands at the football field.

Dumbest thing I ever saw.

Any idiot could put a bomb in the football stands, call in a bomb threat and get every kid in the school with one blast.”

If the wannabe killers have prior knowledge of how stupid stuff like this happens, re herding innocents into an outdoor space. They can become snipers, position themselves in safe firing positions, create a false alarm in the school, and then take out the innocents from a distance after they are herd into an open area as snipers.

I believe that Travis has addressed that scary reality before.

The May before 9/11, I flew UAL into LAX for some consulting. As we were deplaning and heading to the baggage area, the PA system came on and told us to exit the building and get into the street. It was a bomb threat at the baggage area.

In minutes there were thousands of us from various flights that had landed milling around the sidewalk and street outside the baggage area.

I pulled my cell phone out of my briefcase and called the rental car agency, where I had a rental waiting for me. They said they couldn’t get there due to the mass of people.

We made arrangements for me to walk about a 1/4 of a mile and get away from the mass of people. I did and a young man from the rental agency picked me up and took me to their office.

The people in the office took my luggage tickets and faxed them to the UAL Baggage office, telling them to bring my luggage to their office so they could deliver it to my hotel.

I only had my briefcase, cell phone and I was wearing shorts and a polo shirt. I had a formal dinner presentation that evening at the hotel where I was staying.

A few minutes before my presentation, the rental car agency called and said I would not be getting my luggage until about midnight as UAL was swamped.

So I made a formal presentation in my shorts/polo shirt/Crocs and no slides as they and my projector were with my luggage at LAX. My audience was sympathetic and understood.

Shortly after midnight, my luggage with my clothes, BP medicine, slide projector arrived.

On my way home good old UAL did it again re seating arrangements. They had me on a requested aisle seat. When I walked back to my seat, there two really big, Samoa Hopeful Raider tryouters taking up the entire row.

The Flight attendant said I had to work it out. I said that I would be up front in her seat. She rang for the pilot. He came back and agreed with me. I apologized to the two embarassed Samoans and they apolozed to me. I sat on a Flight Attendant’s seat, and she sat up front in the cockpit for the short flight.

Even then flying had become a mess with over booking, late flights,delayed luggage and poor service.

I told my wife that I was quitting my consulting gig and why. After 9/11, my wife decided that I made the right decision.

I have had two flights since then. One for a funeral and one for wedding. The TSA thugs on both flights enforced my no fly decision.