Posted on 02/01/2007 1:06:07 PM PST by struggle
After 9/11 everyone had their flags at half mast (by presidential "orders" or whatever in observance of 9/11). I kept driving past a KFC joint that had theirs at full mast. After a few days and getting pissed every time I went passed it, I went in and asked them about it. It seemed to be a ME family running it (mom with headscarf and robe, etc.), In broken english they said the pulley was broken and couldn't come down.
I went around to the side (and luckily out of view) to see if I could "fix" it. I guess I had the magic touch as I pulled on the rope easily put it at half mast. (I was in a hurry so did not run it all the way down and back up again!).
I went home and called the local police of what had happened in case they might be interested. (They said they would "look into it".)
My other tagline is "Ever Vigilant, Never Fearful".
Yes, it occurred to me. I wrote as much.
And when you report that an alien spacecraft landed in your back yard, emitted a blue beam and abducted all the 27 cats in your house, do you expect them to come and investigate? There's a difference between being alert and being paranoid.
>And when you report that an alien spacecraft landed in your back yard, emitted a blue beam and abducted all the 27 cats in your house, do you expect them to come and investigate? There's a difference between being alert and being paranoid.
Oh, Lord. Please stop.
Dude, you're having a hard time following this aren't you? I'm the one who sees several men purchasing cell phones as nothing out of the ordinary. It's others here who see several men purchasing cell phones and think they are buying IED triggers and rush off to call the FBI!
I am NOT a DUDE and you're the silly poster who continues to say that the FBI tosses tips of this sort into the trash and you are dead wrong.
Get real!
The poster is obtuse and dead wrong.
YOU did the right thing!
Agreed, we do not really know what is going on.
The authorities can not tell us what is going on without risking giving away information that may be used against the terrorists.
All my thoughts expressed on this site are based on news reports. News reports are not very accurate. They are shaded, opinionated, and deceptive.
My house is in Laurel, MD. The 9/11 terrorists stayed in two motel/hotels here. You can walk through the woods around my house right up to the back of one of those hotels (about a quarter of a mile) the other hotel was about a quarter of a mile in the other direction.
I take nothing for granted and take notice of everything I can.
PS: Both of these hotels have been totally destroyed and other buildings have been built where they once were.
Gossiping about 13 Arabs buying phones? Do Mississippians honestly not know why they're the butt of everyones jokes?
ROFL Doesn't take much to get under your skin does it councilor?
Your logic is good.
Mohammed is a pig.
Is that KFC still there?
> Oh, Lord. Please stop.
So we should support the guy below in his efforts to inform the authorities about some terrorists? He's not paranoid, he's just "alert"?
Yes - but I haven't been in since.
Listen to this call and tell me I'm wrong again.
Are you and the caller the same person?
I'm not going to listen to anything such thing or view any link you provide.
I can see you're a poster who needs to think you're right, even when you're wrong.
I'll wager you're also a poster who needs to have the last word too, so have at it and thank you for bumping this thread.
"It's others here who see several men purchasing cell phones and think they are buying IED triggers and rush off to call the FBI!"
If the object of terrorists is to provoke terror, these folks who are panicing over something that past history says is benign are actually fostering terrorism, are they not ?
But wait ! THAT'S the plan, buy up hundreds of phones at different times around the country, and ship them overseas to make a buck ... then... when the time is right, buy the 6 you need for your nefarious plan and noone will notice !
Yeah, remember the old MASH episode where they play a practical joke on Hawkeye by making him think they were going to get him at any minute and they never did anything other than watch him get more and more paranoid?
But wait ! THAT'S the plan, buy up hundreds of phones at different times around the country, and ship them overseas to make a buck ... then... when the time is right, buy the 6 you need for your nefarious plan and noone will notice !
LOL. You got me there!
I think you've got a new tagline!
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