Posted on 06/04/2009 8:26:37 AM PDT by Dan Nunn
***A plane cleaner stashes a gun somewhere in the plane..perps pick it up. Bang Bang.***
Remember all those boxcutters found stashed on other planes after 9-11?
Wow, based on that story, this was pretty darned deliberate.
Well, it is PA.
Mensies.
Yep.
Nope. If you read the article, the reason they were caught was that a passenger was seen giving a bag to an employee, who then bypassed passenger security, who then gave the bag back to the passenger. If the article is accurate, this was a VERY deliberate attempt to get a pistol and ammo onto a plane.
It means all employees will now have to go through the same screening as non-employees.
"The key fact in this is that they were trying to bring aboard a GUN. Oh, and they are probably white, and pro-life, so they share responsibility for Dr. Tiller's murder. And probably they've always supported the Israeli occupation and voter ID acts in Georgia and elsewhere."
According to preliminary information from investigators, someone waiting for a flight saw another passenger hand a bag to a US Airways employee who may have been authorized to bypass the security screening line. The airline employee then handed the bag back to the second passenger, and the witness reported the incident to the TSA.
This was a blatant attempt to circumvent the TSA scrutinizing a bag that, the article implies, contained a gun and ammo. If that is true, this is very serious.
Wow. If that is the case then something was up. You still have to get the ammo on board though...why use an alternate means...just use the same event.
??? Something doesnt quite make sense.
JIM WEBB’S ASSISTANT TRAVELLING AGAIN?
I mean, Jim Webb’s assistant travelling again?
My inference from the article is that the gun and ammo were in the same bag, but the gun was not loaded.
Another TV Station doing yet another TSA hit story?
I wonder why they authorities had to smuggle a handgun abord the plane to arrest the two people. You'd think they would be allowed to carry weapons. :-)
The news source is Breaking News Online, which is now using Twitter.
Then we have a serious problem and I want to know the background of the individuals involved.
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(Thinking out loud) Ugh, has the door been opened?
LOL
Ignore the CAPS nanny’s.
You’d think their eyes were allergic to CAPS.
You’d think their brains had to work overtime to process CAPS.
When actually, they are just prissy about a social convention that’s consumed too many folks too unwilling to enjoy the precious little DIVERSITY available in text & screen based communications.
They COULD decide that CAPS = raised eyes or that
CAPS = a seductive raised tone or that
CAPS = a twinkly eye’d tease or that
CAPS = a firm assertiveness . . .
. . .
. . .
INSTEAD, they feel COMPELLED in a PRISSY SCREAM to rant about CAPS = yelling.
Welllll whoooop-T-Doo.
I prefer my own dictionary, thank you very much.
Sheesh.
[one of my peeves—I love CAPS with my screen 4 feet from my Laz-Y-Boy comfortable head and aging eyes]
When I was in high school, we would call someone who did something stoopid a twit. Who would a thunk that there would come a day when it would be cool to twit? :-)
I fly twice a month. In the past year, the only people that I have seen pulled aside for the head to toe frisk are either in wheelchairs with oxygen tanks, or walking with a limp or a cane due to an artificial joint. Over 55 years old, gray hair, harassed to the max. Then they are left alone to repack their suitcase and contort their limbs to get their shoes back on their feet.
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