I don’t think the jihadis are using some 1930s movie serial energy beam to disable ferry boat controls. Either it’s poor maintenence or pilot error or both. There are layoffs coming in the Apple and this may be someone’s idea of resistance.
Report: Staten Island Ferry on terror hit list
Staten Island’s iconic Ferry may have been in the cross-hairs of Times Square
terror suspect Faisal Shahzad.
A hand-drawn map of the ferry — as well as the nearby Bowling Green subway
station and the Lexington Avenue lines that serve it — was found on a Metro-
North train heading for Connecticut, according to a television report. The map
was believed to be the work of Shahzad, who lives in the Nutmeg State.
The ferry’s high-recognition value makes it a tempting target for would-be
terrorists. In the aftermath of 9/11, the U.S. Coast Guard began monitoring the
threat level, and dogs were employed to sniff for bombs.
As soon as we got to the port it just slammed right into the dock and pushed
everybody back. It was chaos, pandemonium. It was something like I’ve never
been through in my life,” ferry passenger Alex Gonzalez told NY1.
Damage control mode for Obama, news is reporting the ‘story will be it was a
steering issue, but CNN reported it is a ‘throttle issue’....
But keep up with the ‘minimalist’ theory it works for some..