Breaking news - Skyway Bridge closed in both directions (St. Petersburg, FL)

Bay News 9 ^ | 7-1-2002 | Bay News 9

[ladyinred]

What is it with Florida anyway?
I guess NON Americans like the weather huh?

[Focault's Pendulum]

Yeah, awful rough to try to land a plane on that bridge when there's no traffic on it...

That's because you have to give the sailboats the right of way.

[SES1066]

Bridge has reopened to all traffic. One more win for the idiots since the Fl. Highway Patrol found nothing. We need to be vigilant yet this may very well turn out to be another cost of the "War on Terrorism"!

[The Mayor]

Radio first reported Middle Eastern. Now they're saying, "non American."

being politically correct, they wouldn't want to be caught profiling now would they..

[DrCarl]

>What does a Non-American look like?

Like this:

[matrix]

Two "non-Americans" rented a camel to tour LA. An hour later, the two woeful non-Americans returned to the rental establishment with no camel.

"What happened to the camel!" the owner excaimed.

"Well, we were stopped at a light. Some lady in a car next to us said, "Look at the two a$$ h**es on that camel."

"When we got off to look, the light changed and the camel walked away!"

[TomGuy]

"Hey, Mr. Airplane Pilot Teacher. I want to learn to drive plane. I no terrorist. I don't want to learn to fly. I stay on ground! I just taxi my airplane across big bridge....."

They may even have their own plane [borrowed]:

Augusta Georgia:
Metro:Authorities offer photo of stolen Cessna 172
06/13/02

Apparently, this plane is still missing.

[chance33_98]

A driver reported seeing two "Non-American" men standing near the top of the span

Hmmm Must have been Japanese then. Or Canadians! 'We're planting a bomb eh'

[dawn53]

Evidently, they're still restricting boats from the water around the bridge.

[DB]

Depends on where you lowered it... Underwater for example makes it much more destructive (I believe...).

[b4its2late]

MIDDLE EASTERN MEN?

[SBeck]

Violating several FARs in the process.

[mountaineer]

I'm thinking Billy Joe McAllister ...

Said he'd be pleased to have dinner on Sunday, oh by the way
He said he saw a girl that looked a lot like you Up on Choctaw Ridge
And she and Billy Joe was throwin' somethin' Off the Tallahatchee Bridge.

[mountaineer]

Or Canadians! 'We're planting a bomb eh'

Take off, you hosers, eh!

[SBeck]

Also like this:

Let's not scare the horses, shall we.

[chance33_98]

she looks like Reagan with a hair do - really. Look closely at the pic...

[SBeck]

She was Reagan's confidant and George H. W. Bush's backbone.

[chance33_98]

Those need to be attached to a bridge support to do any damage

Unless it is loaded with jet fuel and they are thinking they can burn it down...May not cause much damage, but on a bridge full of people it may cause panic or injury (or both of course).

[cake_crumb]

About that Cessna 172...did anybody else think it an odd coincidence that the plane which invaded the airspace over the White House was...a Cessna 172? Supposedly it had been sold and was being flown to it's new owner...the few facts which were released were so garbled that they made no sense whatsever, and made whomever "investigated" the plane sound like a total moron.

[Eva]

I flew out of Seattle last week and they were training a group of young baggage screeners, non of which was caucasion. The kid being trained to watch the x-ray machine was dozing off, with his head dropping every 15 seconds. I couldn't believe that the trainer just kept on talking like the kid was listening.