Airports: The new Roman arena/Ann Coulter slams security shakedowns and stealing property

"They still have emergency exit doors that can be opened during flight, causing the plane to crash."

Uh, no, Ann, they do NOT. The air pressure differential between the cabin and the outside prevents this. And even IF someone COULD get the exit door to open, it would NOT cause a crash. It would cause a decompression in the cabin which would make the pax mighty uncomfortable until the pilot descended to a more breathable altitude. Which is why the aircraft have oxy masks.

I just hate it when an otherwise-credible writer self-destructs with wild assertions that have no basis in fact. I also have a problemo with Ann's declaration that, somehow, a silver bullet is a "sentimental item." Did she have a thing with the Lone Ranger or something?

And finally - to the white-knuckler who said he was a-skeered to death to look out the right window and see another aircraft "a few HUNDRED yards away lined up to land on the SAME runway at DIA..." Sorry, buddy, but that other a/c was on final for a PARALLEL runway. DIA's parallels are pretty closely spaced. ATC had that one well in hand.

I just love it when people who don't know a darn thing about aviation choose to write about ... aviation.

Michael

I also have a problemo with Ann's declaration that, somehow, a silver bullet is a "sentimental item."

And I have a problem with any declaration that you might make concerning any of your own personal posessions. They should be taken from you with no explanation while you listen to people telling you how petty you are for complaining.

I also have a problemo with Ann's declaration that, somehow, a silver bullet is a "sentimental item." Did she have a thing with the Lone Ranger or something?

What if she did? A silver bullet charm is not a threat to any airline passenger. They should not have stolen it. Only sheep will fly now, it's insane what is going on.

Well I actually have been around here long enough to know the "AnnCoulter picture rule" - I was just confused as to why the request was made to me since I didn't start the thread.....

I do like Ann Coulter - and thought the idea of security "stealing" anyone's belongings was absurd! Why aren't they required to catalogue the items so they can be returned or even traced if they were to turn out to actually be "weapons"?

Her 'jewelry' is a bullet strapped to a chain? And that is sentimental?

First of all, just about any type of object can have sentimental value to someone, depending upon how they got it. As for the use of such an item as jewelry, chaqu'un à son goût [to each his own taste]. I would bet dollars to donuts that not only was the charm not a live round, but that even cursory inspection would make abundantly clear that it never was nor could have ever been a live round (in a live round, the bullet, casing, and primer surface are three separate pieces of metal, and the casing is hollow; in the silver-colored charms that I've seen, the entire item is a solid piece of metal or chrome-plated plastic and the casing is solid except for a hole through it. Some non-silver-colored keychains I've seen look like they may have been made from real rounds, but they have no primers and the casings are obviously rendered useless by the holes drilled through them.

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