Posted on 09/09/2011 6:43:27 PM PDT by MamaDearest
PEORIA — Ryder has canceled all truck rentals for the coming week due to credible but unconfirmed threats of terrorist attacks in the wake of the 10th anniversary of 9/11.
A customer who did not want to be identified told the Journal Star that she had been informed by Ryder of the cancellation by phone call Friday. A Ryder representative told the Journal Star all local rentals for the weekend had been canceled, though that person declined to elaborate on the reason.
Further questions were referred to the head of rentals for the local arm of the company. That person did not immediately return a request for an interview.
The customer was told by a Ryder representative in Peoria that the president of the company had decided to stop all truck rentals this week in the wake of the threats of terrorist attacks on the East Coast.
U.S. officials said Thursday they were investigating a credible but unconfirmed threat of a car bomb that may be used to target bridges or tunnels in New York City or Washington, D.C.
Neither U-Haul or Budget Truck Rental have any plans at this time to discontinue rentals in the area over the weekend, according to Peoria-area representatives reached by phone Friday afternoon.
Anyone who had moving plans disrupted this weekend who would like to share their story is asked to call the Journal Star newsroom at 686-3114 or email news@pjstar.com.
For more complete details, read tomorrow’s Journal Star or check pjstar.com later.
This is insane. A few yahoos yell “kill the infidels” in a cell phone, and we shut down. Net cost to yahoos: a phone call. Net cost to us: millions.
The attack - when it comes - will be on the DC subway system. No trucks needed.
I would rather live in a insensative America than a land of make believe wimpy America.
Ryder should have taken what ammounts to a weeks profit to maybe hire heavily armed security..?
Would provide a little extra employment,too.
Malls. Attack 20 large Malls at the same time would shut the country down. Easy and cheap.
Yeah, we're so vigilant we're going to let tens of thousands of Arab, Central Asian, and African Muslims immigrate to here this year like last year. And next year, and the year after that and the year after that.
Trying to read between the lines. Does anyone know if Ryder has any trucks missing at this point? How about Budget or U-Haul? Is there another reason Ryder is taking this action due to something already in the works where someone is warning from the ABC agencies? Speculation and an attempt to read between the lines.
No, who they should profile are people who ask disingenuous questions thinking they have scored rhetorical points.
How can you say that? We already did and have stopped, under this administration and its support for Egypt, Palestine, etc.
98% of Muslims are non-White. The largest majority being Arab and Central Asian. Those are pretty good odds.
As for the Arab-Christians, sorry about their bad luck. They don't have to be here if they don't like it.
New sarcastic song, yet to be written.
When I’ve driven one myself I basically expect others to stay far away - it takes a while for me to be comfortable driving one of those things.
Do you realize that same standard can be applied to you as well?
No, I actually realize that it can't. And it would take some serious sophistry and mental contortion to argue otherwise.
We don’t need metaphysical certitude. Because a handful of whites go native doesn’t make the real world go away.
Most people have a good sense of what’s suspicious, but have been politically corrected to suppress their common sense.
If muslims want to live amongst us without suspicion, they must repudiate all the islamic superiority and infidels-must-die doctrines, and they must police themselves openly. That is never going to happen, so they must be excluded from our society if we are to avoid dhimmitude.
That's what the Unabomber did back in 1995. After a couple of successful bombings he knew that all he needed to do was say "boo!" and everyone would jump. He said "boo!" one time that year, and air transport on the west coast was virtually shut down.
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anyone care to add to this???
A good friend of mine is the head of Ryder security, and I mean the head of it around the world. For him to recommend they do this, and the amount of money it will cost to do so, he has been told something credible from the FBI or CIA. I have known him since middle school, hell I was in his wedding even, so for them to do this now then someone knows something specific. I am going to call him right now and see if he can perhaps hint to me what is going on. He won’t of course, far too professional for me to talk him into it, and even if he does I won’t share it openly here, but I will see what he can tell me officially at least.
Where, Winona?
If you want to take out mass quantities of people on the DCMetro, you do kinda need a truck bomb. You set off the bomb in DC, triggering an evacuation. Stampede people onto the Metro THEN set off bombs at Metro Center, Gallery Place, L’Enfant Plaza and/or Rosslyn.
I have no interest in “scoring points”. My only interest is in skewering illogical arguments.
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