Delta Jet Lands in Ore. With "Suspicious Items" (Box Cutters)

CBS News ^ | 11/3/2010 | CBS

[Ezekiel]

Delta

Interesting choice of airlines. Delta, the symbol for "change".

[Ramius]

I know it’s just me, but I happen to think that airplanes would be safer if ~everybody~ on board had a knife (or insert weapon here).

The planes on 9/11 weren’t hijacked because there were too many weapons on those planes. They were hijacked because there were too FEW weapons on those planes.

If it were up to me, I’d put little bats ...like those bat-night bats you get at baseball games, in the seat-back pockets of every airplane. About the size of a fish kerbanger. Give those things to two hundred and fifty passengers on a 757 and I can pretty much guarantee that ~that~ plane will not be hijacked and used as a missile.

[Hetty_Fauxvert]

“I know it’s just me, but I happen to think that airplanes would be safer if ~everybody~ on board had a knife (or insert weapon here).”

You’ll laugh, but when I fly (not often) I always carry a couple of verrrrry sharp pencils with me. Husband does the same. A very sharp pencil will go right into something ... soft.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Oh, pullllease. Enough with it already. This is not credible intelligence analysis.

[Global2010]

Aim for the wind pipe!

[Ezekiel]

Yipes. It was a cynical comment, not intended as "credible intelligence analysis". I am cynical because Obama and his administration are evil and wacko and would be happy to watch America go down - merely for the thrill of "change", and would sympathize with jihadis while paying lip service to defense of America. So because a Delta is the symbol for Change - Obama's key buzzword - it has an auspicious aura to it. Same reason that with Obama, even a bad overused Slurpee joke becomes suspect.

People can make of it what they will. I'll keep posting what I post. I just won't post those comments to you though, oops.

[RipSawyer]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UHNTkVqWpQ

[Velveeta]

It didn’t stream for me. Is there any new information in the report?

[Hetty_Fauxvert]

That’s what I’ve always thought. (Did you ever see the movie “Red Eye”?) But even a hit to a hand, leg, whatever you could reach, could be a good distraction to an attacker.

[Teacher317]

I did not know it at the time, but I had a shotgun shell in a small pocket of my backpack. I got through security at both airports on a round-trip before finding it a week after the trip. I can only imagine what would've happened had it been found. I barely made it to the airport for the flight out, and would've been up a creek for missing a meeting if I had missed that flight. I got lucky as heck.

(Thanks again to my guardian angel. He/she must get overtime pay, LOL.)

[conductor john]

I always fly now with a good, strong piece of rope or shoelaces in pocket, just in case.

[Velveeta]

You would have been up a creek for sure.
I like a happy ending. :-)