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Report of Threatening Note and Box Cutters Found on Flight From Tokyo

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Thanks to Oorang for the article

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[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

Were the box cutters connected to a timer, or a cell phone?

[dr_who]

Our children are in danger. That and the job of a couple of TSA losers.

[arasina]

Just wondering...if there were to be a terrorist attack in the U.S. during The Won’s absence, would he and his entourage of 3,000 return from India, or would he hurriedly look for the closest golf course?

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[dixiechick2000]

I heard about this today. Scary stuff!

Pinging Salvation...

[AmericanInTokyo]

HERE IS THE LINK TO A JAPANESE TV REPORT ON THIS INCIDENT. Might not stream on all systems. Hit the white triangle at link to stream.

[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.

[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.)