Florida Terror Arrests a "Hoax?"

Miami Herald | 9-13-2003 | Tim Chapman

[EggsAckley]

Just found this on Drudge, and couldn't find it here.

[The Vast Right Wing]

Ms. Stone should probably be put in charge of homeland security. The medical students should spend a night in the county jail.

[js1138]

We do have a thread for this, but this is a good summary. There are a lot of differences in details from other reports.

[Poohbah]

This is either a huge coincidence, or these guys were "pulsing the system," to use a phrase from the Bad Old Days of the Cold War. ("Pulsing the system" involved deliberate overflights of the other side's territory, solely for the purpose of getting the other side to switch on radars, lauch interceptors, et cetera. The plane performing the incursion would then proceed to record the incoming signals.)

[eno_]

They are so funny they should be sent to clown college in Turkey for some intensive humor seminars.

[hellinahandcart]

If it was a hoax, these boys are not smart enough to be doctors. Throw 'em in the clink for a while anyway, garnish their future wages for the cost of this investigation.

[Iwo Jima]

So much for the competence of the bomb-sniffing dogs.

[EggsAckley]

Do we know yet the ethnicity of the pilot of that small plane brought down by the f-16s?

[Aggie Mama]

If this is a hoax you are going to see their sorry asses on Oprah emoting about how terrible this country treats Muslims. Idiots.

[Joe Brower]

The money that these clowns cost all the good citizens in that area for lost time, wasted gasoline while waiting for the traffic jam they created to clear, etc., etc., should be calculated, and then these three bozos should be fined for that amount.

The money could then be donated to a veterans' relief fund or other such organization. These idiots can then spend the rest of the "medical careers" paying off the debt their indescretion has incurred and thinking about how lucky they were that worse did not happen to them.

[Black Agnes]

It's only a 'hoax' if they can't actually find explosives. Doesn't mean they weren't actually planning anything, only that they didn't get caught. They'll fry this poor woman in GA because she's southern, white, lives in a trailer park and is clearly part of the reason 'they hate us over there'.

[FR_addict]

This is NOT a hoax. Normal people do not go around joking about 9/11, changing license plates on cars, and having material in the cars that alert bomb-smelling dogs.

I am afraid that the bomb may have aleady bee dropped off at some site or was being carried to the site by another car.

Hopefully, the terrorist decide not to bomb since some of their compatriots have been detained.

[rintense]

No, they should go to the pokey for a few months. You can't say hijack on a plane, you can't yell fire in a movie theater, so you sure as hell should not be allowed to make false terrorist threats. This isn't a free speech issue, either. It's a common sense issue that puts the public safety at risk.

[Rome2000]

These were Floriduh bomb sniffing dogs.

[EggsAckley]

thinking about how lucky they were that worse did not happen to them.

EggsAckley! How would they be treated in say.......Iraq?

[Utopia]

If it was a hoax, what a stupid thing to do. I'm not convinced that they weren't sent ahead just to "test" the competency of homeland security.

[Principled]

2 dogs hit on incendiary devices....

one license plate did not belong to one of the cars?...

laughing about 9/11 and joking about further mourning?...

blowing thru a toll booth?...

incooperative when stopped?...

methinks they don't need to be let go so quickly - but that's just my common sense talking.

[Argus]

Middle Eastern types making jokes about September 11 terrorism are about as funny as a big blonde Aryan laughing about Auschwitz in a synagogue. These clowns should get one-way tickets to Baghdad so they can try laughing as the bombs begin to fall.

[3AngelaD]

Yes. Then strip them of their citizenship and send them back to live with their (one can only assume less humor-impaired) brethern in their natal Islamic paradise. If we can take away Nazis' citizenship, we can do the same for towel heads. I wouldn't want one of these guys coming near me with a stethescope. Would you want a doctor with that kind of judgment?

[Joe Hadenuf]

If this is true, deport their asses. Drive them to the freaking airport and put them on a plane bound for Ali Baba land.. .......