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Liam Neeson: Taken films have put Americans off travelling to Europe
Yahoo Movies UK ^ | 31st December 2014 | Yahoo Movies UK

Posted on 01/01/2015 1:11:04 PM PST by the scotsman

'Liam Neeson says he’s received many letters from Americans too scared to travel to Europe after watching the ‘Taken’ films.

The 62-year-old actor stars as retired CIA agent Bryan Mills in the action franchise and admits fans have written to him saying they’re frightened of travelling abroad due to the storylines in which his wife and daughter are kidnapped.

Speaking on the Graham Norton Show, while promoting 'Taken 3', he said: “Just the other day I got a letter from a school teacher in Texas who had tried to take 60 students to Europe and the families of 40 of them got the kids out of it because they had seen ‘Taken 2’.

And then this year she wanted to take 20 of them and the parents all said, ‘No, because we’ve seen that movie!’.'

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To: the scotsman

Liam Neeson wants to be a Muslim.


21 posted on 01/01/2015 1:33:55 PM PST by ObamahatesPACoal
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To: moose07

“There is more danger of being shot by a cop on a routine traffic stop at home than being hurt by a rag-head in Europe.”


Bull! I’m sure you back up that statement with facts.

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22 posted on 01/01/2015 1:36:14 PM PST by Mears
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To: moose07
There is more danger of being shot by a cop on a routine traffic stop at home than being hurt by a rag-head in Europe.

Though I would agree with you...it does depend on where you are in Europe...

Sharia compliant zones probably not..especially if you are a infidel women...

Everywhere else...just your average...

23 posted on 01/01/2015 1:41:03 PM PST by Popman
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To: the scotsman
I know Americans, I have met Texans, I know they aren’t this dumb. Are they?

Well, one of the people mentioned was a public school teacher, after all. The others were people who were stupid enough to pay money to see a Liam Neeson movie. In a place the size of Texas, you're bound to find a few mental midgets. They just managed to get several of them together for the purposes of this one article, I guess.
24 posted on 01/01/2015 1:49:26 PM PST by Milton Miteybad (I am Jim Thompson. {Really.})
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To: the scotsman

Comments from the Brits are interesting.


25 posted on 01/01/2015 1:52:01 PM PST by DFG ("Dumb, Dependent, and Democrat is no way to go through life" - Louie Gohmert (R-TX))
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To: Dr. Sivana
I was afraid to fly after seeing Airplane!

Surely you can't be serious!

26 posted on 01/01/2015 1:58:35 PM PST by justlurking (tagline removed, as demanded by Admin Moderator)
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To: Mears

Well, our family seems to have an affinity for those type of events.

My friend’s uncle was on the Lockerbie flight. A friend of my husband’s was in the twin towers. He was hero, though, he didn’t die. He rescued a group of people by leading them to safety in the floors below the towers. He had a heart condition and died a few years later from the lung damage.

Then a the childhood neighbor of my husband was killed on that TWA flight that was headed to Paris.


27 posted on 01/01/2015 2:02:34 PM PST by Eva
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To: justlurking
Surely you can't be serious!

Very droll, but I doubt he appreciates being called Shirley.

28 posted on 01/01/2015 2:03:23 PM PST by doc11355
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To: the scotsman

Nobody is this dumb, not even in America. Anybody who believes it is pretty dumb, though. Sounds like Neeson thinks everybody has seen these movies and thinks they’re real. I’d say Neeson is the dumb one.


29 posted on 01/01/2015 2:07:30 PM PST by ozzymandus
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To: ozzymandus

Sounds like Liam Neeson is a bit taken by his opinions.


30 posted on 01/01/2015 2:09:40 PM PST by King Moonracer (Bad lighting and cheap fabric, that's how you sell clothing.....)
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To: the scotsman
I've never been paranoid about safety when traveling in Europe, but I do have to say I saw more guns in the hands of police in London than I've seen in the hands of the Los Angeles Police Department, both in the last two visits I've made there.

I asked a cab driver about it and he said there was a terrorist alert. Okay, well I'll continue to travel by cab and not by bus or the Underground then, I said. He liked that idea. I wondered if they've ever lifted the armed police presence since the time between my last two visits.

For the supposed 'unarmed police' that London is noted for, I have to say the majority of the police officers I saw there were pretty gunned up.

31 posted on 01/01/2015 2:11:55 PM PST by The KG9 Kid
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To: Mears
400 per year by US cops.(FBI data)
251 in 10 years, in WesternEurope by ROPS (Data 2011)
Link
So yes ,as uncomfortable as it sounds.
The deciding factor being that you have some measure of control over the outcome with a cop.
32 posted on 01/01/2015 2:18:18 PM PST by moose07 (The Camels have reached Radiator Springs; Luigi knows what tyres they need.)
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To: The KG9 Kid

London police are by far the most ‘tooled up’ of our police. As you said, terrorism, from the IRA days to Muslims now.


33 posted on 01/01/2015 2:21:39 PM PST by the scotsman
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To: the scotsman
A: Who the hell would write to Liam Neeson ?

B: Who the hell would tell him that they are worried about traveling to anywhere based on a movie he participated in ?

C: Why am I even responding to this post ?

D: New Years day drinking ?

E: All of the above.

Happy New Years Freepers !!!

34 posted on 01/01/2015 2:24:36 PM PST by onona (Obama's entire term reads like a John Semmens post.)
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To: cripplecreek

LOL, I just have a wish to travel, I don’t get why anyone (and there are plenty of Brits as well) who don’t wish to. I cant grasp why people don’t want to experience different parts of the great world we live in.


35 posted on 01/01/2015 2:24:37 PM PST by the scotsman
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To: EQAndyBuzz

Sad.


36 posted on 01/01/2015 2:24:47 PM PST by the scotsman
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To: the scotsman

I just spent a couple of weeks traveling around Italy and my only regret is that I didn’t have a month. Incredible.

I never felt threatened or in danger. I do sometimes feel in danger at night in the NYC metro area that I live in. Italy felt more safe to me.

I could be wrong. Just saying how I felt.


37 posted on 01/01/2015 2:25:35 PM PST by samtheman
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To: ObamahatesPACoal

No, he dosent. Nor is he one, this all stems from a story where he said he likes the sound of morning prayer call. But then he also like the bagpipes and Beethoven.


38 posted on 01/01/2015 2:25:37 PM PST by the scotsman
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To: DFG

If they are ignorant, ignore. Trolls.


39 posted on 01/01/2015 2:25:57 PM PST by the scotsman
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To: the scotsman

Liam.. Your anti second amendment stance nullifies your opinions.. Shut up.


40 posted on 01/01/2015 2:33:00 PM PST by momincombatboots (Back to West by G-d Virginia.)
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