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Box Cutter Found On Plane At Logan Airport
Maine News ^
| 10/28/03
Posted on 10/28/2003 10:04:46 PM PST by I_love_weather
http://news.mainetoday.com/apwire/D7UFJ9Q80-300.shtml
Quote "Security at the airport was never breached, Massport spokesman Phil Orlandella said."
LOL...ummm yeah ok
TOPICS: Front Page News
KEYWORDS: boxcutter
To: I_love_weather
To: I_love_weather
I am imagine that if someone got onto a plane accidentally carrying a boxcutter (easy to do - the Feds still sieze oodles of them), that once on the plane, they must start to worry about what will happen to them if they get caught carrying it as they come off the plane. What to do? Obviously, wipe it down and park it somewhere on the plane, preferabley not under their own seat.
To: Held_to_Ransom
Why would anyone carry a boxcutter in a plane today? Are they insane? I just don't understand most people.
To: Held_to_Ransom
Nobody examines passengers when they disembark the plane, or so I thought.
To: aristotleman
Lots of people carry them around at work, and then rush to catch a plane without noticing they have them. Also pen knives etc. The airports collect piles of them, but out of all those, they have to miss some now and then. Passengers aren't the only people in the world who can forget or skip something.
LOL. Once in the 70's I got on a plane with a linoleum knife and a mandolin I had installed a guitar pickup on in a bag. On the x-ray it look just like bomb and I got a lot of attention. They quickly realized there was no plastic explosive or blasting cap and they let me go, but not with the linoleum cutter. It was my best one, too.
To: HiTech RedNeck
Nobody examines passengers when they disembark the plane, or so I thought. What about connecting flights?
In any case, if you found yourself on a plane with a boxcutter, you might worry about getting found with it. I wouldn't want to depend on them not doing something I didn't know about.
To: I_love_weather
Ya know,
I've worked in the construction industry, the supply chain industry, and the combat peacekeeper industry for the past 20 years.
I can never rememeber taking anything on an airplane that could be construed as a weapon (minus the M-16 A2E on a military flight) And this was even before 9/11.
HOW does one FORGET that they have a sharp object, aside from a pen, on a commercial flight? I guess I'm being arrogant, but I just can't figure this out.
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posted on
10/28/2003 10:34:27 PM PST
by
Greenpees
(Coulda Shoulda Woulda)
To: I_love_weather
Nobody is ever going to succeed in taking an airplane with box cutters again. Not while passengers have blankets, pillows, briefcases, books, newspapers....
You can kill someone with a rolled-up newspaper, especially if you have help. AND it's guaranteed that there will be a SWARM of help--maybe enough to upset the load of the plane.
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posted on
10/28/2003 10:39:12 PM PST
by
ChemistCat
(Hang in there, Terri. Absorb. Take in. Live. Heal.)
To: I_love_weather
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed--and hence clamorous to be led to safety--by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." H.L. Mencken
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posted on
10/28/2003 10:54:16 PM PST
by
Oztrich Boy
(You realize, of course, this means war?" B Bunny)
To: I_love_weather
Box Cutter Found On Plane At Logan Airport Another good reason why all pilots should be armed. And I don't care how it got there.
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posted on
10/28/2003 11:05:53 PM PST
by
Euro-American Scum
(A poverty-stricken middle class must be a disarmed middle class)
To: Greenpees
I can never rememeber taking anything on an airplane that could be construed as a weapon (minus the M-16 A2E on a military flight) And this was even before 9/11. Huh? When I came home from Nam on a commercial flight, I brought along my Chicom SKS. No problem. Oh well, I guess the gubmint has made us safer since then. These days, they'da had me in cuffs so fast I wouldn'ta had time to blink.
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