Aer Lingus flight evacuated in Ireland

Bradenton Hearld ^ | 08/25/06 | ROBERT BARR

[prisoner6]

FYI

[Uncle Ike]

Who needs explosives or people willing to commit suicide??

Terrorists can now disrupt society with a simple phone call.

Who's really winning this war??

[Vaquero]

Air Lingus? CUNNING.

[Khurkris]

You said..Aer Lingus..heh henh heh henh heh henh...

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

ping for future.

[mewzilla]

Who's really winning this war??

Since I can recall a period of time a few years back when I went days before seeing contrails in the sky, I'd say we are. We're still flying. Screw the inconvenience.

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

What about Aer Lingus? It apparently is Air Fleet.

[OldFriend]

And your plan to resolve this?

[dawn53]

We are. Minor inconveniences, but no major disruptions. Can you imagine if the Britain bomb plot had succeeded...then we'd return to post 9/11 days and empty airports.

My hubby and son just returned from a 10 day trip to Canada. They flew from Florida to Texas to Calgary, had to go through customs and security more than a couple times, but they said the attitude of passengers was upbeat and the planes were full.

We're definitely winning.

P.S. If, and I say if because I think the calls are made by pranksters instead of terrorists, but if the disruptions are caused by terrorists, they can't consider themselves successful because they delay a flight for a few hours.

[Toby06]

We had bomb scares in school, but that didn't mean the druggy loser crowd won out.

Hopefully islam will fall into the dustbin of history just like the loser kids from high school.

[EBH]

Looks like they've succeeded in disrupting air commerce.

[Axhandle]

Such a phone call would have had the same effect even if there were no terrorists left on the planet.

[maryz]

Terrorists can now disrupt society with a simple phone call.

Old ploy of the Left -- I was in grad school at Boston University in the 70s (the era of Vietnam and student radicals), and they got as many as a couple of bomb threats a week for a while. (Temping summers, I sometimes worked in an office building that got them.) They certainly didn't get national coverage though; I don't even recall that they got local coverage.

After the first few, the professor/office manager when notified would just make the announcement and tell students/workers they could go outside if they wanted to while the fire department checked the building, but fewer and fewer people bothered.

[commish]

Gee let me guess - a 60 yr old female Norwegian Lutheran again?

[aynrandfreak]

LOL

[vimto]

"Terrorists can now disrupt society with a simple phone call"

That was the IRA tactic and it often shut London down for hours.

I've been waiting for the Muslim Jihadi's to work it out - they are being trained by the IRA so I guess it follows.

As any student of operant condiditoning knows, it works best when the bell is only intermittently rewarded by food. Likewise occasional bombings should be enough to enable frequent terror alerts to the the work for them.

Not either/or but both/and.

[RasterMaster]

They must have learned that from the Teamsters....every time the union wants to organize and company employees vote them down, the bomb threats begin on a daily basis.

[Red Badger]

Named after St. Connie........

[Armigerous]

No,actually this airline was named for its founder who had been an officer in the Irish Air Force......Colonel Lingus

[Red Badger]

Ol' Dingus Lingus?.......