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Semi-Truck Terrorism? [Didn't Want To Learn Backing Up...I kid Ya Not Alert]
kxmc.com ^ | Dec. 12, 2006 | Not Cited

Posted on 12/12/2006 5:41:12 PM PST by conservativecorner

A truck-driving student is in custody in Boston after raising suspicions when he wasn�t interested in learning how to back up his rig.

WLVI-TV (Ch. 56) reported last night that the would-be trucker is a 28-year-old Muslim from India and had overstayed his visa. An investigation is under way to see whether there is any connection between his unusual behavior and a terrorism plot. Federal authorities were alerted by instructors at the Nationwide Tractor Trailer Driving School in Smithfield, R.I., WLVI reported.

The student was described as a resident of New York, with driver�s licenses from New York, New Jersey and Rhode Island.

�Every indicator was there,� R.I. State Police Major Steve O�Donnell told WLVI. �Any one of these things alone is fine, but four or five together .

While a loaded semi-truck would make a fine weapon it’s hard for this ex-farm boy to understand that you’d need a lesson on how to drive it forward.

I wonder what will become of this story?


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: Virginia; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: jihadinamerica
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1 posted on 12/12/2006 5:41:16 PM PST by conservativecorner
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Someone better be beating this guy to a pulp until he talks.


2 posted on 12/12/2006 5:42:41 PM PST by ilgipper
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To: ilgipper

He has rights you know


3 posted on 12/12/2006 5:44:38 PM PST by Tspud1
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Geesh....whatever they do...DON'T put panties on his head!


4 posted on 12/12/2006 5:45:25 PM PST by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon)
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To: ilgipper
"Someone better be beating this guy to a pulp until he talks."

Then after he does keep beating him some more. Then toss him off a 100 story building.


5 posted on 12/12/2006 5:46:48 PM PST by I see my hands (_8(|)
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To: conservativecorner

Terrorists are planning an attack using semi-trailer trucks. It's seems to be obvious from the various reports we've heard about Muslims getting Hazmat licenses, etc. Good luck to all.


6 posted on 12/12/2006 5:47:01 PM PST by popdonnelly
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To: ilgipper

These lower-level guys really are idiots! He admits he doesnt want to learn backing up, sheesh! Thank God our enemy isnt so bright.


7 posted on 12/12/2006 5:47:39 PM PST by HHKrepublican_2
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To: ilgipper

Put him in a room with Nancy Pelosi and Hillary Clinton. All three can have a "love-in." Both witches, no doubt, feel his poor misunderstood pain!


8 posted on 12/12/2006 5:48:33 PM PST by ExTexasRedhead
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"He has rights you know"

Oh, he sure does! But everybody else in America has rights, too.


9 posted on 12/12/2006 5:49:30 PM PST by popdonnelly
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To: conservativecorner

It's a little too hoakey to me.


10 posted on 12/12/2006 5:49:31 PM PST by Brilliant
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To: HHKrepublican_2

Maybe he just wanted to forward freight.


11 posted on 12/12/2006 5:49:37 PM PST by umgud (I love NASCAR as much as the Democrats hate Bush)
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To: conservativecorner
a 28-year-old Muslim from India

The day he stepped off the raft from Bombay he had overstayed his welcome. With any luck, he'll run into some real truckers who'll demonstrate that "road kill" is also a verb.

12 posted on 12/12/2006 5:49:43 PM PST by IronJack (=)
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I do not think this fellow should be permited to drive Nono No Nono!

13 posted on 12/12/2006 5:50:34 PM PST by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)
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"But everybody else in America has rights, too."


Ah, but that is where you are wrong. Only the bad guys really have rights.


14 posted on 12/12/2006 5:51:09 PM PST by Brilliant
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>>it’s hard for this ex-farm boy to understand that you’d need a lesson on how to drive it forward. <<

For this ex-truck driver, I've seen a lot of guys and gals who never took the backup lessons. Of course they didn't do too well going forward either.

15 posted on 12/12/2006 5:51:18 PM PST by Muleteam1
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To: I see my hands

heat him up first with a blow torch. he'll talk.


16 posted on 12/12/2006 5:53:15 PM PST by bobby.223
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To: conservativecorner

I went to truck driving school and drove tractor trailer for about a year. THE MOST DIFFICULT PART about driving tractor trailer is backing up. 90 percent of our driving time was spent learning how to back into every situation the instructors threw at us. Either this was some retard that didn't understand what the job is about, or he's a terrorist.


17 posted on 12/12/2006 5:54:03 PM PST by Tailback
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Backing up a rig is no big deal.

Put both hands at the bottom of the steering wheel. Look in your left side mirror and square what you see with what you see in your right side mirror.
Which ever way you want the ass end of the trailer to go, move your hands in that direction. With very little practice it's a piece of cake.

18 posted on 12/12/2006 5:54:13 PM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (The way that you wander is the way that you choose. The day that you tarry is the day that you lose.)
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To: conservativecorner
Thanks, need some help here: There was a post (which I failed to save) that detailed the effects on a country given X% muslim population. 1% peaceful minority. 2%... and so on.

Any assistance appreicated.

19 posted on 12/12/2006 5:54:23 PM PST by RKM
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To: Tspud1

Not when it comes to my survival and that of my family. (Understand your sarcasm).


20 posted on 12/12/2006 5:54:41 PM PST by doc1019
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