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?
Makes you wonder what substance the bad guys see themselves filling trucks with. Propane in a tunnel would be bad. A gasoline truck spilling its load on a packed road at rush hour would be bad as well
If they had any brains they wouldn't be muslims in the first place.
If you ever want to insult a truckdriver tell him he is a no backing cowboy.
Most drivers take pride in their ability to back up their rig. Any clown can drive it forward, over curbs ,and tear the sides off. A few can even tip them over on exit ramps. Not many can reverse their trailer so they can enter a narrow driveway.
I thought the new laws had done away with multiple driver's licenses, I dont know how this guy has 3.
Praise Allah for the super NAFTA highway!!!
Your directions work well when you have only one pivot point. How about "pups", or my favorite, backing an F-111 on a "long long" towbar with a 4-wheel drive, 4-wheel steering tug.
"I dont know how this guy has 3."
My guess would be that he and his buddies are very creative. Seems to me I've been through this kind of scenario before. With those 19 clowns before 9/11.
The thing is muslims are so backward anyway that he didn't NEED to learn that. Backwards is normal to them.
That was song from the 60s...
Backing up is hard to do.....
No wonder I am having trouble learning to back the boat trailer! I had my hands in the wrong place.
Thanks, BAR!
You were lucky. I had a father-in-law as an instructor and during those early marriage years, he was not yet sure he liked me. I can tell you, backing a 40,000 pound load of swinging meat up a shaky ramp onto a railroad piggyback flat car is no way to learn to back a truck. It will, however, remove any foolish youthful thoughts of immortality.
One story at a time.
Hear ya!
If they think they get 72 virgins for a successful mohammicidal attack, it stands to reason this is what they would get for an unsuccessful one!
Back when I was a “yut” (early sixties) and trying to learn how to drive a big rig, I had a seasoned driver that gave me the same advice … and it worked!. Thanks for the memories.
I selected not to pursue a career in long haul, but did enjoy my few years in that profession and to this day thank that driver for his guidance. I can, to this day, back any vehicle into any spot with little trouble.
They all aren't so dumb. Never underestimate the enemy.
I like your thinking. Perhaps the military could use the two witches at Gitmo to scare the terrorists into talking. It was enough to drive Bubba elsewhere.
This is nothing compared to the commercial truck driving school in our town. It was recently shut down after an FBI raid last February. Turns out about 500 men with middle eastern names (muslim) were sent here from the MBS Truck Driving School (Muslim Brothers and Sisters) in Kansas City to take their driving tests. The director and his assistant are under federal indictment for mail fraud in this case. Apparently, some documents were falsified saying the men, mostly Somalis, passed the test. By the way, the director was the Democrat candidate for state representative in November. I am not making this up!!!
Tough job isn't it? From my experience (also 1960s) I too decided against a trucking career. However, I still admire those guys out on the Interstate in the really big rigs. They have picked a really rough, but admirable, row to hoe.
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