Posted on 08/28/2007 8:11:47 AM PDT by GourmetDan
My wife was flying between 2 cities in the midwest this week and noticed that the arabic man next to her was texting the entire time of the flight.
It is my opinion that the guy was testing the limits of cell-phone texting capability during flight. Perhaps a dry-run for another coordinated attack. I urged her to call DHS and let them know what she saw.
Anybody else witness this kind of behavior?
However, nothing on his list comes anywhere near engaging the enemy up-close-and-personal during exigent circumstances.
John "Doe" is aptly named and fits to a "T" the well-earned stereotype of the typical American.........
I hate “Dell by Microsoft” mouse devices.... 8~)
see it all the time....
People use thier Crackberries right up until the signal is gone, and on some trips, you can pick it up again over certain cities, at certain altitudes...
Some bimbo next to me kept using her phone to text during a flight and I tried to let the stewardess know. The stewardess gave me a look like I was just a little snitch and said “So what?!” It was my impression that she just didn’t understand the technology and didn’t realize what the bimbo was doing.
In the last year I’ve noticed a phenomenon I call “cell phone starers,” i.e., people who sit in a bar or public place and just endlessly stare at their cell phone. If Seinfeld were still on, it could be an idea as a sub-plot for one of their shows, like “low talkers” and “sidlers.”
You were probably right on that one.
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A couple of weeks ago I was in a McDonald’s, and a woman was loudly talking on her cell phone with the speaker phone turned on. I couldn’t believe it. I learned all about her father’s foibles. I can’t believe how rude people with cell phones are, as if the rest of the world wants to hear their conversations.
I think those fires in Greece are a terrorist attack. They have arrested 30 people. It would seem very peculiar that 30 strangers suddenly decided to set Greece on fire.
I use my Nextel cellphone in flight when I fly my own plane and it works perfect at 20,000 feet. I am sure will work even higher.
How did you measure 5000AGL? With your range finder mounted in the nose of your Cessna 152? I can only measure MSL
Granted there is no evidence that cell phones and crackberries cause any harm, but... I think the flight attendants should be allowed to confiscate them and smash them with a hammer. What is it about people that makes them think they're above the law?
Most phones come with “profiles”, settings for certain enviroment. Is one called Airplane Mode where the transmiter radio is off, but you can use all the other functions. If you have a smart phone enabled by Windows, you can even work on your word processor.
1) I wasn’t in a Cessna anything.
2) GPS, loaded with topographic maps.
Why didn’t she notify the flight attendant that the mohammedan was violating captains orders?
I see. Can you (then) plot a solution with the GPS enabler?
Besides the GPS, which can measure the elevation difference if I sit or stand, they invented this technique called subtraction.
A while back a local newspaper did an article about rude people who talk on their cell phones in public. One guy related the time he was on a bus when some woman behind him began talking loudly on her cellphone. Irritated, he turned around and pretended to take notes of her conversation, even asking her to please speak up because he was trying to transcribe everything she was saying. The woman's response to this was "Do you mind??? This is a private conversation!" To which the man answered: "No it's not! Everyone on the bus can hear you!". The woman ended her cell phone conversation immediately.
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