Bullet Found at Florida Airport

Yahoo News ^ | Dec 24, 2001

[RightWhale]

some kid dropped a .22

Quick! Evacuate the airport! the city! the entire state!

[Centurion2000]

DANIA BEACH, Fla. (AP) - A bullet found outside a gate at Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood International Airport prompted authorities to evacuate a busy concourse Monday, delaying flights up to three hours

Over a single bullet ??? .... they'd sh$% a brick if they found my car in their airport.

Cowards.

[prambo]

What a bunch of wussies - amazingly stupid. This country is beginning to deserve its coming dictatorship.

Oh, oh, oh - protect me, protect me.

It's enough to make you vomit.

prambo

[RogueIsland]

OMG a BULLET!!!!!! Run for your lives!!!! Head for the hills!!!!! A BULLET!!!!!

[dhuffman@awod.com]

I haven't even approached my local "International" airport, Charleston, SC, for fear of the widened and enhanced security zone. I can just imagine what the federal-myrmidon wannabes would find in my auto in addition to my legally carried pistol.

I will again trust the airlines with my life when they trust me with my firearm.

The conspiracy of ignorance masquerades as common sense.

[Mulder]

Idiots. They must have thought that it was a magic 'islam bullet' that would propel itself off the ground and attack anything in sight.

They are fools, which I why I refuse to fly.

[randog]

some kid dropped a .22

Exactly. Someone found the bullet in his/her pocket and did an 'Oh S**t!'.

I took my first post-911 flight a couple of weeks ago and found myself in this situation. I packed carefully the night before, making sure I left my pocketknives, etc. at home. I drove to the airport from work, but just before I left a mechanical engineer gave me a couple of prototype pieces hot off the punch. One of the pieces had a sharp tapered angle to it and could have been used as a knife in a desperate situation. I threw the pieces into my carry-on bag, making a mental note to take them out and leave them in my truck before I went in the airport terminal. Guess what? Right--I forgot! I didn't want to ditch the prototypes because they were the only ones built, so I figured I'd just try to talk my way out of it and if they were confiscated then they were confiscated--nothing I could do about it. To make a long story short, I made it through 3 searches and no one said a word. Security was interested in what might be behind my belt buckle and hat band, but didn't say a word about the sharp metal object in my carry-on bag.

[Mulder]

What a bunch of wussies - amazingly stupid. This country is beginning to deserve its coming dictatorship.

Well stated. People are such sissies.

[mvpel]

You know, a small team of America-haters could bring the entire air transportation system in the country to a grinding halt simply by dropping a few bullets out of holes in their pockets as they walk through the concourses of airports across the nation.

[Lady Jag]

You have the smallest hole in your pocket and a .22 will fall out evey time. Most hand gun ammo would and you wouldn't even notice.

[GreenHornet]

Andy: "Barney! How could you lose your bullet?"

Barney: "Gosh, Andy, I don't know....I had it this morning when I went out to the airport...it musta fallen out of my pocket somewhere".

[orfisher]

I must travel/fly for business. I can't tell you how many times I've had to leave my cigar cutter with security. I use cheap ones so it doesn't matter that much but please....what am I gonna do with it, cut off someones finger unless they let me light up?

[Dog Gone]

My thoughts exactly. It would be a piece of cake to sneak a few bullets beyond the security checkpoints.

With this kind of overreaction, you could bring the nation's air system to a halt with a couple of dozen volunteers.

[DWSUWF]

"...They are fools, which I why I refuse to fly..."

Exactly right.

These idiots are searching their own pilots, and confiscating fingernail clippers from them.

Until this hysteria passes I'd just as soon hop a freight and share a boxcar with rabid hobos than fly on a commercial passenger aircraft.

[AKbear]

Shut down a concourse for a bullet?!? Jeeze, think what they would have done if the found a whole cartridge.

[Mulder]

You know, a small team of America-haters could bring the entire air transportation system in the country to a grinding halt simply by dropping a few bullets out of holes in their pockets as they walk through the concourses of airports across the nation.

Exactly. The only reason that it hasn't happened yet is that your typical "Abdul" or "Mohammad" is just too stupid to figure it out, given their abysmal track record at other things.

And even if Abdul did try it, he would somehow screw it up.

[Zaxis]

The media being what it is, one has to wonder if it was a bullet or a cartridge?

[Sandy]

OMG!! This is hilarious.