Breaking- Airliner emergency landing in Ft. Smith Ark. Three mideast types locked in bathroom.

Fox 13 news memphis station | september 11, 2002 | Drawsing

[Drawsing]

My wife just called me with this. I can't find it anywhere else. She saw it on the local TV channel.

[buffyt]

Still not much on the news about this event. And I am in LA.

[KC Burke]

Near the location of the plane's landing is Fred's Hickory Inn, a great Bar-B-Que Restaurant in Bentonville. As I am from Kansas City, I don't dispense that accessment lightly.

[Pushi]

You may be too young, but way back in my days in college there was an effort to see how many people could get in a telephone booth. That was when they had telephone booths.

[kancel]

>>FR has been online since I believe 1988<<

Was there enough Internet around for anyone to have a website like freerepublic around in 1988. In 1988 most people didnt even know what the Internet was. Hell I got on the Internet in about 1994 and it sucked then in too many ways to count.

But that aside the "About Link" here at FreeRepublic says "Free Republic was founded in 1996 by Jim Robinson, a private citizen from Fresno, California. "

[buffyt]

Try ANGELO'S in Dallas/Ft. Worth for the best BBQ on earth. They used to have sawdust, hay floors. Now they have cement floors. I guess the health department caught up with them after about 20 or 30 years the old way. They have a giant stuffed real bear, too. We try to time our drives through Dallas so we can stop in there for lunch!!!!! YUMMM!!!!!

[Constitution Day]

Lots of humor impaired folks today (understandable).

I guess I am humor-impaired today, sorry.
It doesn't happen very often.

[Tall_Texan]

Northwest spokeswoman Mary Beth Schubert said Flight 979, an Airbus A-320 bound from Memphis to Las Vegas, departed at 8:45 a.m.

These guys are at least a week behind schedule. They had just got their fake IDs in Tennessee and were now flying to Vegas to meet the other hijackers at a Nevada titty bar. There, they were to tell the others how stupid we Americans were and to not worry about looking suspicious.

Right plot. Wrong timing.

[John Robinson]

The system clock was off that day. I just now fixed the affected user records.

[KC Burke]

well, you have to remember that the early 914s were quite roomy. No console allowed you to have someone sit a-straddle the gear shift, so-to-speak, and laps were easy as the foot well wasn't coffin like. I had plenty of room at 6'2.

Now my wife's current Miata, that is a shoe-box of a different neck cramp.

[Danette]

Being reported that 4 men "shaved themselves clean." Plane is now being searched. Four men were of "mideastern."

[SunnyUsa]

whew...good to know SATAN didn't hack his way in here!

[rockfish59]

Sounds like good target practice for the (ahem) 'armed pilots!'

What was that old ditty:

3 queers in the bathroom
Each one seeking happiness
2 were bent over
Which one would the other bless?

[StolarStorm]

If they shaved themselves all over then they were planning on hijacking the plane. Muslims are told to shave clean (down below) before entering paradise. Not joking.

[Kewlhand`tek]

If these guys are Al Q terrorists, Mineta must resign or be fired.
we should fire mineta anyway just for the fact that he isnt allowing racial profiling

[FReepaholic]

>>...Curley, Larry & Moe???...<<

I can hear them in there now...

"Me no bottom man, me TOP man!"..."C'mon fellas, we go woik to do"..."Why I outta..!"

[AmericanInTokyo]

w/ all due respect, could you good fellows start a separate BBQ thread or something!

[steveegg]

Those were definitely the days (back then, I was just Egg :-)

[LikeLight]

As a some-time joker, this scenario is looking less and less like a joke . . .

[Revolting cat!]

My cousin's brother just called me from West Memphis. He said that his ex's son's from the previous marriage roommate who lives in Memphis a mile or so from the airport, called him on the cell phone to say that the crisis had been resolved; the roommate saw the whole thing on local TV at his girlfriend's house. The three passengers were Elvis Presley impersonators in full dress on their way to an engagement in Las Vegas (where else?) after a flower laying ceremony at the King's grave in Memphis. One of them, interviewed on TV, revealed that all Elvis Presley impersonators get often mistaken for Middle Eastern types or for creatures from other planets. It's a professional hazard, that's all!

[Musket]

Being reported that 4 men "shaved themselves clean."

So....they were having a shaving party in the lav? Too weird.