Man arrested at LAX with explosives

CNN

[newsperson999]

Breaking on CNN, he had a "miltary type" explosive, LAX evacuated.

[aruanan]

Great link! I remember those good old days when anyone could buy a box of M-80 casings and a hundred feet of water-proof dynamite fuse and make their own. I also remember the wonderful silver salutes and big torpedos (giant exploding pearls). Torpedos (potassium picrate, the active ingredient) were still available in the Dominican Republic in the late '70s. Each sounding about as loud as a 20 gauge shotgun blast. I unrolled enough of them and rerolled the contents to make a package about 3 inches long by about 1.5 inches in diameter. I bound it with heavy string to get everything tightly packed and then threw it against a wall on top of a 6 floor apartment building in Santiago. It bounced off several times without exploding. I moved a bit closer and threw harder. When it went off it sounded like a cannon. You could hear the blast echoing back from the surrounding city. There was an 8" diameter blast mark left on the wall. Good times.

[Squantos]

Heeeey Hey Hey !!! Those guys weren't smuggling cocaine they were stealing trucks :o)

Stay Safe !

[gwmoore]

Question: Did they evacuate the airport like they did at (I believe SFO) last week?

Question: This guy was National Guard? I wonder how many more like him are floating around out there.

FWIW, either this guy was a complete and utter idiot, or he was a "self appointed " security screen tester. Perhaps he was hired by a media agency to try to get a story, or, even more scary, this is the best selfcheck the fedgov can come up with.

Question: Where the heck is Tom Ridge? I have not seen that guy more than one appearance since he was made "homeland security director". What is he doing? Is he actually acomplishing anything? And the BIG one: Was the anthrax a self inflicted injury by the DNC???. Funny how the distribution of that went.

Question: How many more times will the Sheeple heed the cry of "Alert, Alert" before it turns into a full blown wolfticket scenario. There are only 2 reasons for not releasing details about an alert of activity to the public (1.) Telling the public would cause more deaths than if they were kept ignorant (I call this the "gridlock nightmare scenario). or (2.) Telling the public would somehow reveal details of how the information was obtained (probably over their Official Maxwell Smart Shoe Phones (I call this one the "We really dont know a darn thing, we cant even figure out our job descriptions scenario) < /sarcasm>

Comments, as always are welcome. MAY GOD BLESS AND PROTECT THIS HONORABLE REPUBLIC

Greg

[Blood of Tyrants]

Of course refusing to allow them to search the car is probable cause enough for them to impound it and THEN get a search warrent on such grounds.

Are you being sarcastic or do you seriously believe that this is true? Refusal to give up your Fourth Amendment right against unlawful search and seizure does NOT constitute grounds to search your car or your house or anything you own. If it was, the Fourth Amendment would be worthless. Neither is "suspicious behavior" grounds to obtain a search warrant.

[zeaal]

Money talks. I wonder if it is likely for AlQuada to begin to 'recruit' run of the mill, white Americans to be unsuspecting couriers of materials that may do harm?

[NormsRevenge]

inert as in Norm Mineta's brain ... make that the FAA

[M. Peach]

First of all, you should never use LAX and evacuate in the same sentence, then you even write "explosives". This is politically uncorrect FR etiquette. Secondly, I have a question for you - If Los Angeles Airport is called LAX, what is Tampa's airport called?

[M. Peach]

Security was so tight at the airport, I saw them frisk Pamela Lee for over a half hour!

[Orangedog]

If they want to search your car, they will find reasoning that justifies their actions. A decision handed down by the US Supreme Court pretty much gives the police the okay to search your vehicle with little to no real justification. Seems that being arrested for speeding is all they need to search your car.

I wish that was being sarcastic. Sadly, I'm just stating the reality of life in the US post 9/11.

[Noumenon]

A terminal at LAX was evacuated for an hour last Wednesday when a cylinder was found in a planter near a second-floor entrance. The plastic object turned out to be harmless and no flights were delayed.

What was that? An empty Starbucks coffee cup?

[zarf]

thank god he was a white male, they have no history of violence.

[lawdog]

Turned out to be fireworks on the last caper don't know about today's.

[Lurker]

Friends don't let friends go to Starbucks.

L

[princess leah]

To answer an earlier question, it was San Francisco where the shoe explosive powder was found and they let the guy walk out of there...Now, mind you, at SFO some security personnel are x-convicts...You're valuables are being handled by a guy who spent 5 years for robbery and they let a possible terrorist walk!

[Aurelius]

Maybe if they changed their designation from "LAX" people would be less tempted to try to get away with this kind of thing.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Actually, the "weapon" they found, a rusted roofing hatchet, was their pretext to search, not the speeding.

[Don Myers]

Ref your Post 6, are you talking about the removed post? What was it?

[Don Myers]

It was a noise maker. Nothing like a little panic to make life more interesting.

[TaxPayer2000]

"You need Internet access in the shower...."

do you mean I am the only one with internet access in the shower?

[Noumenon]

Friends don't let friends go to Starbucks.

Roger that. Candace can pull a better shot and with better coffee than they do.