About time! I was complaining at the game on Saturday that no one bothered to look at the bag I was carrying except a cursory look -- I put my purse in an OU bag and the person barely looked at it and didn't even look in my daughter's purse. Looks like I wasn't the only one not happy.
That deal on halftime has changed back and forth so much I still thought we couldn't leave the stadium at halftime until I read people were going out during halftime. Glad they shut it down again like they did after 9-11! I am one of the people that stay in my seat for halftime.
UPDATE -Oklahoma - Interesting Links ON THE NET...
http://www.channeloklahoma.com/news/5057494/detail.html
"Hinrichs Tried To Buy Ammonium Nitrate"
POSTED: 5:16 pm CDT October 4, 2005
UPDATED: 6:10 pm CDT October 4, 2005
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "NORMAN, Okla. -- The general manager of a Norman feed store said Tuesday that Joel Henry Hinrichs III had inquired about purchasing a significant amount of ammonium nitrate, the primary ingredient used in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.
Dustin Ellison, the general manager of Ellison Feed & Seed on Porter Avenue, said that a man matching Hinrichs' description had come into the store days before he blew himself up on OU's campus. Ellison said the man asked about ammonium nitrate, but couldn't offer a reason why he needed it."
http://www.kotv.com/main/home/stories.asp?whichpage=1&id=91267
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1496603/posts
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/10/04/oklahoma.explosion.ap/index.html
"Dad: Oklahoma student bomber wasn't politically motivated"
Tuesday, October 4, 2005; Posted: 12:41 p.m. EDT (16:41 GMT) NORMAN, Oklahoma (AP) --
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The father of a University of Oklahoma student who committed suicide outside a packed football stadium using explosives said Monday his son didn't intend to harm anyone else or push a political agenda.
Joel Henry Hinrichs III, 21, died Saturday when a device attached to his body exploded about 8 p.m. while he sat on a bench, officials said.
The blast could be heard inside the stadium less than 100 yards away where more than 80,000 people attended OU's game against Kansas State.
Joel Hinrichs Jr. said that his son did not leave a suicide note and that FBI agents told him hydrogen peroxide was used to construct the bomb."
http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2005/US/10/04/oklahoma.explosion.ap/story.hinrichs.ap.jpg
"Joel Henry Hinrichs III in a 2002 photo."
http://www.newsok.com
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1495058/posts?page=3784#3784
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1495058/posts?q=1&&page=3901#3901
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1495058/posts?q=1&&page=3913#3913
http://www.academia.org/campus_reports/2002/february_2002_3.html
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1495058/posts?page=4015#4015
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1495058/posts?q=1&&page=4038#4038
http://newsok.com/article/1633302/?template=home/main
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1495058/posts?page=4078#4078
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10348688
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1495058/posts?q=1&&page=4127#4127
http://www.channeloklahoma.com/news/5057494/detail.html
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1495911/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1494800/posts?page=643#643
http://www.timebomb2000.com/vb/showthread.php?t=170283&page=6&pp=40
http://michellemalkin.com/archives/003668.htm
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=17737
A little OT, but maybe not, as it demonstrates the lackadaisical attitude that seems to have set in this long after 9/11. Last year, when I moved from Los Angeles to Miami, I drove cross-country on I-10 in a rental car. A few miles east of El Paso, Texas, I was stopped at a customs checkpoint. An agent came up to my window and asked, "US citizen?" I said yes. Then he asked, "Where you headed?" I said Miami from L.A. He said, "Okay, move along."
I was stunned. I had expected, at the very least, to be asked to show my DL. I was prepared to open my trunk. The agent had to tell me again to move along because I did a double-take.
Over a year later, I still can't believe the guy took my word for it that I was a US citizen, and didn't even ask to see my DL. I get asked to show my DL every time I use a credit card to buy something!
