[conservatrice]

"I don't think they needed to use deadly force with the guy," says John McAlhany, a 44-year-old construction worker from Sebastian, Fla.

Gee, I didn't know that construction workers were as highly trained as air marshalls.

"I never heard the word 'bomb' on the plane," McAlhany told TIME in a telephone interview. "I never heard the word bomb until the FBI asked me did you hear the word bomb. That is ridiculous."

You mean to say that you never heard the word "bomb" while you were busy talking on your cell phone with your brother? What a shock!

[mosquitobite]

And don't forget

He says it would have been impossible for Alpizar to lie flat on the floor of the plane, as marshals ordered him to do, with the fanny pack on. "You can't get on the ground with a fanny pack," he says. "You have to move it to the side."

Umm, ok dumbass... it might have been UNCOMFORTABLE to lie on top of the fanny pack, but you bet your ass I WOULD if an air marshall was ordering me to & had a gun pointed at me!

[trisham]

You mean to say that you never heard the word "bomb" while you were busy talking on your cell phone with your brother? What a shock!

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Good point. I didn't think of that when I was reading the article, but you're right. It may also have affected his ability to recall visual details.

[freema]

His whole story doesn't wash. They kept telling him to get down, he didn't. He was on the phone. And he was ready to break someone's neck............WHY? In case there were terrorists????? With a bomb????????

[Jigsaw John]

You mean to say that you never heard the word "bomb" while you were busy talking on your cell phone with your brother? What a shock!

Just a guess, but if I were on board an aircraft waiting to depart, and some guy was runninig up and down the isle yelling "I have a bomb" I don't think my cell phone conversation would distract me from hearing and seeing something like that.