Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2002 10:44:36 -0500
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: papers, please
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

>"Keith F. Lynch" wrote:
>
>> Similarly with today's evacuation of LAX because someone found what
>> was obviously a toy grenade.
>
>It wasn't "obviously" a toy grenade until they opened up the guy's
>luggage and looked at it.
>

Did they check to see if he a brain?
Idiot.
Suitable punishment for such stupidy would be to turn him over to the =
passengers . . .

mjw

>That said, I think that evacuating the terminal was a bad overreaction. =

>They should have simply figured out who's luggage it was and asked him
>to open it for them.  "Oh.  A toy. Sorry to bother you."
>
>--
>Steve Smith                                           sgs at aginc.net
>Agincourt Computing                            http://www.aginc.net
>"Truth is stranger than fiction because fiction has to make sense."
>