Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2002 11:22:20 -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>

>Michael Walsh wrote:
>>
>> >"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 . . .
>
>"A brain" is not required for air travel.  Just ID.

Well a ticket helps too . . .

One can only shake one's head in wonderment at the gross lack of common =
sense that some people have.

Oh well . .

mjw

>
>Once Upon A Time, I was coming back to Dulles from the UK.  On the
>people eater from the plane to the terminal, a Jerk started saying
>things (loudly) like "I hope they don't find the cocaine, yuck yuck!"
>It was fun watching his "friends" try to get him to shut up.  They
>weren't gentle.
>
>--
>Steve Smith                                           sgs at aginc.net
>Agincourt Computing                            http://www.aginc.net
>"Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum
>immane mittam."
>