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." >