Man says he forgot pipe bomb was in luggage

[MikeWM]

Darrel:

A Scenario,

A guy boards a plane with a reinforced cockpit that is locked and bullet proof. He stands up and screams I HAVE A BOX CUTTER AND I AM HIGHJACKING THIS PLANE!!!

He then gets beaten about the head and shoulders by 40 passengers. The pilot comes on the air and says "Thank You for subduing that man ladies and gentlemen we will be making an emergency landing to drop this guy off with the authorities.

Can you honestly say it would happen any other way?

And we need to learn a lesson from this. The terrorists are, unfortunately, reasonably clever people (even if they are stupid enough to blow themselves up). They knew that their tactics would work on 9/11 because people would think it was a normal hijack. They know that those tactics won’t work again. They’ll be going for another loophole. We need to be thinking - if you’ll excuse the terrible expression - ‘outside the box’, to work out what else they may try.

Mike

 

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bapcathluth:

Wow, you were lucky not to lose a hand or an eye. I’m sure my son would love to blow stuff up as well, but no way would I let him. Well, I was riding my bike all over town in second grade and going to the swimming pool on my own with friends at that age as well. Nobody where I live now would allow kids that age to do it.

I can’t say that my parents exactly allowed me to build large fire crackers. I operated more on the basis of what they didn’t know wouldn’t hurt them. You are right though, we were lucky we didn’t kill ourselves or someone else.

As you say, people today won’t let their kids, especially boys, be adventurous. Heck, my niece makes her kids wear helmets when they ride their bicycles.