Comments on: The Gatorade/iPod Conspiracy

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 02:23:52 +0000

Andante, you, me and most of the left keep pointing this out, but the clowns in charge aren’t listening. You work the crime, walk the streets, knock on doors, and talk to a lot of people. It’s a slog tracking down all of the leads, but it works. You can’t talk to neighbors in a tank turret or a cockpit.

Steve, that is just the standard over reaction of people who weren’t throughly briefed. They are being put under pressure without the information to understand what they are looking for. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had to get on the radio and explain to an officer on the scene that it might help if there was a little more information than “be on the lookout for a robber.”

It would also help if they put out an information sheet as to what was allowed in carry-on at the ticket counter before you got to security screening with no access to your checked baggage.

The pictures are all “borrowed” from Wikipedia fruit listings.

By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 01:58:16 +0000

Great pics, by the way. If it’s going to be a gamble to get on an airplane, it may as well look like a slot machine. 🙂

By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 01:57:23 +0000

I’m still smarting over the incident this morning with Stella’s prescription meds… pills, not liquids. I think the screeners are a bit on the touchy side and maybe haven’t quite absorbed all the new rules accurately yet.

By: andante

andante — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 01:54:20 +0000

At least, Praise the Great Flying Spaghetti Monster, we were saved from the dreaded Paintballs of Terror.

This latest bunch sounds, at the moment, like the real deal. But they were apprehended not by blasting their cities to smithereens or lobbing ‘smart’ bombs through their windows; rather by police work and intelligent use of intelligence.