Teen arrested in hijacking plot.

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Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 4:03 am

Well... All I have to say is "How do you overpower a flight crew with yarn?"

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/01/25/flight.incident/

Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 4:09 am

Well, he did want to crash a plane into a Hannah Montana concert! Our buddy here is not the picture of mental health....

Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 4:17 am

OOoooh weasy you damn plagiarizer I found that story!

"The suspect was released on the condition that he ensure that the plane only hit Billy Ray Cyrus" Laughing

Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 4:28 am

^^ Sorry reaper, those are my own words in my post. The only thing I cut and pasted was the link I Googled. Wink

Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 4:45 am

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In the teen's possession were handcuffs... Authorities noted that those are not prohibited items.

Excuse me?? Shocked

My oldest daughter had a pair of 'decorative' handcuffs that clipped to her belt. When she tried to enter the airport, we were accosted by security, and hustled off to a secure room, where we were questioned for nearly one hour. We finally had to return to luggage check-in, and pay to have the 'handcuffs' packaged and shipped along with her flight! Evil or Very Mad

Note...this was 10 years before September 11.

Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 4:47 am

My Dad's nail clippers were confiscated because of the nail file.

Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 5:00 am

My Grandmothers nail clippers were taken off her, she was 83 years old.

I remember seeing a thread about Airport customs a while ago..

Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 5:01 am

As somebody living half way around the world away from friends and family I sometimes have the joy to meet airport-staff.

I totally agree that security is necessary, but hey, taking away the lighter I have in the front-pocket of my pants (and happen to put into that plastic box for the scan) and not checking my backpack properly (which contained another handful of lighters) is stupid.

Once at Heathrow I told the girl who checked my things that I could better hijack a plane with the book I was reading (was some brain-buster written by Stephen King) than with a lighter.
What am I supposed to say: "Hey, fly that plane to Kabul or I burn your finger!"?
Same goes for nail-cutters: "I'm gonna cut everybody's toenails if you don't do what I want!"
How about poking somebody's eyes out with your fingers? That's probably more likely to happen than somebody trying to hijack a plane with a nail-clipper!

These are measures I really cannot understand. Also that I'm not supposed to bring my Coke... When I flew to the States I had to drink two small bottles of Coke while having my bag checked.

But the best thing is, they take away all your stuff, and then you get metal cutlery with your in-flight-dinner... Happened to my parents!

Well, here's my suggestion for total air-travel-security: Strap people naked to their seats! And make sure that I sit with the hot girls!

Another advice: Never say "Hi" to your friend Jack when you see him in the plane. "Hi Jack!" might easily be misunderstood by aircraft-staff...

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Quote:

"How do you overpower a flight crew with yarn?"

Oh! I know the answer to this! jump_4_joy

The pilots were kittens?

Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 5:31 am

Tsnerd wrote:

The pilots were kittens?

No, fluffy bunnies!

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So he took a flight, nothing happened and then they arrested him. For what?

Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 2:26 pm

^^ Thought crimes Rolling Eyes

Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 2:37 pm

Airport security at Heathrow once asked me if I had a secret compartment in my suitcase bottom. So I had to say yes, didn't I?? Luckily this was several years before September 11, so at least I wasn't locked up for it. They were a tad cross tho.... Twisted Evil

Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 3:40 pm

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My oldest daughter had a pair of 'decorative' handcuffs that clipped to her belt.

Errr, care to elaborate? I can't imagine why first of all, and exactly what secondly..

Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 7:39 pm

419weasel wrote:

... "How do you overpower a flight crew with yarn?" ...

Bore them to death with long, old, improbable stories?

Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 7:48 pm

^^KD, Hahahaha!

Trophy Videos · Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 9:59 pm

^^hehehe KD! My grandpa used to put us all to sleep with his yarns all the time. Once asleep, the crew would be helpless.

Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 10:02 pm

He must have been a mastermind. He planned on using the duct tape and yarn to Rambo the guards and crew, then using the locking mechanism from the handcuffs to pick the lock on the door to the cabin, then subduing the pilots/navigator by banging them over the head with what remains of the handcuff. Then flying an airliner that he has no experience flying (unless he has a really nice flight simulator, but then there would be no reason to suicide, would there?), he would maneuver around the f-16s that the FAA called in when the pilot sent the emr freq (a frequency that the radio is set to to alert of a possible hijacking aboard), and then find the stadium and crash the plane. Rolling Eyes

Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 1:09 am

Seriously, has anyone of those feckwits in TSA flown cattle class into the USA?

You have no way of getting out of your seat without help, ok, this has been on UA and AA, when you do manage to get out, the crew stand in front of you blocking any forward movement, in case you make a rush for the cockpit

then they are there outside the toilets when you emerge with sniffers to make sure you haven't left some explosive in there, despite all of my carry on being subjected to a strip down and sniffer before I board

Paraonia reigns

If I could get to where I want to go without flying through the USA I'll take it

Western Union · Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 1:47 am

I had half a packet of Wrigley�s Extra confiscated a few months ago. I think the security lady was just out of gum.

Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 1:51 am

^^ Gum?

What did she think you were going to do with it, chew it in someone's ear on the plane?

Western Union · Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 1:53 am

Well, that is really annoying... Laughing

Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 1:57 am

To quote Grandpa Simpson KD:

Quote:

"We can�t bust heads like we used to, but we have our ways. One trick is to tell 'em stories that don�t go anywhere�like the time I caught the ferry over to Shelbyville. I needed a new heel for my shoe, so, I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. 'Give me five bees for a quarter,' you�d say.

"Now where were we? Oh yeah�the important thing was that I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. They didn�t have white onions because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones..."

Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 1:59 am

^^^^^ ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

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