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2010-01-17 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Citizen thwarts potential airport incident

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Posted by Nimble Spemble 2010-01-17 15:22|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Let's HOPE it was an accident. The alternative is that the gun was left there 'accidently on purpose' for someone else to take on a plan.

Posted by lotp 2010-01-17 16:22|| 2010-01-17 16:22|| Front Page Top

#2 I love it when you are more cynical than me. The gun was traceable. As it is this is a career ender. Under your alternative, it would have meant hard time. Not even a jihadi is that stupid. I hope.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2010-01-17 16:27|| 2010-01-17 16:27|| Front Page Top

#3 Panic about a loaded handgun?

Posted by Deacon Blues 2010-01-17 17:08|| 2010-01-17 17:08|| Front Page Top

#4 Panic because she's a sheep and sheep don't know jack about handguns.

Sheep is not an insult. Most folks are sheep, few are sheepdogs.

I share lotp's cynicism: 99% chance of stupidity, 1% chance of skullduggery.

So before I ended the agent's career for stupidity, I'd toss her/his file, contacts, records and so on VERY carefully.

Posted by Steve White 2010-01-17 17:54|| 2010-01-17 17:54|| Front Page Top

#5 The gun was traceable. As it is this is a career ender. Under your alternative, it would have meant hard time.

You're right ... unless, say, there was a massacre in the terminal, multiple customs agents dead, multiple perps, easy to imagine a female agent* disarmed in the chaos

* note: I didn't say a competant female agent ...

Posted by lotp 2010-01-17 18:34|| 2010-01-17 18:34|| Front Page Top

#6 On second thought, nah.

That would be almost as stupid as lighting your crotch on fire.

Posted by lotp 2010-01-17 18:36|| 2010-01-17 18:36|| Front Page Top

#7 Train her how to put fires out with her hands, and deputize her.
Isn't that our new counter-terrorism strategy?

Posted by lex 2010-01-17 18:57|| 2010-01-17 18:57|| Front Page Top

#8 I'm a sheep. I don't know jack about guns. These are independent sets that may or may not overlap. Sheep, sheepdog, wolf -- those are instinctual responses to the world and the people around. Sheep do their thing, sheepdogs protect the herd, wolves hunt. Among humans, some of each set have guns.

Now that we're past that, I would be very upset to spot a gun or other weapony thing in a supposedly secure area. If it looked like it was loaded, I'd be even more upset. I'm awfully glad Ms Janke was clear-minded enough to handle the situation instead of just running away. In the end, she too qualifies as a pack, not a herd.

I hope we'll find out if the customs agent is actually a sheep or a wolf, since the behavior doesn't seem sheepdog-like. What say you sheepdogs?

Posted by trailing wife 2010-01-17 21:01|| 2010-01-17 21:01|| Front Page Top

#9 "I would be very upset to spot a gun or other weapony thing in a supposedly secure area."

I'd be more upset at the probability I'd be screwed over by the "authorities" for the next few hours after reporting it, tw. A gun can't get up and hurt you all by itself. (Though it would be a little startling to find one in a secure area, as you said.)

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2010-01-17 22:46|| 2010-01-17 22:46|| Front Page Top

#10 I don't get screwed over, Barbara. Possibly because I've lived such a sheltered life that nobody has had the opportunity. But at any rate, I'm glad Ms Janke did, indeed, report the thing, despite the risk.

Posted by trailing wife 2010-01-17 23:39|| 2010-01-17 23:39|| Front Page Top

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