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American idiot: Airport security edition

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  • 10-01-2010 6:41pm
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    SLUSK
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    A guy had honey in five Gatorade bottles and the morons in airport security thought it was explosives.

    "When the bottles were opened, two of the screeners smelled a strong chemical odor, complained of nausea and were rushed to a local hospital, where they treated and released, Kern County Sheriff's spokesman Michael Whorf said."
    http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN057258620100106?type=marketsNews

    How can you be so stupid that you do not know what honey looks and smells like and mistake it for some sort of explosives? Whoever hired these morons should be fired.


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    Anonymous1987
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    SLUSK wrote: »
    A guy had honey in five Gatorade bottles and the morons in airport security thought it was explosives.

    "When the bottles were opened, two of the screeners smelled a strong chemical odor, complained of nausea and were rushed to a local hospital, where they treated and released, Kern County Sheriff's spokesman Michael Whorf said."
    http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN057258620100106?type=marketsNews

    How can you be so stupid that you do not know what honey looks and smells like and mistake it for some sort of explosives? Whoever hired these morons should be fired.

    Why did you post this in US Politics? AH maybe?


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    Overheal
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    Anonymous1987 wrote: »
    Why did you post this in US Politics? AH maybe?
    He likes to make the US look incompetent yet overbearing and fascist.

    I've learned to :rolleyes: at all of it.

    But tbh I thought you were talking about the infamous Security Ninja from last week. Turns out he was just a hopeless romantic. He better hope to get a movie deal because it would be the only way to make up for all the damage caused.


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    SLUSK
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    Overheal wrote: »
    He likes to make the US look incompetent yet overbearing and fascist.

    I've learned to :rolleyes: at all of it.

    But tbh I thought you were talking about the infamous Security Ninja from last week. Turns out he was just a hopeless romantic. He better hope to get a movie deal because it would be the only way to make up for all the damage caused.
    The US has a culture of fear and paranoia which seems to make alot of Americans incapable of rational thought. This incident and many others prove my point.


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    kev9100
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    SLUSK wrote: »
    The US has a culture of fear and paranoia which seems to make alot of Americans incapable of rational thought. This incident and many others prove my point.

    Just because you keep saying stuff like that doesnt make it so.


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    SLUSK
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    kev9100 wrote: »
    Just because you keep saying stuff like that doesnt make it so.
    The acquittal of the police officers who were beating Rodney King is not a sign of the corrupt culture of fear and paranoia they have in america. The United States is corrupted beyond belief. In New York an unarmed black man was shot to death with 41 shots. They were also acquitted from all charges. The reason for this is that America is a corrupt fascist police state where the tax eaters in the police and military can get away with murder.


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    kev9100
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    Oh come on. We can all pull out isolated incidents and then use them out of context and say "this proves the US is Fascist,Communist or whatever". That type of stuff is not an argument. Its a rant.


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    SLUSK
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    kev9100 wrote: »
    Oh come on. We can all pull out isolated incidents and then use them out of context and say "this proves the US is Fascist,Communist or whatever". That type of stuff is not an argument. Its a rant.
    In which other country under the rule of law would these police officers be acquitted? Please don't tell me Broken Britain since that place is also a fascist police state.


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    kev9100
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    This is a ridicolous argument and I wish i never replied but if you want to list police states fine. North Korea.


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    SLUSK
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    kev9100 wrote: »
    This is a ridicolous argument and I wish i never replied but if you want to list police states fine. North Korea.
    In which normal democracy would these police officers have been acquitted, can you tell me that?


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    Peanut
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    Overheal wrote: »
    ...
    But tbh I thought you were talking about the infamous Security Ninja from last week. Turns out he was just a hopeless romantic. He better hope to get a movie deal because it would be the only way to make up for all the damage caused.

    It's bizarre how someone that goes the wrong way through security manages to shut down the terminal for hours and then gets vilified for the collateral damage from an over the top security reaction. How very dare he.

    How about something called proportional response, eh guys?
    Easier to turn the attention on the perp than to take responsibility for the lapse though, I suppose.


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    nesf
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    This thread has run its course.


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