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Excessive nose powdering draws an F16 escort; "out of an abundance of caution."
Topic Started: Sep 11 2011, 05:41 PM (132 Views)
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What is the difference between "an abundance of caution" and "complete nonsense waste of money"?

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3 held in Detroit over bathroom trips on plane

Amid anxiety over the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, police detained three passengers at Detroit's airport Sunday after the flight crew reported suspicious activity on board.

ROMULUS, Mich. — Amid anxiety over the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, police detained three passengers at Detroit's Metropolitan Airport on Sunday after the crew of the Frontier Airlines flight from Denver reported suspicious activity on board, and NORAD sent two F-16 jets to shadow the flight until it landed safely, airline and federal officials said.

Also Sunday, NORAD sent two F-16s to escort a Los Angeles-to-New York American Airlines flight after three passengers made repeated trips to the bathroom, officials said. Flight 34 landed safely at New York's Kennedy Airport. New York has been in a heightened state of security after receiving a tip of a car-bomb plot.

Frontier Flight 623, with 116 passengers on board, landed without incident in Detroit after the crew reported that two people were spending "an extraordinarily long time" in a bathroom, Frontier spokesman Peter Kowalchuck said.

Flight 623 originated in San Diego before stopping at Denver International Airport on its way to Detroit. The FBI said that the North American Aerospace Defense Command scrambled F-16 fighter jets to shadow the plane "out of an abundance of caution." In Dallas, FBI official Kevin Gentry said a rented moving truck parked at the Dallas-Fort Worth airport caused a brief scare in an area where troops returning from Middle East stints are greeted. Investigators were suspicious because the driver, a crew member of the Discovery Channel show "Sons of Guns," said, "I got a couple of guns," but Gentry says he was just waiting for a co-worker.

In Kansas City, security agents detained a man and shut down one of three terminals at the main airport in Kansas City on Sunday after detecting suspicious items inside his carry-on bag. The items tested negative for explosive materials.



The Confederate soldier was peculiar in that he was ever ready to fight, but never ready to submit to the routine duty and discipline of the camp or the march. The soldiers were determined to be soldiers after their own notions, and do their duty, for the love of it, as they thought best. Carlton McCarthy
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Sep 11 2011, 05:41 PM
What is the difference between "an abundance of caution" and "complete nonsense waste of money"?
Typically, it comes down to whether you voted for the party in power at the time.
What do you mean "we", have you got a mouse in your pocket?
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John D'Oh
Sep 11 2011, 05:43 PM
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Sep 11 2011, 05:41 PM
What is the difference between "an abundance of caution" and "complete nonsense waste of money"?
Typically, it comes down to whether you voted for the party in power at the time.

Unfortunately I think this kind of action comes from career people. Middle management feds, you can't vote them out.
The Confederate soldier was peculiar in that he was ever ready to fight, but never ready to submit to the routine duty and discipline of the camp or the march. The soldiers were determined to be soldiers after their own notions, and do their duty, for the love of it, as they thought best. Carlton McCarthy
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Aqua Letifer
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More safe.
Less free.
I cite irreconcilable differences.
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