Chefguy, I deal with people in the transportation industry so I am always asking about anything unusual that they’ve seen. I would take the alerts seriously. There have been multiple attempts by foreign nationals (on differet airlines) to test security procedures. I think the attempts are lame but they should not be dismissed.
And I’m not sure the threat alerts are just for our benefit. I think it is a way of publicly saying we know something’s up and have increased security measures accordingly.
I don’t mean to be an alarmest, but 9/11 actually happened. I am now more aware of my surroundings when I fly.
You should just come down to Knoxville, TN. Six months here and you’ll naturally own something in Volunteer orange. It’s a delightful color. I believe they called it “blaze orange” in Maine.
I once heard about a jittery old coot in this town who said, “When I go out, I take two pistols and a rifle. There’s a lotta crazy people out there!” That was long before 9-11-2001.
Seriously, there’s little I personally can do. I can be vigilant, for what that’s worth, but I have my life to live.
Woo hoo! My parents are going to LA for a week on Saturday and guess who has to drive them to the airport at an even MORE ungodly hour!
I should take bets on how many miles away the Sentra will be from the terminal where I drop them off. At least if terrorists decide to take over the plane, my Dad and about 200 other people will tear them to shreds. Maybe they’re thinking of using empty planes–take the place of one of those drunk Virgin pilots.
I gotta agree here. I mean, we gave Bush and Co. hell because if a breakdown in intelligence that might have alerted them to 9/11. Not they are alerting us that something may be up and all we can say is “Yawn … just contact me of anything happens.”
I understand that there’s not a lot that individuals can do, but that’s not what the alert is for really. It’s for the appropriate agencies to do what they have to do to be prepared and alerted for whatever may come based on the intelligence that they now have.
Oh shit, oh shit. What should I do? I know I’ll hide under my bed! Drat, they read that too. Uhm, I’ll go to a cabin in the mountains! D’oh!!! Maybe I should stop posti
