Pear pimples for hairy fishnuts!
(Sorry…couldn’t resist…)
You mean this scene? 
The way I remember it, they we’ren’t nearly annoying as the almost militant Pro-Nuclear power guys. Protesters in suits, even. When you declined to look at their stuff, they were all, ooh, no electricity for you!:rolleyes:
You made me laugh. Thanks.
Me too.
Sorry, I haven’t read the whole thread, but I just wanted to comment that there was a time in my adult memory when you could walk right into the airport, go straight to the gate, and board your plane. No muss, no fuss, no bother.
Cheap entertainment for me and my first husband was just to go out to the airport (Love Field in Dallas) and hang around the way a later generation used to hang around at malls. (This was before malls.)
Malls are older than airplanes. 
I remember all of that back in the 70’s. Hare Krishnas trying to claim they were only giving out flowers and then asking if the person wanted to make a donation in the face of the obvious fact that many of their people were very aggressive about trying to solicit these “donations”.
My memory of airports in the 70s is similar; several H.K.s would stand in front of you blocking you while one shoved a thick book in your direction and strongly requested money in exchange for the book. I never gave them any.
I am surprised that no one has mentioned the anti-HK clickers.
Some enterprising soul started distributing these little clickers and the idea was that when you saw an HK descending upon some poor sap, all the regular flyers in the area would pull out their clickers, point them at the HK, and start clicking. I only saw it actually happen a couple of times, but it worked, they went scurrying away.
And your point would be?? Anyway, we didn’t have a mall nearby.
Where I used to work one woman drove a pickup truck with a “Feed Jane Fonda to the Whales” bumper sticker on the back. People would ask her, “What do you have against whales?”
I was solicited once by a HK who insisted I take his book.
After I accepted the book and tried to continue on my way, he said, “That will be ten dollars” :rolleyes:
They & the above-mentioned ProNuclear folk were both LaRouchies.
In this election year, I miss Lyndon & his half-hour lunatic docummercials.
I started travelling about 1996. For the first two years, I got hit-up at LAX by HKs & various Christian “missions” for donations- no one to actually give out literature or share their faith- just donations. But since 1998, I think, nothing.
Sorry, so what happened? Did all the sects get barred from airports or is this just a consequence of greater security post 2001?
And here we are on Tuesday, September 11, 2012. Timely. Nowdays we get to enjoy all the TSA idiocy that those terrorists have provoked.
Well, since you cannot just wander around the airport anymore without a ticket, there is a lot less available area for them to play in. Security is also a lot tighter and they have less patience for this nonsense.
I kinda suspect a couple of years of handing out books and THEN asking for money also took a toll.
I remember being annoyed by a Hare Krishna at O’Hare in maybe 2004. He handed me a copy of the Bhagavad Gita, which I might’ve been interested enough to attempt to read, and then named a price that was surprisingly high. It might’ve been $20 or $40 and that was the end of that.
Interesting that this tangent popped up in this thread. A man confessed to killing Patz in May, although nobody seems sure if he’s telling the truth.
I never noticed Hare Krishnas or any other religious maniacs at New York City airports in the Seventies… but Port Authority Bus Terminal was always crawling with them!