Well, it appears the terrorists know how to strike at our core: Further attacks on airliners using deranged naked people. I’m pretty sure another unclad guy was supposed to join him in the cabin for some hot, public, man-on-man mile-high-club action to really terrorize us; but perhaps the accomplice was intercepted while also trying to board, leaving this sorry fellow no option but daredevil public spectacle.
This does tell us a lot about the effectiveness of said fences.
Hmmm, how much would it cost to upgrade all the fences at all the aiports in the US? And make them cut-proof, or make cuts ring alarms… And have people on duty to intercept this potential soon-to-be-martyr-for-Allah before he can do damage???
On the other hand, if a naked crazy guy can climb a fence and make into the wheelwell of a 747, what’s to keep a real badguy with a backpack of explosives from blowing up a 747 during the take-off roll? All he has to do is get onto the rear landing gear at the start of the roll and detonate when they start rotating the nose up and that airliner is pretty much a ball of burning jet-fuel.
That’s why we didn’t bother to put a fence around the airport I use – instead, we lock up the hardware when it isn’t being used. A naked man might be able to scale a fence, but it will take him a long time to chew through a steel prop lock.
Maybe, at major airports, we could station snipers in little bunkers along all the runways so they can shoot down the next psycho running about the place. :rolleyes:
Yesterday at work I was in and out of the back of a 737. Finally there was some screaming and moaning and a liquid was shot all over the place. Some of the liquid got on me but the hole I was in was drenched. Some even dripped out onto the floor. The mess was cleaned up and a new airplane is just about ready for delivery to Ryanair. I wasn’t naked either, I was wearing protection.
I think the difficulty level would be proportional to the speed of the plane. As the plane was just backing out from the gate, it probably wasn’t moving very quickly.