# Scotland Yard revealed a part of what was behind the Orange Alert **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 8, 2004, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scotland-yard-revealed-a-part-of-what-was-behind-the-orange-alert/223463 "2004-01-08T17:57:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2004, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scotland-yard-revealed-a-part-of-what-was-behind-the-orange-alert/223463/21 "2004-01-09T03:34:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by misstee \* > \*\*Seriously, what is this going to lead too? Body cavity searches of everyone? \*\* Oh man, I sure hope so… I’m gonna fly every week if that happens. ---
**Author:** ![Spavined\_Gelding](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@Spavined\_Gelding](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spavined_Gelding)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2004, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scotland-yard-revealed-a-part-of-what-was-behind-the-orange-alert/223463/22 "2004-01-09T03:45:57Z")
An just what do you suppose might be the capacity of the average/ordinary uterus? Given that capacity, what sort of explosive might be concealed there in that would bring down an airliner? Assuming all this is not a joke it is proof beyond any argument that the inmates have taken over the asylum. ---
**Author:** ![Macrophage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/87869e/32.png) [@Macrophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Macrophage)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2004, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scotland-yard-revealed-a-part-of-what-was-behind-the-orange-alert/223463/23 "2004-01-09T05:30:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by french frog \* > \*\*Wow. Uterror. > > New security plan : one plane for men. one for women. > > Or… every body naked ! > > [http://www.naked-air.com/03flight.htm](http://www.naked-air.com/03flight.htm) \*\* I don’t buy that they do it because they’re just comfortable with their bodies. I’m sure they had a mile-high orgy right after those pics where taken. ---
**Author:** ![clayton\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@clayton\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clayton_e)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2004, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scotland-yard-revealed-a-part-of-what-was-behind-the-orange-alert/223463/24 "2004-01-09T05:36:26Z")
Crap. I forgot that most nudists, as with much of any other group of people, are not attractive. ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2004, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scotland-yard-revealed-a-part-of-what-was-behind-the-orange-alert/223463/25 "2004-01-09T05:59:19Z")
Notwithstanding that I really don’t consider the New York Post a legitimate point of intelligence, even more so a legitimate newspaper. . . Notwithstanding that I’m a guy and don’t have a vagina or uterus with which to stuff explosives. . . Notwithstanding I may either grossly underestimate or overestimate the volume of cargo capacity of aforesaid uterus. . . Notwithstanding that it’s a known fact people have used bodily orifices to smuggle drugs to this date. . . Notwithstanding that according to the NY Post, she planned on blowing a hole in the crapper in the hopes it would bring the airliner down. . . To coin a phrase, I’m aghastly shitless! If Richard Reid was stupid enough to get caught with a C4 substitute in his shoe, at what point will the suicidal terrorists stop? Granted, y’all may think it’s silly to stuff half a pound of C4 up your ass, but if it takes out the flight deck. . . :eek: Tripler I’m reading between the lines here, but then again, I’m on your side. ---
**Author:** ![Anonymous\_Coward](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/94ad74/32.png) [@Anonymous\_Coward](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anonymous_Coward)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2004, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scotland-yard-revealed-a-part-of-what-was-behind-the-orange-alert/223463/26 "2004-01-09T13:15:54Z")
What about C4 boob jobs? No one would expect a MOABB (Mother of all boob bombs). Seriously. ---
**Author:** ![bluecanary](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bluecanary/32/3614_2.png) [@bluecanary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bluecanary)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2004, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scotland-yard-revealed-a-part-of-what-was-behind-the-orange-alert/223463/27 "2004-01-09T13:28:47Z")
For the UK readers, this was in the _Daily Mirror_ last Saturday! (i.e. January 3) ---
**Author:** ![Ilsa\_Lund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a6a055/32.png) [@Ilsa\_Lund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ilsa_Lund)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2004, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scotland-yard-revealed-a-part-of-what-was-behind-the-orange-alert/223463/28 "2004-01-09T13:31:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by french frog \* > \*\*Wow. Uterror. > > New security plan : one plane for men. one for women. > > Or… every body naked ! > > [http://www.naked-air.com/03flight.htm](http://www.naked-air.com/03flight.htm) \*\* AAAHAHAHHAAAAHHH@!!! AAAAAGGAGAGAHHHHHH!HH!!! AAAGGAHAHHAHHAHHHAHAHAHAHGAGAGHAHHAGAGAGAGHH!!!11 :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: ---
**Author:** ![js\_africanus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@js\_africanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/js_africanus)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2004, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scotland-yard-revealed-a-part-of-what-was-behind-the-orange-alert/223463/29 "2004-01-09T13:54:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tripler \* > \*\*If Richard Reid was stupid enough to get caught with a C4 substitute in his shoe, at what point will the suicidal terrorists stop? \*\* I think the stupid part was trying to set it off with a match. “What do you think you’re doing?” “I’m going to BLOW UP this plane with the explosives in my shoe!!” “I can _see_ that. But what are you using for the primer?” ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2004, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scotland-yard-revealed-a-part-of-what-was-behind-the-orange-alert/223463/30 "2004-01-09T14:24:05Z")
. . . Looks like we’re going to have to call in the T.W.A.T. team . . . ---
**Author:** ![ElwoodCuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/edb3f5/32.png) [@ElwoodCuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElwoodCuse)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2004, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scotland-yard-revealed-a-part-of-what-was-behind-the-orange-alert/223463/31 "2004-01-09T14:45:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Larry Mudd \* > \*\*So if you _do_ have specific information, it _would_ be possible to give every woman a BCS? What? \*\* must…resist…college…football…joke… ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2004, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scotland-yard-revealed-a-part-of-what-was-behind-the-orange-alert/223463/32 "2004-01-09T14:51:18Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by js\_africanus \* > \*\*“I can _see_ that. But what are you using for the primer?” \*\* Touché . . . 😉 What would she use, bl **ASS** ting caps? :dubious: Tripler Okay, sorry. That was all I had at 7:50AM. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2004, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scotland-yard-revealed-a-part-of-what-was-behind-the-orange-alert/223463/33 "2004-01-09T15:34:31Z")
**Tripler** has a point about the story being in the NY _Post_. It’s odd that this story is all over the airwaves in the US but the Google hardly found any reports in the print media. The fears were probably prompeted by this: > [@](#): > > [Sunday Herald](http://www.sundayherald.com/39093) > THE sudden movement of large numbers of highly trained al-Qaeda terrorists across the Middle East triggered the panic over possible attacks on Western aircraft which led to the grounding of international flights to the United States last week. > > The Sunday Herald has learned that the US raised its terror alert to Code Orange – the second highest level – on December 21 when Washington discovered that trained al-Qaeda terrorists had been leaving their strongholds and hideouts in the Hadhramouth area east of the Yemeni capital of Sanaa. > > The operatives have moved north and west bearing large quantities of shoulder-launched ground-to-air missiles, a selection of other weapons and a variety of explosives. > > This came as US homeland security chief Tom Ridge spoke of substantially increased intelligence that extremists were planning an attack to surpass the 9/11 atrocities. > > Just a few days ago, the Italian newspaper Il Giornale carried a front-page story with the headline “Al-Qaeda: We will destroy New York within 35 days”. ---
**Author:** ![pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudotriton_ruber_ruber)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2004, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scotland-yard-revealed-a-part-of-what-was-behind-the-orange-alert/223463/34 "2004-01-09T16:19:45Z")
Ms. Robyn wrote: "Dude, that’s just… I dunno. " Not funny? Hostile to women? Hilarious? So old? Come on, don’t keep me in suspense here. ---
**Author:** ![Mehitabel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Mehitabel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mehitabel)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2004, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scotland-yard-revealed-a-part-of-what-was-behind-the-orange-alert/223463/35 "2004-01-09T17:08:13Z")
I can’t get over the “she-bomber”. Maybe it’s a takeoff on shoe-bomber. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2004, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scotland-yard-revealed-a-part-of-what-was-behind-the-orange-alert/223463/36 "2004-01-09T17:17:12Z")
> [@](#): > > “Al-Qaeda: We will destroy New York within 35 days” Crap. Can I get my money back from Weight Watchers? ---
**Author:** ![js\_africanus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@js\_africanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/js_africanus)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2004, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scotland-yard-revealed-a-part-of-what-was-behind-the-orange-alert/223463/37 "2004-01-09T17:17:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mehitabel \* > \*\*I can’t get over the “she-bomber”. \*\* I can’t wait for the “shemale-bomber.” _That’s not a stick of dynamite in my pocket, but I am a terrorist!_ ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2004, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scotland-yard-revealed-a-part-of-what-was-behind-the-orange-alert/223463/38 "2004-01-10T07:10:59Z")
I know I said the same thing about the guy who stuck the firecracker up his ass but… FIRE IN THE HOLE!!! Hey, seriously, maybe she’s desensitized to most vibrators, so… ---
**Author:** ![El\_Elvis\_Rojo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@El\_Elvis\_Rojo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Elvis_Rojo)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2004, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scotland-yard-revealed-a-part-of-what-was-behind-the-orange-alert/223463/39 "2004-01-10T08:07:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SpectBrain \* > \*\*Weapons of Ass Destruction :eek: \*\* Am I the only one that read this? Come on people, give **SpectBrain** some props, that was fucking funny! ---
**Author:** ![medstar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f07891/32.png) [@medstar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/medstar)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2004, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scotland-yard-revealed-a-part-of-what-was-behind-the-orange-alert/223463/40 "2004-01-11T03:00:04Z")
Looks like **auntie em** has got lots of ‘splainin’ to do if she flies any time soon. She’d better allow for several hours with security ( I hope their instruments are warm). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scotland-yard-revealed-a-part-of-what-was-behind-the-orange-alert/223463.md?page=1)