posted on January 15, 2004 05:13:09 PM new
Some of the so-called security measures they are taking for airline passengers are just getting ridiculous. C'mon--unless you have people board the plane naked (& following a cavity search) & require they be shackled hand & foot to their seats, people will just have to live with the fact that there is always going to be some risk factor in flying. And even then, a paranoic will think, what if someone gets onboard with a bomb implanted in their abdomen....
It would solve a lot of fears & problems if they'd just fit planes with cockpit doors that can't be gotten through and install vents controlled by the pilot that could emit a sleeping gas of some kind at the first sign of trouble.
posted on January 15, 2004 06:58:02 PM new
Or you could issue everybody getting on board a baseball bat.
The gun haters would be satisfied - no accidental discharge could depressurize the plane - the pilots would not have to be nervous about the guns in back and it would take a really really tough group of hijackers to defeat a mob with baseball bats. Even if they had some silly little box cutters or nail clippers.
With the DNA testing they have now you could still probably ID the hijackers later.
