Re: OT:Prevent Airline Hijacking

On Mon, 16 May 2005 16:35:53 +0000, Richard the Dreaded Libertarian wrote:

> On Sun, 15 May 2005 13:09:43 -0400, Spehro Pefhany wrote:
>
>> On 15 May 2005 16:21:48 GMT, the renowned Jim Yanik
>> <jyanik@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>You have such a low opinion of people.
>>
>> No, I was just thinking of Quentin Tarantino's _Reservoir Dogs_. ;-)
>>
> Or the Southern California freeways. It seems like there's a couple of
> freeway shootings a week lately.

Last year it was a nut in Columbus. The year before it DC. <yawn> The
nut will not long be loose.

> One kind of interesting one was where the "victim" survived. They let
> slip that he had cut across three lanes of traffic just before the
> shooter shot one of his tires. They interviewed the kid. His name
> was "Kyle", and he had a shaved head. And apparently didn't see
> anything wrong with cutting across three lanes of freeway traffic
> because you've forgotten that your exit is near.

Ah, justifiable homicide; driving under the influence of stupid.

> Those are the kind that _need_ shooting, AFAIC.

It just shows you how wrong one can be... I thought you were
simply a loser pacifist, rather than a loser hypocrite.

--
Keith
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