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Re: AS11296 -- Hijacked?
From: JC Dill <jcdill.lists () gmail com>
Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2010 15:48:34 -0700
Bryan Fields wrote:
Here's an incident where the "local authorities" didn't know what to do about a possibly very worrisome incident at SJC (San Jose International Airport):On 10/1/2010 17:12, George Bonser wrote:Citizen: "Hello, police? There is a crate of M-16's and a truckload of ammunition just sitting here on the corner" Police: "That is less than the Army goes through in 3 months ... *click*"You'd have better luck calling the ATF, they are the ones empowered to enforce the tax on machine guns. The local police do not have any authority to enforce those taxes, and could get sued if they tried to.
<http://forums.mercurynews.com/topic/two-men-armed-with-assault-weapons-barely-cause-a-stir-at-mineta-san-jose-international-airpor>The problem is that people don't *think* - they just follow orders, follow their training. No one had thought about or trained for this type of incident. Fortunately, in this case, the people were not terrorists. Meanwhile, TSA confiscates bottles of shampoo and water.
jc
Current thread:
- RE: AS11296 -- Hijacked?, (continued)
- RE: AS11296 -- Hijacked? George Bonser (Oct 01)
- RE: AS11296 -- Hijacked? George Bonser (Oct 01)
- Re: AS11296 -- Hijacked? William Herrin (Oct 01)
- RE: AS11296 -- Hijacked? George Bonser (Oct 01)
- RE: AS11296 -- Hijacked? George Bonser (Oct 01)
- Re: AS11296 -- Hijacked? Owen DeLong (Oct 01)
- Re: AS11296 -- Hijacked? Steven Bellovin (Oct 02)
- Re: AS11296 -- Hijacked? John Curran (Oct 01)
- Re: AS11296 -- Hijacked? Bryan Fields (Oct 01)
- RE: AS11296 -- Hijacked? Nathan Eisenberg (Oct 01)
- Re: AS11296 -- Hijacked? JC Dill (Oct 01)
- Re: AS11296 -- Hijacked? Owen DeLong (Oct 01)
- Re: AS11296 -- Hijacked? Christopher Morrow (Oct 01)
- Re: AS11296 -- Hijacked? John Curran (Oct 02)
- Re: AS11296 -- Hijacked? James Hess (Oct 02)
- Re: AS11296 -- Hijacked? (ARIN region & hijacking) John Curran (Oct 02)
- RE: AS11296 -- Hijacked? (ARIN region & hijacking) George Bonser (Oct 02)