Crazy People & Fighter Escorts Re: [MilCom] 2 Protesters climb on wingof F/A-22 Raptor at NASOceana airshow

[Joe Cobb]

I can't speak for other incidents but these morons who
got on top of one of our most advanced fighters of all
time need to have the book thrown at them, not for
protesting but for climbing on a plane that until
Sunday I haven't had the pleasure of seeing unlike
most of the rest of ya'll that live in milair
(fighter) rich environments.  How they were able to do
it needs to be addressed and there punishment needs to
be something other than a slap on the wrist.  Mentally
ill or not, if i was at the airshow and saw them i
might have pummeled them myself.  There are other ways
to get your message across.  Go jump on a train, bus,
or something but leave MY aircraft out of it.   End of
soap box.

Joe
Nashville, Tn.

PS:  By the way i still didn't get to see the F-22
very well at the game.  It flew over but it never did
land.   It'll be a cold day in that place below us, if
ever before a podunk airshow in Tennessee will see
that plane up close.  I guess not enough possible
technical saavy recruits in this area.   

Later ya'll.

--- Tom Greenwood <TheGreenwoods1 at Verizon.net> wrote:

> Sounds like we are going back to the days of
> treating the mentally ill as if
> they were criminals.  Just to show how much we have
> improved, we'll treat
> them as if they were terrorists too!  Makes you
> wonder who is crazier, those
> who are truly mentally ill or those who have been
> now trained to be
> suspicious of everybody!
> 
> Real progress for society!
> 
> Tom
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: milcom-bounces at mailman.qth.net
> [mailto:milcom-bounces at mailman.qth.net]On Behalf Of
> Ken
> Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2006 15:05
> To: jeff; A Mills
> Cc: milcom QTH list
> Subject: Crazy People & Fighter Escorts Re: [MilCom]
> 2 Protesters climb
> on wingof F/A-22 Raptor at NASOceana airshow
> 
> 
> The lady has/had mental problems (claustrophobic &
> panic attacks).
> see: 
>
http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2006/08/about_that_dive.html
> 
> Her major attack was urinating on the aircraft
> corridor floor.  Plan "B" was
> implemented in that the Federal Air Marshals
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Air_Marshal
> took charge.  I'd assume
> that even if there wasn't any air marshal's on the
> plane some of the
> passengers would take appropriate action if they
> felt that she was going to
> try to open the external door, etc.
> 
> Frankly very long flights confined in an aircraft
> can be very stressful.  I
> can still remember my flight to & return from a 15
> month tour of duty in the
> Middle East on a commercial airlines many years ago.
>  It was A VERY LONG
> FLIGHT!!!  I like the idea that the military was
> experimenting with awhile
> back that would give the troops a drug that would
> allow them to get the
> necessary rest enroute and so that they would not be
> tired when they landed
> to perform their mission.
> 
> Ken
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "jeff" <jeffv at op.net>
> To: "A Mills" <samand42 at alltel.net>
> Cc: "milcom QTH list" <milcom at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2006 12:14 PM
> Subject: RE: [MilCom] 2 Protesters climb on wing of
> F/A-22 Raptor at
> NASOceana airshow
> 
> 
> >
> > Remember within the last month, an airline took
> some `crazy lady' off a
> > flight?  I was reading the story - she was
> mumbling about terrorism and
> > wouldn't be quiet.  IIRC, the plane had some
> assistance, in the form of
> > F-15's, in landing.
> >
> > Her luggage was gone through and was found to
> contain all sorts of
> > things that were being screened for at the airport
> (none of them
> > explosive).  It was revealed that the lady had
> gone through screening
> > twice before boarding the plane because she looked
> suspicious.
> >.... snip..snip..
> > I don't know about you, but I think there needs to
> be a Plan B.
> > Screening is proving to be rather unsuccessful.
> 
> 
>
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