[TheForge] O/T Survivor

[John Husvar]

GHS wrote:
> John, I will bow to your superior knowledge on the airplane aspect of 
> this and crawl off back into my corner, cue up Goldfinger and rethink my 
> reservations about arming plane passengers. Maybe we should issue 
> weapons to every single one... hmmm..... nah probably not,  but hmmmm.
> 
> Mike Graf


I'm not so sure myself if I'd want _everybody_ on an airliner armed 
either -- and I tend to trust people until given a reason to do otherwise.

Travelling people can get a touch antsy at times. The usual run of 
schedule fubars, luggage contretemps, and  changing planes when your 
connecting flight departed twenty minutes before yours arrived could be 
actionable as Inciting Suicide, or Murder, or worse, Flying Another Carrier.

But the result could hardly have been much worse on 9-11-01.


There was a joke around the time of all the hijackings to Cuba, etc:

Passenger jumps up, grabs a flight attendant, and holds a gun to her head.

Pilot says: "Where do you want to go? We'll do as you say. Just cool 
down, OK?"

Passenger: "Take this #$@%^%$ plane to Miami, and no side trips! I've 
been to Havana six times this year and this time I'm going to Miami FIRST!"

(Ob. metal content)
I still think we could just make a patch if the plane developed a hole 
somehow, especially now that we know we could microwave the aluminum to 
get a good fit. Otherwise what's the point of having a metalsmith aboard 
anyway?


-- 
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of
arriving safely in one pretty and well-preserved piece.
One should rather skid in broadside, thoroughly used up,
totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming -- "WOW!  WHAT A RIDE!"