It has been a staple of sci-fi for at least 50 years, the
explosive alien. It has been done on every Star Trek
version, and other shows too.

As for Richard Reed, the shoe bomber with matches and fuses.
The terrorists use electronics, batteries and very
sophisticated remote detonators by using cellphones,
disposable cameras, etc.
Richard Reed was probably sitting in his seat, elbowing the
guy next to him to get him to see the matches. The whole
purpose of that was to get us to take our shoes off and slow
down the lines.

In Israel, the bombers attack the lines before they get to a
security point.

The idea of flying nude raises some questions about safety,
clothes protect the body from fire and injury in a crash.
In a wilderness, clothes keep you alive. But as long as the
women are attractive, I have no objection to having to be
naked to fly. Of course, the really ugly, fat men and women
will have to be sedated and hidden.
They will have to screen for child molesters in addition to
terrorists. But we do have laws that require them to
register after a first conviction. To bad we can't get the
terrorists to register, it would make the security job
easier.

All this should increase sales of VLJ and regular business
airplanes. I'm sure Skylune must be rooting for the
terrorists as long as the noise and wreckage don't fall near
his home.



"Emily" wrote in message
. ..
| Jim Macklin wrote:
| Are those fun bags saline or liquid explosive?
|
| Did that fellow have plastic explosive surgery?
|
| Instead of drugs, did they swallow explosives?
|
| Ideas like these?
|
| I think I've told this story here before, but I heard
Ollie North tell a
| great story an incident at Raleigh just after the shoe
bomber incident.
| Basically, when the TSA told him to take off his shoes
and he asked
| why, the TSA officer said, "Well, sir, I don't know if
you heard about
| this, but someone tried to blow up a plane with his shoe."
North looked
| at him and said, "So what happens when someone tries to
blow up a plane
| with his underwear." Next thing he knew, he was up
against the wall
| waiting for the cops to show up to deal with the guy with
the bomb in
| his underwear.
|
| The TSA officer has no idea who he was, but the cops did
when they
| showed up. He said even after the cops called him Colonel
North and
| explained to the TSA officer who he was, he still didn't
know. I'm
| really not sure what that says about the TSA.
|
| My brother's idea is just to make everyone fly naked.