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Just wondering................POLL

4000fps4000fps Member Posts: 786 ✭✭
edited September 2001 in General Discussion
Would anyone get on a plane today?Me...NO Don't trust those damn people.
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  • mudgemudge Member Posts: 4,225 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    WOULD I get on a plane today?Sure.COULD I get on a plane today?Not without having to fight off those couple of hundred thousand people who got stranded yesterday. I used to work an airline ticket counter (in my ute) and I fall down on my knees and thank the Lord I'm not at one of them today. I'm talking angry people BIG TIME today.Mudge
    Anyone who CAN carry, SHOULD carry!
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  • Bubba JoelBubba Joel Member Posts: 5,161
    edited November -1
    Would I get on a plane today, if I could....YESWould I be armed when I get on a plane....YESI meant to say: I would have to be armed, if I got on one.....[This message has been edited by Bubba Joel (edited 09-12-2001).]
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  • bfairbfair Member Posts: 250 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I don't get on planes any day
    When you come to a fork in the road...Take itSemper Paratus
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  • gad38gad38 Member Posts: 179 ✭
    edited November -1
    I don't think God meant for this old fat boy to fly!!!!!!
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  • kimberkidkimberkid Member Posts: 8,858 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    My wife flew out of KCI yesterday at 6:20am to visit her folks in Chadron Ne. and was stranded in Denver with our (almost) 1 year old daughter & luggage. She was able to arrange transportation on the "Denver Coach" (bus) for the rest of the trip ... 3 hour (by air) trip ended up taking 15 hours.On the "up-side" Abby was great the whole time and employees of United were very helpful as were complete strangers that saw her strugling with luggage, car seat and child ... to all the nameless/faceless strangers that assisted her, my deepest thanks ... words can't express
    GUN CONTROL: If you're not outraged, you're not paying attention!kimberkid@gunbroker.zzn.com
    If you really desire something, you'll find a way ?
    ? otherwise, you'll find an excuse.
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  • concealedG36concealedG36 Member Posts: 3,566 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    My mom and brother are scheduled to fly to Austria tonight at 7:00 p.m. Apparently, the FAA hasn't allowed planes to fly yet. I don't know how I feel, I'm nervous but when WILL it be okay to fly? I mean, if we change our daily lives then the terrorist wins, right? I asked them if they were going to postpone the flight and they said no. The cost was a couple thousand bucks and they are going to pick up my sick grandmother. So, I guess they have to go. I am not religious, but I hope that some of you are. If my brother and mother get on a plane tonight PLEASE pray for them!Thanks,G36
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  • adminadmin Member, Administrator Posts: 1,079 admin
    edited November -1
    I sure will. Airlines expect a 50% decline in air travel as a result of this. Ticket prices will drop to get folks flying again and I will take some long-overdue vacations. Even with yesterday's events flying is still safer than driving.The only reason that yesterday's events happened was that airport/airline security has been lulled into a near coma by ten years of absolutely nothing happening. If you have flown any time recently you can see it in the glassy-eyed look of the dufus x-raying your bags and the lolly-gagging attitude of the other goofballs standing around. I typically travel with enough electronics to run a data center and I never even get asked to turn the laptop on.It has been so long since a hijacking that the pilots didn't even imagine that such a thing could be happening. That was yesterday. I am 100% certain that tomorrow no pilot will open his locked cockpit door.Even the most minimal security precautions would have prevented yesterday's events from taking place. For the last five years we have left the door wide open and we yesterday we returned home to find our TV and stereo missing.Folks, terrorism is designed to make you afraid and to change your way of life. In this case it appears to be working. With a single act the terrorists have basically shut our country down. And they may have torpedoed our economy as well (what may happen with the stock market really scares me). The sad thing is that we are letting them do it by huddling in our homes, hording gas, toilet paper, etc, and being afraid. Some folks are even talking about trading in our freedom, our rights for a false sense of security.As sad as this event was, we cannot allow it to completely change our lives. If we panic we will fulfill the terrorists dreams by living in fear and sinking our own (and the world's) economy.DON'T LET THEM DO IT TO US! Remember what has happened but don't dwell on it. Go about your lives as before this tragedy. The economy will recover, our skies and work places will be safe, and for most of us our lives will return to normal. Kennedy said "there is nothing to fear but fear itself". Don't them the fear run your life.
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  • nunnnunn Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 36,084 ******
    edited November -1
    I don't fly. I won't fly unless I am at the controls and I have no training. I know how to drive, so that is how I go. Don't give me the statistics. Not interested. Stats are skewed. Here are mine. How many fatal crashes have I been involved in since I started driving in 1968? Zero.Besides, I can carry a gun when I drive. And I can repel unwanted boarders.
    Certified SIG pistol armorer/FFL Dealer/Full time Peace Officer, Moderator and Supreme Ruler of the General Discussion Board on Gunbroker. Email davidnunn@texoma.net Jesus is Lord![This message has been edited by nunn (edited 09-12-2001).]
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  • LowriderLowrider Member Posts: 6,587
    edited November -1
    I'm with bfair and Gad38. If I want to go somewhere, I'll drive. If I can't get there by private vehicle, I don't need to go.
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  • Shootist3006Shootist3006 Member Posts: 4,171
    edited November -1
    I'm with Bubba Joel on this. It will be a while before I will get on a plane UNARMED. Guess I'll have to buy some Glassers to avoid rapid decompression in the unlikely event my first shot missed.
    Quod principi placuit legis habet vigorem.Semper Fidelis
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  • BlueTicBlueTic Member Posts: 4,072
    edited November -1
    My Brother and his wife and kids are in New Jersey and both he and his wife work in New York on ocassion. I finaly got through to him around 3:00pm west coast time, and they are fine.My Mother lives in Texas but works out of Boston about every other week, and travels to LA frequently from there. Thank God she was home this week.I would fly but it would be very hard not to go armed at this point.
    IF YOU DON'T LIKE MY RIGHTS - GET OUT OF MY COUNTRY
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  • gruntledgruntled Member Posts: 8,218 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Can't blame airport security for this. The type of weapons they used would have been passed even if they had been found.The first step that has to be taken is that the flight crews have to be under strict orders that they do not surrender access to the flight deck no matter what the circumstances. Even if hijackers start killing crew, passengers even babies the door stays locked. Even if they set the plane on fire. Second thing is we may need to even further restrict carry on luggage.(I would hate that, I like to fly light & just carry on what I neeed.) Third thing would be to restrict access to the passenger terminalarea to ticketed passengers (and those needed to assist them) only. This would reduce the number of people that need to be checked through security. [This message has been edited by gruntled (edited 09-12-2001).]
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  • IconoclastIconoclast Member Posts: 10,515 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Gruntled -The FAA has already instituted at least two of your ideas. I have no desire to spend 10+ years in stir for trying to carry a weapon on board. I really hate the idea of leaving my pocketknife at home, but we have to do that at the entrance to every Federal office bldg now. But you bet I will be armed. With any number of innocent every day objects that can, if necessary, be turned into deadly weapons. Certainly not my first choices nor particularly effective ones, but enough to do some good.
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  • Bubba JoelBubba Joel Member Posts: 5,161
    edited November -1
    I have a daughter and mother-in-law on vacation in Hawaii, and can't get home...It's getting close to firing up the old wire service, to send her some money, to live on...She's not worried about flying, cause she's a pilot and young and bullet proof....if you know what I mean...LOL
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  • alledanalledan Member Posts: 19,541
    edited November -1
    No tall buildings!No airplanes!No ragheads!
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  • adminadmin Member, Administrator Posts: 1,079 admin
    edited November -1
    SaxonPig: It was FDR. I really must stop smoking crack while I compose...
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  • steve45steve45 Member Posts: 2,940 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    YES, but if a swarthy lookin fellow jumps up for any reason, he'll have 215 lbs of me on him.
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  • 218Beekeep218Beekeep Member Posts: 3,033
    edited November -1
    I hope my customer will get on one soon,he was suposed to get on one yesterday morning in New York,and meet me down here in FLA last night with a check.
    Will the last reb to leave flarda,please bring the flag?
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  • anderskandersk Member Posts: 3,627 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Yup, I'll be flying. I don't fly a lot, but when I can afford it, I always enjoy it.In fact, even though I'm a mild mannered guy, I think I'd even enjoy a fight with somebody trying to hijact the thing.Bonne Chasse!
    Ken
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  • anderskandersk Member Posts: 3,627 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    make that ... hijack the plane.Also, I think they'd better tighten up the airport checks.Man, I have sure enjoyed some great conversations with pilots in the cockpit ... bummer to have to stop that. But I guess that is the world we live in.I agree, too, that we cannot live controlled by fear. I prefer living with the knowledge that God loves me and that He is in control.
    Ken
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  • Christian B.Christian B. Member Posts: 218 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I'll fly again. The events the other day were an extreme exception rather than the rule. I expect a huge pain in the * as a result of someone else's actions, but flying is still the safest/fastest means of travel.christian
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