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[MaineWriter]

I should mention, they are playing "the music" on the news. "The music" is the STORM CENTER THEME...when the weather gets bad, the slap on the special logo and start playing "the music." In the old days, the newspeople all dressed in big bulky sweaters and turtlenecks. I think they realized they looked riduculous so they ditched the sweaters but we still have "the music." Oh, an reporters scattered all over the state, standing in the weather and reporting things lke, "Hi. I'm Don Carrigan in Bangor. It is snowing."

People, this is Maine. It is supposed to snow here!

L

[MaineWriter]

G'morning All.

    35*F here.  We have about an inch of snow.   Maybe more today they have threatened.

   RouxB and Clarissa, you both go huddle in the tent together, have some chicken soup and pass the whiskey bottle round.

David...I think they deserve a luxury suite at the Siesta Motel, since they are feeling sick...

L

[David]

Giving David a hand:

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Thanks Leslie!      

[David]

David...I think they deserve a luxury suite at the Siesta Motel, since they are feeling sick...

L

Good Idea Leslie.  With both Heath and Jake right?    This way if they are too knackered from being sick, they can always watch the boys shag!     he he he!

[injest]

David?

What is up with letting just anybody on a plane? I mean here we are having to strip down and go barefoot and a nine year old with NO ticket, NO boarding pass, just waltzes through and onto the plane??!!

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-01-17-airline-runaway_x.htm?csp=34


LOL!!

Dang, we have secure flights these days...

[MaineWriter]

You know, you just really have to wonder, sometimes....

L

[David]

David?

What is up with letting just anybody on a plane? I mean here we are having to strip down and go barefoot and a nine year old with NO ticket, NO boarding pass, just waltzes through and onto the plane??!!

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-01-17-airline-runaway_x.htm?csp=34


LOL!!

Dang, we have secure flights these days...

WOW!     That IS amazing!   Scary too.  That a 9 year old is smart enough to figure out how to navigate his way around the airport and airlines reservation systems.  Hell, half the adults I know wander around aimlessly in airports asking for help and directions.

I am guessing an adult or older teens coached him on how to find out how to get the boarding pass and how to figure out which planes go where.

The system failure is obviously at the SouthWest Airlines counter.   The counter agent was most likely trying to be helpful to an unaccompanied minor.   But still, some red flags should have been raised when he showed up alone and without paperwork.   They should have held him and tried contacting his parents to verify if he was supposed to be flying at all.

The TSA security checkpoint was clueless to his runaway status.   He had a boarding pass, so that gets him in.   The TSA crew would not have known that he had an ill gotten boarding pass.   Especially if he was escorted to the gate by a SouthWest ticket agent, which the story does not say if he did or not.

Of course, nobody questions the validity of a child travelling. The average person does not see them as a threat.    That is another reason why we screen all people regardless of age to the fullest.     Terrorist cells are now using children overseas as decoys or even agents.     I'm sure this kid had his bag x-rayed just like everyone else.   

Maybe this kid just saw the Leonardo DiCaprio movie "Catch me if you can".   

[Meryl]

Joy!  I woke up today in NYC to see everything dusted with snow for the first time this winter.  But it didn't stick more than a coupla hours. 

[Ellemeno]

David...I think they deserve a luxury suite at the Siesta Motel, since they are feeling sick...

L

That's a lovely thought, but I don't think I could handle the olfactory qualities of that room just now. 

[MaineWriter]

That's a lovely thought, but I don't think I could handle the olfactory qualities of that room just now. 

A room of "semen and smoke and sweat and whiskey, of old carpet and sour hay, saddle leather, shit, and cheap soap," is not going to make you feel better when you are laying on your bed of counterpane?

Sorry, I think I am mixing literary geniuses there...LOL

L