.22's with shotshells. THAT'S GOTTA HURT, CL.

>>.22's with shotshells<< Snake shot, how appropriate! Go for the eyes... OW

Headphones make handy garrotes. And no male wants to face an angry and scared woman armed with six-inch heels. One of those to the groin or the forehead will make one forget all about those 72 virgins. Having read horror stories of the way passengers act towards cabin crew, arming them is a bad idea. Otherwise, a fat guy yelling about why he isn't allowed a window seat, his fifth cup of Jack in the Black, and how this airline sucks (yet he is a frequent flyer and wants his upgrade), would find himself with a pistol up his nose. Damn, I'm having a tough time with this. The thought of a 5'4" stewardess with a Beretta pressed against the head of a 6'3" man is kind of entertaining. And you can make damn sure that everyone will listen to the preflight safety briefing.

So! Are the Jacobsen’s demonstrating the “Chicken Little, the Sky is Falling” behavior, or is the bureaucracy demonstrating the “The Emperor has No Clothes” behavior? http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20040727-123853-7608r.htm "Almost all of the Syrian musicians who were questioned by law-enforcement officials after exhibiting suspicious behavior aboard a Northwest Airlines flight were traveling on expired visas. The 14 men in the band were questioned by several agencies that make up the Joint Terrorism Task Force after the pilot aboard Flight 327 from Detroit to Los Angeles on June 29 radioed for law-enforcement assistance. A spokesman for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) confirmed that 13 of the 14 musicians entered the country May 30 and the visas expired June 10, but the men were not detained. The 14th musician is a U.S. resident and citizen. The backup band was hired to play with Nour Mehana, widely referred to as Syria's Wayne Newton, and were flying on one-way tickets with a return trip on JetBlue. "The bottom line is there should have been an ICE agent called in to participate in the questioning, but there wasn't," spokesman Dean Boyd said. "We believe if an ICE agent were there, they could have detected the visas had expired." The Washington Times reported last week that flight crews and air marshals say terrorists are testing airline security and conducting probes, and cited several incidents including the one involving the musicians that set off alarms with security officials. Since the report, several other pilots and marshals have come forward and confirmed that groups of men are conducting what looks like dry runs for a terrorist attack. "We are being constantly surveilled and probed" by terrorists, one air marshal said. A spokesman for Homeland Security disputed reports from crews and marshals and said they had "no intelligence that terrorists are conducing test flights on airlines." "We are aware of suspicious incidents around the country and all sectors of the economy, each of these incidents are being examined," spokesman Brian Roehrkasse said. The musicians, whose in-flight antics caused alarm among the flight crew and drew the suspicion of air marshals, had P3 entertainment visas and performed at a number of different venues across the country. They departed the United States on dates between July 10 and July 15. "Everything that we and other agencies have found indicates, and we are very confident in saying, these individuals were not terrorists by any means," Mr. Boyd said. The legality of the band and travel dates has not eased the concerns of air marshals, pilots and some plane passengers, who saw their behavior. Before September 11, the hijackers were "just flight students," said one U.S. air marshal. "Everything boils down to creativity and resources. And the more creative you are, the less resources you need." None of the 19 hijackers who carried out September 11 attacks were on terrorism watch lists and all had legally entered the country on tourist or student visas. Three overstayed their one-year visas. The September 11 commission report criticized the CIA for not placing hijackers Khalid Almihdhar and Nawaf Alhazmi on the watch list prior to the attack even after the men were linked to the August 1998 bombing of two U.S. embassies in East Africa. Similar activity was reported by flight attendants on American Airlines Flight 1732 from San Juan, Puerto Rico, on Feb. 15 to New York's John F. Kennedy Airport. The six men involved worked for a cruise ship and were carrying musician's cases with instruments. "The best way to travel is in large groups, no one would give it a second look," the marshal said. However passengers and the flight crew aboard Flight 327 were closely watching the Syrian musicians. According to passengers Annie and Kevin Jacobsen, the men sat throughout the plane pretending to be strangers, then stood nearly the entire flight in congregations of two and three and consecutively fielded in and out of bathrooms at intervals. One took a McDonald's bag into the lavatory, then passed it to another Syrian. The musicians also carried cameras and cellular phones to the bathroom. When the pilot announced the landing and to fasten safety belts, seven of the men jumped up in unison and went to the bathroom. Upon returning to his seat, one man mouthed the word "no" as he ran his finger across his throat. Syria is one of seven countries designated as state sponsors of terrorism by the State Department, but Damascus has cooperated with the United States in the fight against al Qaeda, according to the State Department report for 2003, issued April 29. "They came from a country known to support terrorism and no one noticed their visas had expired?" one pilot asked. Air marshals and pilots say terrorists are ac

wow! that story is something.