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Old Sep 28, 2014, 10:00 am
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Originally Posted by SanFranDan
'So, I'm gonna smoke this blunt and move on, take care everyone': Message of air traffic controller minutes before he set control tower on fire cancelling 2,000 flights and causing ongoing disruption

• Brian Howard has been charged with setting a fire at an air traffic control tower in Aurora, Illinois earlier today

• Before he started the blaze he wrote a cryptic post on Facebook alluding to what he was about to do, and saying he was going to 'smoke a blunt'

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz3EcZwGrcS
Typical Daily Mail sloppyness. Was there ever a controller setting a tower on fire? I don't think so.
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