Originally Posted by bdschobel
How about if we park them in the desert and remove the engines? That's the only thing that would make some people feel safe.
We tried that in Pearl Harbor!
The "anything for security" crowd was so terrified of terrorism that they decided to park all of the military airplanes wing-to-wing with the gas tanks empty. They were terrified that the "Japs" were going to steal an airplane. Well, nobody stole any airplanes, so that worked, except when the Japanese came to attack Pearl Harbor (1) we couldn't get the planes in the air to defend ourselves and (2) we had set up easy targets for the Japanese to destroy.
Lesson: "Anything for security" paranoia doesn't work.