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Mar 5, 2003, 2:47 pm

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That explains why air travel was disrupted worldwide for several weeks.

Mar 6, 2003, 6:31 am

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krjones
Maybe it's just me,but jokes about ANYONE that gets killed by a bomb aren't all that funny.Just MHO.
Understand your point though.

Mar 6, 2003, 7:01 am

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It's only 5 AM here on the Left Coast and the rare sound of laughter at that hour could be heard in my home office after reading krjone's anecdote. Then I read jabez's mild rebuke and thought, Hey, maybe this shouldn't be funny! Read the anecdote again and laughed even louder. Maybe I should go back to bed....

Mar 6, 2003, 7:45 am

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Quote:

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by yashan:
So while he was chasing you down, who was checking all the other cars?</font>

Interesting question! I seemed to be the only person around at that hour, which was 5 a.m. or so. It was still pitch-black out (in May!), and I really never saw him standing there -- if he was even there, which is another good question. There was nothing but a lone stop sign on a pole, so I stopped briefly then drove on.

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Mar 6, 2003, 11:06 am

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Having been through ATL on 2/25 and again on 3/5, I found the searches to be a non-issue. No long waits at all. In fact, having allowed 2 hours before my flight, I ended up with an hour at the gate on Tuesday morning, prior to boarding.

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Mar 10, 2003, 2:36 pm

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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by JLL5100:
Having been through ATL on 2/25 and again on 3/5, I found the searches to be a non-issue. No long waits at all. In fact, having allowed 2 hours before my flight, I ended up with an hour at the gate on Tuesday morning, prior to boarding.

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I can't recall as far back as 02/28 but are you sure they were checking cars on 03/05? They weren't checking on 03/02 or 03/07. I hope you weren't just subject to an unofficial "search" by some guy pretending to be TSA.

Mar 10, 2003, 8:22 pm

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FYI....some friends and I were talking about all of this nonsense at dinner the other night, and it so happened that one of the reporters from WBS2..the local ABC affiliate, was at the next table. Her name is Lori Ghery (sp?), and she said that they canceled it as SOON as the Orange alert was lifted cause it was costing the City of Atlanta 5K per day to do the roadblocks!!!! Evidently, according to her, the roadblocks were supposed to go up at the start of the Orange alert but the city and airport claimed they needed more time to get their act together. So, that's the reason it started when it did. Let's hope this idiocy doesn't happen again!