SNL Lampoons TSA
Oct 1, 2006 | 11:00 am
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Originally Posted by RonDace
The last thing I want is to derail the thread but just as a point of reference nuclear plants are very well protected both inside and out. I worked at one a visited several between '82 and '98. From a nuclear safety standpoint I would have no problem building my house right next to one. From a terrorist standpoint almost anything else is an easier target.
Back to topic: Perhaps we should write SNL/NBC and tell them how much we enjoyed the sketch (that I have yet to see) and ask them to do one on TSA checkpoints.
Is this up on YouTube yet?
Oct 1, 2006 | 11:04 am
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Originally Posted by Gargoyle
drifting OT, sorry, but load up a piper cub with explosives and ram the nuclear plant. Just a variation on the car bomb technique which they use so effectively in the Middle East.
http://www.aopa.org/whatsnew/newsite...159_report.pdf
That's why the TSA spokesperson on SNL wanted to avoid those questions and focus on how xraying shoes can blocking 4 oz toothpaste tubes makes us safer.
Did they say "think of the children" on the SNL skit?
Did they say "think of the children" on the SNL skit?
Oct 1, 2006 | 11:04 am
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Originally Posted by breny
Think Oklahoma City and then substitute a small plane for a truck. Voila!
Back to topic: Perhaps we should write SNL/NBC and tell them how much we enjoyed the sketch (that I have yet to see) and ask them to do one on TSA checkpoints.
Is this up on YouTube yet?
Back to topic: Perhaps we should write SNL/NBC and tell them how much we enjoyed the sketch (that I have yet to see) and ask them to do one on TSA checkpoints.
Is this up on YouTube yet?
That would be a hoot! Reminiscent of the David Spade & Helen Hunt flight attendant BUH BYE skit!!
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Oct 1, 2006 | 12:52 pm
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Originally Posted by breny
Back to topic: Perhaps we should write SNL/NBC and tell them how much we enjoyed the sketch (that I have yet to see) and ask them to do one on TSA checkpoints.
"Officer, you forgot to check my underwear. You know, I want to be safe."
Oct 1, 2006 | 10:38 pm
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Originally Posted by RonDace
The last thing I want is to derail the thread but just as a point of reference nuclear plants are very well protected both inside and out. I worked at one a visited several between '82 and '98. From a nuclear safety standpoint I would have no problem building my house right next to one. From a terrorist standpoint almost anything else is an easier target.
Oct 1, 2006 | 11:53 pm
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Originally Posted by bocastephen
Don't bank on that. Also, this doesn't even begin to touch the number of nuclear reactors that are housed, pretty much totally unprotected (or protected by horny morons, as ABC News demonstrated) at various Universities all across our great land. At the very least, they make great dirty bombs to spread a layer of radioactive contaminant on their neighboring college towns, at worse, someone could cause one to totally melt down.
LNG terminal....now that is a much different story. Those things scare the heck out of me. Or an oil refinery.
Oct 1, 2006 | 11:58 pm
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Originally Posted by dgolding
....<snip>.... And forget stealing the fuel or expended fuel for use in a weapon - removing spent fuel without killing yourself takes specially equipment and a couple of weeks of time.
Oct 2, 2006 | 10:56 am
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YouTube posting
Originally Posted by LessO2
Here is the skit on YouTube.
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Oct 2, 2006 | 11:43 am
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Originally Posted by LessO2
Here is the skit on YouTube.
Oct 2, 2006 | 12:59 pm
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let's all forward to TSA/DHS
Perhaps if thousands of us forward the link to this video to the TSA and DHS and they would actually watch it, they might realize how silly and useless all ofthis is and how bizarre the US seems in the eyes of the rest of the world.