At Houston Hobby airport a few months after 9/11, I was at the head of
the line for a short flt to Dallas, Southwest Airlines (cattle line).
The gate attendant announces, "Anyone who would like to volunteer for a
random security check will get on the plane first." Aside from the fact
that if you had to go through that process you would be about #30 on the
plane, I stupidly could not resist asking him, , "How can it be random
if you volunteer?" He said, "Well, then you just volunteered" and the
woman behind me (#2 in line) got /seriously /upset that she couldn't
volunteer to be randomly searched to be first in line. I got to do the
stupid human tricks, was about #30 on the plane.
I learned from that experience never to question empirical reality.
Then I see this in today's paper:
*Houston Chronicle, by Mike Glenn* Original Article
<http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/front/3267228>
**
A Houston-based rapper said his decision to call himself the "Arabic
Assassin" was meant to stir up a bit of controversy in the music
business. The stage persona -- along with some incendiary lyrics in one
of his songs -- also helped get Bassam Khalaf fired this month from his
job as a baggage screener at Bush Intercontinental Airport.
There is more to the story, but it just makes one wonder, or maybe not...
--R
Royce Engler wrote:
You should probably know that all those folks are now working as security
screeners at the airport since the gummint took over that function.
Royce Engler
1985 300TD Turbo 265K
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Subject: [MBZ] [Fwd: IDIOTS I]
> They walk among us!
>
> IDIOTS IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD:
> I live in a semi-rural area. We recently had a new neighbor call the
> local township administrative office to request the removal of the Deer
> Crossing sign on our road.
> The reason: "too many deer were being hit by cars" and he didn't want
> them to cross there anymore. This one was from Kingman, KS.
> ______________________________________________________
> IDIOTS IN FOOD SERVICE: My daughter went to a local Taco Bell and
> ordered a taco. She asked the person behind the counter for "minimal
> lettuce." He said he was sorry, but they only had iceberg. And he was a
> Kansas City chef!
> ______________________________________________
> IDIOT SIGHTING: I was at the airport, checking in at the gate when an
> airport employee asked, "Has anyone put anything in your baggage
> without your nowledge? To which I replied, "If it was without my
> knowledge, how would I know? He smiled knowingly and nodded, "That's
> why we ask." Happened in Birmingham, Ala.
> _______________________________________________________
> IDIOT SIGHTING: The stoplight on the corner buzzes when it's safe to
> cross the street. I was crossing with an intellectually challenged
> coworker of mine when she asked if I knew what the buzzer was for. I
> explained that it signals blind people when the light is red.
> Appalled,she responded, "What on earth are blind people doing
> driving?!" She was a probation officer in Wichita, KS
> ___________________________________________________
> IDIOT SIGHTING: At a good-bye luncheon for an old and dear coworker who
> was leaving the company due to "downsizing," our manager commented
> cheerfully, "this is fun. We should do this more often." Not a word was
> spoken. We all just looked at each other with that
> deer-in-the-headlights stare. This was a bunch at Texas Instruments.
> ________________________________________
> IDIOT SIGHTING: I work with an individual who plugged her power strip
> back into itself and for the life of her couldn't understand why her
> system would not turn on. A deputy with the Dallas County Sheriff's
> office no less.
> ____________________________________________________
> IDIOT SIGHTING: When my husband and I arrived at an automobile
> dealership to pick up our car, we were told the keys had been locked in
> it. We went to the service department and found a mechanic working
> feverishly to unlock the driver's side door. As I watched from the
> passenger side, I instinctively tried the door handle and discovered
> that it was unlocked. "Hey," I announced to the technician, "it's
> open!" To which he replied, "I know - I already got that side."
> This was at the Ford dealership in Canton, Mississippi!
>
>
>
>
>
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