'Watch out — he's got a pen!'

[Oeditpus Rex]

Flight 396, which departed Las Vegas with 129 passengers, landed at Tulsa International Airport after one passenger "threatened another one with a ball point pen," Southwest Airlines spokeswoman Marilee McInnis said.

<snip>

Airport police took Danny Hughey Jr., 33, of North Little Rock, Ark., into custody and he faces a federal charge of assault with a dangerous weapon, the FBI said.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/B/BRF_PLANE_DIVERTED?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=US

:popcorn:

[MoseyWalker]

1. and the pen...........is

mightier than the sword.

the pen............is

get it?

whoo boy.......

[Heidi]

2. I always wonder how much of this stuff

hinges on "another one" feeling threatened?

[TheFriendlyAnarchist]

3. Don't underestimate pens; Those suckers hurt

[Dangerously Amused]

4. Oh great.

Now the NSA is gonna prohibit pens on all flights. How the hell am I supposed to do my crossword puzzles then?!? Just, like...visualize the letters there?


:eyes:

[Oeditpus Rex]

6. Do 'em in pencil

:P

[reyd reid reed]

10. I dunno...

I've got a scar on my right hand, my left arm and my left thigh from pencils.

No scars from pens.

Soon as someone figures that out, pencils will make the list, too.

Plus...what if one breaks and *gasp* you've got a jagged edge?

Or...oh NO...what if a fingernail breaks and leaves a jagged edge?








Someone'd better get a grip...

[RevCheesehead]

12. My brother stabbed me with a pencil once.

It was like that scene in Psycho. I still have the pencil "tatoo" on my chest.

[Oeditpus Rex]

14. Let's see it

"Please — we must examine you."

:evilgrin:

[RevCheesehead]

17. It's a little lower than where you're looking.

There's nothing wrong with them.

[Oeditpus Rex]

27. Torment me no longer!

I have seen the...









No. I haven't. :cry:

[RevCheesehead]

42. I'm so very sorry, sweetheart.

I fell asleep. :blush:

Do NOT take this personally!! :hug::loveya:

[Oeditpus Rex]

15. Yeah, well

My mom was KILLED by a pen!

:cry:



Happy now? :grr:

[reyd reid reed]

32. You should be thankful that it wasn't a ragged fingernail...

I mean...talk about a horrible way to go.

Only a few ways worse...

Want I should demonstrate 'em?

[Oeditpus Rex]

34. Meh

Take yer best shot.

[reyd reid reed]

35. Yeah?

Now...where'd I leave that...Oh, hell...I know it's around here somewhere...

[Dangerously Amused]

11. Bah. Pencils are for people who make mistakes.

Crayons may be an alternative, though.

[Oeditpus Rex]

13. I do 'em in pencil

I make mistakes. No sense in messin' up the puzzle because of that.









Knock, knock.

[Dangerously Amused]

20. Well,

...at least your mistakes are grammatically correct mistakes.














Who's there? :scared:


Edit: Humiliating spelling error.

[Oeditpus Rex]

24. Kinda hard to blow grammar in an X-word puzzle

since most of 'em don't have those... whayacallem?



"Sentence" things.









Chekyer.

[Dangerously Amused]

29. Oh, there's a way to blow it all right. And believe me, I'll find it.

Chekyer who?... Chubby Chekyer? Spell Chekyer? Chekyer cab?

[Oeditpus Rex]

30. I used to do x-words in the Sunday SF Examiner

that often had full-sentence solutions, or at least phrases. But those were the only puzzles like that I've worked.

I kind of miss those. They were real bastards.









Chekyer Peyem.

[MsKandice01]

36. Well, of course!!

You can't actually fill the letters in as you go. That's cheating!

[Dangerously Amused]

38. Oh man, I've been cheating all these years!

= hangs head in shame =



Hey MsKandice!


:hi:


I saw that recent pic of you and the little guy. Wow, two beautiful people. And I concur with the others that you will have young ladies lined up outside your door forevermore beginning right about the time he turns, say... twelve.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

5. Anything can be a weapon, if you use it right.

I once split my sister's lip open with a Tootsie Roll.

It'd be easy to kill someone with a pen.

[u4ic]

7. You've got talent

:rofl:

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

19. The tootsie roll thing was an accident, but four years later...

I still make fun of her for it.

[u4ic]

22. Isn't that what sisters are for?

:evilgrin:

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

25. Yep, especially if they're five years younger than you.

[u4ic]

31. I never had a sister five years younger

or any sibling for that matter - but I did have a niece 4 years younger than me.

She got it. :evilgrin:

[CanuckAmok]

23. "How many blows does it take to split your sister's lip w a Tootsie Roll?

One...

A-Two-hoo...

Three...

Three.

The world may never know."

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

26. Oh I know...

just one good throw.

[TheFriendlyAnarchist]

9. Hell, it's easy to kill someone with your thumb, especially if you got

the jump on them. Their whole thing against normal items is rather unfounded, since people can and will find ways to kill each other unless they're masked and in a straight jacket

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

18. Exactly.

If some crazy gets on a plane and wants to kill somebody, they'll do it whether or not they have toenail clippers. Obviously, guns & knives are a checked luggage sort of thing, but the list of "weapons" is absurd.

[Dangerously Amused]

39. George Carlin does a good bit on things prohibited from airplanes.

He makes the point that no matter what the weapon, everyone needs their hands to kill another, so... let only people without hands fly and the problem will be solved.



I love that guy!


:7

[Dangerously Amused]

28. Really? It is? With just a thumb?? Hmmm... = schemes = ...

But is there any way to do it and make it look like an accident?

[CaliforniaPeggy]

8. Indeed, anything can be a weapon!

A PEN?

Give me a break!

If a person is angry enough, anything can be turned into a weapon!

:eyes:

[Oeditpus Rex]

16. My whole body is a weapon

But it's not loaded. :cry:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

21. Not loaded?

Hmmm...........now that can be interpreted in any number of yummy ways.....

Sounds good to me, baby....... :9

[Whoa_Nelly]

33. Pretty soon eveyone who flies will have to fly NAKED!

...just sayin'... :popcorn:

[reyd reid reed]

37. Now That could be scary...

I mean....

:scared:

[Dangerously Amused]

40. They would have to have separate fights for Republicans.

Nekkid Republicans on a muthafuckin' plane! OH MY GOD! THE HORROR!!!

[NMMNG]

41. At the rate things are going

People will have to be shackled to be deemed safe to fly. :eyes:

[MissMillie]

43. Do other passengers on the plane get to file civil suit against these

shitheads for holding up their flights?