PHOTOS from BOSTON: Police inspect all luggage from flight....

[Bluebear]

...that was diverted to Boston because a 60 year old woman had a panic attack. And didn't have a screwdriver. Or Vaseline or a notebook with Al Qaeda information. Is it safe?

[TommyO]

1. I feel so much safer now

:sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm:

[Nimrod2005]

2. How stupid are these people...

[valerief]

3. How stupid can they get is a better question. n/t

[MrCoffee]

4. Thank god the news networks were ready to provide us with the facts and...

i can't even finish that line...i hate them.

[TechBear_Seattle]

5. Sooo....

If you are scared of flying, but fly anyway, you are going to cause a plane to be diverted, piss off hundreds of stranded passengers, screw up the schedules for the airline and who knows how many airports, AND get both the TSA and DHS on your ass as a potential terrorist?

Wow, I can just feel the safety

:sarcasm:

God help you if you actually get airsick. Who knows what bomb making materials you might have swallowed and are now regurgitating?

[MidwestTransplant]

6. Isn't it time we ban panic attacks on planes already.

Sheesh

[mogster]

7. Now throw that luggage around and ship it off

somewhere safe, where it will never be seen again ;-)

Why are they doing this, if it turned out to be a passenger with claustrophobia only?

[The_Casual_Observer]

8. Makes a great picture for stupid people to see.

"They are really taking these threats seriously, I sure appreciate our President"

[Bluebear]

9. "Bush kepped us safe again!"

:crazy:

[Turbineguy]

10. We have a system and a method now.

Anything that is not within rigid and narrow standards of behavior triggers an industrialised and over-reactive security response. No doubt we shall have to learn a whole new jargon filled with acronyms.

You used to have people who were uncomfortable flying. That's not allowed anymore.

The terrorists have won the day again.

[acmejack]

11. Wonderful theater

[wakeme2008]

12. Long time ago in Chicago a friend was an American agent and

Chicago had a hole they could drive a plane into. On bomb threats, they would drive the plane into the hole, unload the baggage and then drive the plane out of the hole. The agent that had "bomb" duty would then get a set of common luggage keys and had to go into the hole and check all the luggage...

This was in the 60s boy has things changed in 45 years :sarcasm:

[obreaslan]

13. America, home of the freaked...land of the well behaved.

Be scared! Act Right! ...and everthing will be just fine.

Now get up, go shopping, and buy something nice that you can't afford.

That is all. Film at 11:00.

[Bluebear]

14. 'buy something nice that you can't afford.'

Exactly.