Charleston Airport evacuated; WV woman detained with explosive liquids

I can see that, but sometimes because there's fewer people at the smaller airports, you get checked more thoroughly because they aren't holding anything up.

 

Not at that one, though. I've been in and out of Tri-State Airport many a time, and I must admit surprise that they actually caught the woman. Security at that particular port of air has never seemed very strong, in my opinion.


And by the way, the thread title is wrong -- It's not Charleston's airport where the woman was caught, it's Huntington's.

 

What are the Sierra Mist people going to do now?

 

I say we use her for target practice. On live television. Preferrably on Al-Jazeera.

 

It's not a lie since it was purely speculation at the time of the incident. Lying implies that CNN, Fox, MSNBC, et al, knew the real reason, which of course they didn't, and don't now.

But it's funny that whenever you start seeing media reports about gas prices going up or down they always turn out to be accurate, even if the reported reason for it is wrong.

 

A Pakistani woman in West Virginia? Hell, you KNEW they'd be giving her everything just short of a full cavity search.

 

Yeah, well, she looked Afghani, so she thought she would get a pass.

 

My implication was that the reports provided were based on lies. Saying that airplanes would be using less fuel is just foolish when there isn't a reduction in the number of flights.

And, yes, your last paragraph is spot on. It is very funny how the gas price adjusts despite the reasoning being shit.

 

Sounds like you've given this some thought.

 

Yeah but the reports were the day the bust took place. I don't think they were basing it on anything. I think it was a wild-ass guess. People were expecting a reduction in flights even with no reason to believe it.

 

Actually heard an explanation from an energy expert on the radio yesterday that made a lot of sense. The theory was, none of these asshole oil speculators that are driving the price up want to be the moron who pays the highest price ever for oil. So they're kind of testing the market, seeing how far they can push it, and backing off a little. When oil gets back around $65 a barrel, he figured they'd start bidding it up again to where it's at now -- just in time for the winter heating oil rush, of course.
In short, we're fucked until we figure out how to make the hamsters run on the wheel for 400 miles without tiring out.

 

Fuck it, let's start interning oil speculators.