Thursday, August 26, 2004
WE'RE DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMED!: Here's a cheerful story you could probably do without, but it works for my purposes tonight, which is to fill space. Bea Arthur(!) sparked what the whippets of the press call a "security scare" at Boston's Logan International Airport when she tried to board a Cape Air flight with a pocket knife in her handbag. Of course, these days, it's strictly verboten to fly with a blade, even one that could barely peel an apple.
Because she's a performer first and foremost, she started screaming that the knife wasn't hers and "the terrorists" put it there. When the knife was confiscated by a TSA agent, she took out a keyring and said they also belonged to the terrorists before throwing it at them. Reassuringly, she told Cape Air employees "We're all doomed" before boarding the plane.
A few points to help bludgeon this story to death (and to make it look much more important than it really is):
1) Keith Olbermann just mentioned what I think is an important point (although apparently Olbermann is the only one who agrees with me): the entire passenger manifest on the particular flight she was boarding was...wait for it...BEA ARTHUR.
2) Cape Air is an intrastate shuttle service. Were they afraid she was going to wig out and demand to be taken to Rhode Island instead?
Oh yeah, there is a number 3: If an 81 year old woman flying on an otherwise empty plane is what it takes to spark a "security scare", then life has become far too interesting for my liking.
(x-posted (with some modifications) from Blah Blah Blah, the only news-related forum you need...to make you lose interest in politics altogether. I promise this verison is much more interesting, though)
Because she's a performer first and foremost, she started screaming that the knife wasn't hers and "the terrorists" put it there. When the knife was confiscated by a TSA agent, she took out a keyring and said they also belonged to the terrorists before throwing it at them. Reassuringly, she told Cape Air employees "We're all doomed" before boarding the plane.
A few points to help bludgeon this story to death (and to make it look much more important than it really is):
1) Keith Olbermann just mentioned what I think is an important point (although apparently Olbermann is the only one who agrees with me): the entire passenger manifest on the particular flight she was boarding was...wait for it...BEA ARTHUR.
2) Cape Air is an intrastate shuttle service. Were they afraid she was going to wig out and demand to be taken to Rhode Island instead?
Oh yeah, there is a number 3: If an 81 year old woman flying on an otherwise empty plane is what it takes to spark a "security scare", then life has become far too interesting for my liking.
(x-posted (with some modifications) from Blah Blah Blah, the only news-related forum you need...to make you lose interest in politics altogether. I promise this verison is much more interesting, though)
|| Eric 1:17 AM#
