Never cry wolf

[Rosbjerg]

I'm a bit ambivalent towards this whole ordeal .. on one hand I understand the decision, but on the other I feel they went to far when they killed him! of course this is also easy to say when we now know they killed an innocent man and not a terrorist!

I don't like guns, but I see they are necessary for those who enforce the law, but alternatives should always be tried before you resort to lethal force! I just wish they had been more careful ..

 

and I think most people here, although I know you are kidding, are being a little insensitive when you say "good riddance - what an idiot" .. the guy was mentally unstable, I don't think he chose to mess around with such a serious matter which resultet in his unfortunate untimely end!

[ShadowPaladin V1.0]

um on the decompression thing from a few topics back. No you wouldn't get sucked out into the sky from a window being blown open. everything that was light and not nailed down would. and your ears would start bleeding because the pressure change was too fast... this would probably also give all the passengers a serious case of the bends too. Then if they were to keep flying there wouldn't be enough o2 content in the air for the passengers to breath regularly. Thus the little yellow facemasks drop.

 

on the subject of tazer vs shoot to kill... A tazer if it missed would probably have a higher chance of accidently messing somthing up in the aircraft. I mean your sending 75,000 volts through an aluminum airframe... I don't think that's going to do much good.

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That would be ok as long is it wasnt in the cabin. The cabin is sealed as long as the door is shut which means the pilot can bring the planes altitude down.

 

Definately dont want a tazer hitting the skin of the aircraft it would be like a lightning strike.

[SteveThaiBinh]

He wasn't innocent.  Claiming to have a bomb in an airport or on an airplane is very much a crime.

He was wholly innocent, and very vulnerable, and our duty as a society was to protect him, not to kill him.

 

I don't have the details of his medical condition, nor am I a doctor or a psychologist, but had he been detained rather than shot, would any court have convicted him of a crime?

 

Though al-Qaeda do screw up from time to time, the armed 'Air Marshall' with a shoot-to-kill policy is, as I suggested, a relatively easy obstacle for the committed suicide terrorist to overcome. So we get the negative impact on public-police relations of a shoot-to-kill policy, plus a number of dead innocents in accidents, for little practical increase in security.

All I remember from getting my wisdom teeth pulled is going completely under, and then waking up at home vomiting more blood than you could imagine.  It was like a horror movie.

I'm having a wisdom tooth taken out next week. Thank you for sharing your story. :ph34r:

[Judge Hades]

My experience with my wisdom teeth pulled were not so gore, but it did leave a bad taste in my mouth for a while. ust don't eat anything cold or drink any alcohal and you should be find. Recent wisdom teeth pulled and Listerine is a bad combination.