Charlie Sheen: Actor, Woo.

Snopes calls it "true."[/QUOTE]

I first read about it in the book The Cell, but I think those authors used the same sources Snopes.com did.

I wasn't about to have my first post be shown up to be BS, after all! :D
 
CptColumbo said:
I first read about it in the book The Cell, but I think those authors used the same sources Snopes.com did.

I wasn't about to have my first post be shown up to be BS, after all! :D
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Welcome.[/QUOTE]

Gracias, shokran, merci, domu and danke!
 
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They should call Paris "Wowbagger the Infinitely Promiscuous"... she's bound to get round to everyone eventually.
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Al Qaeda certainly did trial runs for the 9/11 hi-jacking. The 9/11 Commission (p158-9 in their final report) notes that, on a trial run, one of the operatives had a box cutter in their toiletaries bag. This was found when they were searched at security, but the person doing the search just looked at the cutter, handed it back to the operative, and let them take it on the flight :eek: With that level of incompetance, who needs conspiracies....
 
jon said:
Al Qaeda certainly did trial runs for the 9/11 hi-jacking. The 9/11 Commission (p158-9 in their final report) notes that, on a trial run, one of the operatives had a box cutter in their toiletaries bag. This was found when they were searched at security, but the person doing the search just looked at the cutter, handed it back to the operative, and let them take it on the flight :eek: With that level of incompetance, who needs conspiracies....
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Small knives (including box cutters) were allowed on planes prior to 9/11. There was no incompetence by airline security in this case.
 
yeah, knives with blades under 4" were allowed on planes under pre-9/11 regulations. However, as James May of the ATA noted after 9/11, "Under a non-regulatory Checkpoint Operations Guide, developed by the FAA, the Regional Airline Association and the ATA, with FAA approval interpreting the FAA regulations, box cutting devices were considered a restricted item posing a potential danger. This meant that if such a device was identified, it could be kept off the aircraft." (http://www.9-11commission.gov/hearings/hearing2/witness_may.htm) One would therefore have hoped that the security staff would have seen a box cutter as a security risk and kept it off a plane - this isn't a normal thing to carry in one's toiletaries bag. However, I'd agree that the problems were more in the confusion that could be caused by the different sets of regulations, and in inadequate regulations (a 4" blade is fairly big...), than in individual incompetance.
 
A flagging actor who needs all the publicity he can get supports a controversial claim, gee....I wonder if he had an ulterior motive :shocked:
 
jon said:
Al Qaeda certainly did trial runs for the 9/11 hi-jacking. The 9/11 Commission (p158-9 in their final report) notes that, on a trial run, one of the operatives had a box cutter in their toiletaries bag. This was found when they were searched at security, but the person doing the search just looked at the cutter, handed it back to the operative, and let them take it on the flight :eek: With that level of incompetance, who needs conspiracies....
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On the subject of the box cutters, a few years ago I was helping apprehend a pair of shoplifters outside of a store I was working at. One was apprehended quickly, the other pulled a box cutter (smaller than the ones reported to have been used by the hijackers) and brandished it infront of us. He was able to fend off 5 large men for several seconds, and ultimately cut one of us quite severly. We were in a wide open place, the hijackings were in a confined space. Reportedly they also threatened that they had a bomb (one hijacker accidently broadcast it, thinking he had hit the intercom (I believe it was 93)).

BTW some of the other sites are claiming that Ed Asner is also on their side. I guess an actor who plays a journalist is almost as good as an actual journalist.
 
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