what not to do in an emergency II
Fifteen days after a massive terrorist attack on the subway (or tube, as they say) and one day after a second such attack, you are told by police to stop while entering the station. One might ordinarily heed the warning, especially in light of the public “shoot to kill” orders issued to the policy. Instead, this guy took it upon himself to jump a gate and sprint onto a subway car. Such a response to an order to stop seemed to pique the police’s suspicions as the poor sap was shot five times. I’m not saying that the man deserved to die, but he was terminally stupid. If I stand up on an airliner and get out my boxcutter to try and open the infernal bag of peanuts, I shouldn’t be surprised if some sky marshal shoots me (that the government employee would be awake enough to react should be something of a shocker).
posted by Sam @ 4:16 PM
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4 Comments:
right, he'd shoot you in an airplane. in the air. in a plane. let's think about that for a second, DaVinci.
Actually, the police didn't identify themselves as police. If some guy with a gun yelled at me to stop, when I hadn't been doing anything wrong, I'd run like hell too.
Yes P-Man, they train people to shoot on airplanes. A missed shot won't hurt the plane too much; a fuselage can pretty easily handle a 9mm hole.
I had heard that they weren't in uniform, but failure to identify themselves is news to me. The BBC, Sky and Al Jazeera make no mention of it.
actually, it probably wouldn't have mattered if they identified themselves or not because he may not have spoken english. he was brazilian, where they speak portuguese. but we all know that brazilians are terrorists, right? right? no? oh. well, i feel terrorized by things like thong underpants and excessive groinal waxing and those things are brazilian. (is groinal a word?)
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