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TSA Searches Plane on 'Psychic' Tip
Looks like bold new technical methods are being employed:
Posted on Sat, Mar. 27, 2004 Psychic prompts search of passenger jet in Fort Myers Associated Press FORT MYERS, Fla. - A psychic's warning that a bomb might be on a Dallas-bound passenger jet at Southwest Florida International Airport prompted federal and local officials to search it with bomb-sniffing dogs. Nothing suspicious was found on American Airlines Flight 1304, but the delay Friday caused the flight to be canceled because some crew members had exceeded their work hours when the search was finished, officials said. Doug Perkins, the local Transportation Security Administration director, said the psychic's call was "unusual." "But in these times, we can't ignore anything. We want to take the appropriate measures," he said. The crew was evacuated from the plane, but none of the 128 passengers had boarded yet, Perkins said. TSA officials wouldn't say where the call was made from or who it was made to. An American Airlines spokesman also said the call came from a psychic, but said the company was notified about it by TSA. The passengers were placed on other flights that left later Friday and Saturday. http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald...te/8292753.htm |
"But in these times, we can't ignore anything. We want to take the appropriate measures," he said. I officially would like to get off this planet now. Could we stop at the nearest semi intelligent world please. |
Lookslike ye good ole folks at TSA are "nut" one strawberry short of a fruitcake anyomore but have gone just a bit over the top.
Reminds me on Nancy and Ronnie the Raygun in the 80's running US of A with the help of shamans psychics and other witchdoctors... I wonder if being psychic would make a well paid and rewarding carreer in the SS, sorry TSA? Do they have 401K's? JJ |
Should have employed another phsycic to tell them where the bomb was, would have saved a lot of trouble.
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Doug Perkins, the local Transportation Security Administration director, said the psychic's call was "unusual." But in these times, we can't ignore anything. The fact that it plays straight into the hands of Al Qaeda or bankrupts the airlines along the way is neither here nor there. |
So what action did the TSA take against the said 'Psychic' for wasting their time?!
Great idea next time you want to make a hoax bomb threat - just tell the TSA you 'have seen a vision...' It gets worse :mad: |
At Lax recently whilst waiting in the queue with my crew, to be systematically defrocked by the TSA (COME ON HOW ABOUT A SUITABLE ACRONYM FOR THEM). I was just about to go through the metal detector when a rather obese TSA agent just walked in front of me. I called out 'excuse me', but he ignored me. So I tapped him on the shoulder and said 'Excuse me I don't mind you going ahead, but...' that's as far as I got. He turned around and said. 'Buddy you've just committed a Federal offence, so be careful.' What can you do??????:sad:
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From the Fort Myers News-Press, one of the flight crew seems to have been spooked by the psychic.
The crew of American Airlines Flight 1304 was evacuated while bomb-detecting dogs and members of the Transportation Security Administration and Port Authority Police searched for explosives, said Doug Perkins, local TSA director. ..... Paul Moss, vacationing from Minnesota, was scheduled to make the Dallas trip. He said security — some in uniform, some in plainclothes — showed up at the gate about a half-hour before departure. “Nobody would tell us what was the problem, only that they had a problem with (the steward),” Moss said as he waited for a 6 p.m. Continental flight. One flight crew member felt uncomfortable about the flight, Perkins said. |
Perhaps the 'warning' by the psychic was treated so seriously in case it was a coded warning from some nut ??!
Struggling to think of another explanation for this frankly bizarre state of affairs. Its truly a bad day for aviation when mystic bloody meg can get an aircraft grounded and searched though. :( |
Wait, wait. I'm having a preminition.
A jet inbound to Heathrow tomorrow morning will hold at Lambourne.......... |
I seem to remember suggesting the ancient Roman method of examining the entrails of a chicken as a means of divining the success or failure of a voyage as a replacement for the TSA. Clearly they are coming around to my way of thinking. Policy by PPRuNe..you can't beat it!
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I've just thrown a double six! I'm not leaving the house!
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911
I'm still waiting for a psychic to come forward and prove that they foresaw the events of 911...
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I'm getting the word........ NONCE!!!
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They are already trying to say that Nostradamus predicted 9/11.
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Too many dangerous psychics around!
After 9/11 I remember a psychic, wearing a pilot jacket, told everybody "Go to Iraq!!!".
People were so afraid they went there and found nothing. World would be better without psychic leaders! |
Grandpa, you mistake "pyschic" for "pyscho", you comical frenchman.
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It is only normal for those from the lesser nations to be jealous...
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I once went to a Psychic. Before I said a word she said, "Your An Army Helicopter Pilot." I was amazed and then realized she saw I was wearing a Big Watch......
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Hmm Airbubba... Jelaous over what?
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C'mon guys. Can't have it both ways.
Humanity has learn't to build some very fine technology based on logic and proof, but the social order of the planet, such as it is, still holds together mostly on mysticism and superstition. Many highly-regarded religions, for example, teach people to form unwavering convictions and beliefs and then to base all thought and behavior on those beliefs. If the psychic really believed he had a vision, well then, he had a vision. How are the much-maligned security folks going to toss a magic coin that mechanically sorts out a well-meaning nutso psychic from the pool of murder-minded nutso sociopaths? They can't. They just have to go thru the motions. Brings a new dimension to the concept of 'overhead'. But that psychic is na likely t'be flying much from now on. |
Thank you Frankie!
I just looked at my face in my psyche, and I was red and ashamed.
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What's really scary is that all this happened outside California ....
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So if I understand this correctly...
If I call an airline and say 'There is a bomb aboard Flt xxxx' and there isn't then that's a hoax and I'm in trouble. If I call an airline and say 'I'm a psychic and there is a bomb aboard Flt xxxx' and there isn't then that's a warning? The world has gone mad (again). |
What a farce.
Other Government agencies that have received "assistance" from Psychics, have noted similar levels of success. I was listening to a very interesting program the other night where the psychic who claimed to have solved the Polly Klass murder a few years ago was roundly denounced by her very angry father. I cannot (and would not) discredit psychics, but I wouldn't bank my fortune on their advice. I have to pass through the TSA examination again tomorrow - wonder if I'll get to catch my flight or miss it again, like the last one I took? Maybe I should call the psychic hotline before I go? :8 Brill's Content has examined ten recent Montel Williams programs that highlighted Browne's work as a psychic detective (as opposed to her ideas about "the afterlife," for example), spanning 35 cases. In 21, the details were too vague to be verified. Of the remaining 14, law-enforcement officials or family members involved in the investigations say that Browne had played no useful role. "These guys don't solve cases, and the media consistently gets it wrong," says Michael Corn, an investigative producer for "Inside Edition" who produced a story last May debunking psychic detectives. Moreover, the FBI and the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children maintain that to their knowledge, psychic detectives have never helped solve a single missing-person case. "Zero. They go on TV and I see how things go and what they claim but no, zero," says FBI agent Chris Whitcomb. "They may be remarkable in other ways, but the FBI does not use them" ("Prophet Motive," Brill's Content, November 27, 2000). |
Nostradamus prophecy
Milk, frog's blood prepared in Dalmatia. Conflict given, plague near Treglia: A great cry will sound through all Slavonia, Then a monster will be born near and within Ravenna. Obvious really isn't it!:ok: |
It is only normal for those from the lesser nations to be jealous... I hear people predicted the world was due to end a couple of times over the past few decades. Or some Alien spacecraft was goning to come along in the tail of a comet and pick up some true believers. Dropped the ball on that one! |
Wrong quatrain, Squire...
a fox will be elected without speaking one word, appearing saintly in public living on barley bread, afterwards he will suddenly become a tyrant putting his foot on the throats of the greatest men. Tell me I'm wrong. :O |
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