Don't you hate it when you're in the subway and your bomb fails to blow up properly? You're expecting a big kaboom and a headlong rush into eternity, and all you get is a little kapop and a bunch of strangers staring at you:
Ivan McCracken told Sky News: "I was in a middle carriage and the train was not far short of Warren Street station when suddenly the door between my carriage and the next one burst open and dozens of people started rushing through. Some were falling, there was mass panic.
"It was difficult to get the story from any of them what had happened but when I got to ground level there was an Italian young man comforting an Italian girl who told me he had seen what had happened.
"He said a man was carrying a rucksack and the rucksack suddenly exploded. It was a minor explosion but enough to blow open the rucksack.
"The man then made an exclamation as if something had gone wrong. At that point everyone rushed from the carriage."
Next time, don't run from the bomber, subway riders; run at him. Run at him and kick the crap out of him.
It didn't take airplane passengers any time at all to settle on this response.
Right. Every time I watch that Brinks advertisement for its security system, and the woman runs upstairs to lock herself in her room and call the cops, I'm screaming at the television -- "Get a gun and shoot the S.O.B.!"
Posted by: Salt Lick at July 21, 2005 10:27 AMExactly my response, Salt Lick and you, too, Donnah. This is one of those areas where I feel (really, I do) strange in comparison with other humans, mostly females, because my first response would be to jump on the guy and/or get the stupid backpack away from him and far away from everyone else and then kick the crap out of the guy and/or in some combination of all of that all at once. These terrorist people are really, really getting annoying, not that they haven't been already.
One of the biggest deals to me after 09/11 was as to the hijackers and why, why people hesitated as long as they did. I wrote about that online (at length, in specifics) and several airline employees appeared and went about advising everyone to not interfere, to sit and trust the airline, to be good passengers and be passive...and I just responded, yeah, well, times have changed. Look what happened because of all that passivity and "trust."
Posted by: -S- at July 21, 2005 11:18 AMHi! I found your'e sight from Fraulein Malkins blog. what form of sick depraived axe did you haave to perform to get on her blogroll, you fascist?
could you pleez email them me? thanx.
I didn't have to do a thing in the world, Larry. And my sending critical trackbacks when I think she's gone too far doesn't bother her a bit. Nice lady.
Posted by: Donnah at July 21, 2005 12:30 PMBit hard to impose Sha'ria law on the planet when you can't even build a functional pipe bomb- 12 year olds in the west can do that. Maybe we should be sending exuberant munchkins to the Middle East to demonstrate what awaits truculent turbanheads via their letter boxes, car mufflers and garden ornaments.
Posted by: PB at July 21, 2005 07:49 PMHow do you say, "Oh shit!" in Arabic?? ha ha ha - I hope, if it was a nail bomb, that all the nails went partially into his back.
I'm with -S-...after 9/11, my husband and I went to the Great Smokies on vacation. It had only been a month since 9/11 and we were in Gatlinburg, on the skyline thingy that takes you up this wire to the top of a mountain where there is ice-skating. The scenery on the way is pretty nice. Crowded into the car with us were two Arabic speaking men. I immediately went into "I'm going to take them out" mode. Being a woman, this is unusual I guess. I stared at them, trying to transmit the thoughts I had of "I'll kick your ass if you try anything....I'm not afraid of you.....I'll grab your balls and twist so no virgin will want you.", etc. My husband was trying to get me to be less obvious. I looked at the faces around me of the other passengers to see if they felt the same thing I did, and I didn't really see anything like what I felt. Weird. Anyway - we obviously made it to the top of the mountain and the two guys got off. I'd still do the same today.
I like "Hog On Ice" guy's suggestion about little packets of pig's lard carried on one's person. If I blow up, my pig's lard blows up - and gets on the bastard trying to make it to Allah's place, and Allah won't let him in because he's covered with pig's grease.
Posted by: suzeisnotfooledbyislam at July 22, 2005 07:36 AMsuzieisnotfooledbyislam....I was referring to acting AFTER a terrorist act, not on my own imagination. Just saying...
Posted by: -S- at July 23, 2005 06:38 AMDonnah, I had exactly the same reaction that you did. I just could not believe that people let four of these guys get away.
I think this must have to do with the British culture, which has literally forbidden self-defense. I remember reading a story about an old lady who was prosecuting for holding two burglars in place with a fake gun until the police got there. It's a true story.
Unbelievable.
Posted by: MaxedOutMama at July 23, 2005 06:18 PM