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2004-08-13 Home Front: WoT

AIRPORT WATCH CONCEPT HELPS NAB 'BAD GUYS'

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Posted by Alaska Paul 2004-08-13 3:01:43 PM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 And the reason this worked is....anyone ?

Correct, Mr. Bueller: these were private citizens with a stake in stopping suspicious characters, rather than covering their bureaucratic butts.

Posted by Carl in N.H. 2004-08-13 4:09:20 PM|| 2004-08-13 4:09:20 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 So...where's the NBC story on how difficult it is to charter a helo in St. Louis?

*crickets chirping*

Posted by Seafarious 2004-08-13 4:21:35 PM|| 2004-08-13 4:21:35 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Hang in there, Emily. Remember, the "bad guys" just got out of jail, where they were abused and humiliated. It will take them time to ~~cook up their story~~ get their civilian legs back again. Heh heh.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2004-08-13 4:26:21 PM|| 2004-08-13 4:26:21 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 I predict that the ACLU will come out against the profiling of sucpicious characters by private citizens. Soon Nancy Pelosi will proffer legislation to establish people with beady eyes and also people with unibrows as protected classes.

Posted by Super Hose 2004-08-13 4:50:11 PM|| 2004-08-13 4:50:11 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Man, too bad Allen Barklage isn't around.

For a couple of decades Barklage flew a traffic copter for several St. Louis radio stations. He also ran a charter service, and was once hijacked:

On May 24, 1978, Barbara Oswald hired a helicopter from a St. Louis helicopter charter service. She said she wanted to fly over some real estate that she was considering purchasing near Cape Girardeau. Once in the air, Oswald hijacked the chopper at gunpoint and forced pilot Allen Barklage to fly to the Marion [Illinois] prison, ordering him to land in the prison to free [Garrett Brock] Trapnell [airline hijacker] and three other inmates.

However, Barklage struggled with Oswald, took her gun, and shot her to death when she reached into her purse for another gun.

Barklage died in 1998, when he crashed his home-built helicopter.

Posted by Angie Schultz 2004-08-13 8:08:27 PM|| [http://darkblogules.blogspot.com] 2004-08-13 8:08:27 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Angie, it would have been more gentlemanly to have waited to struggle with her once they were 50 of so feet above the prison. The he could have booted her ass out the door when she went for the 2nd gun, landing her in a place where her broken bones could have been treated at the prison infirmary. Shooting her was OK, though.

Posted by Super Hose 2004-08-14 12:31:56 AM|| 2004-08-14 12:31:56 AM|| Front Page Top

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