
Overreaction to a Nut With a Bag of Wires Jams Up LaGuardia
August 1st, 2009 admin
Topics: actual, authorities, authority, hysterical-over, jersey-police, police, police-presence, spectacle
I don’t know how secure we should feel whenever we watch the spectacle of the TSA and the local airport cops getting hysterical over a common lunatic, as appears to be the case at LaGuardia today when some nut (drunk and “spaced out” as a vigilant clinician/ticket agent said) showed up with a bag of wires. Immediate hysteria ensued by the TSA and the Port Authority police (not to be confused with the actual New York City Police Department, which knows how to handle crazy incidents without in the process making them far worse). Here’s the New York Daily News report
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