----[Please read http://ercoupers.com/disclaimer.htm before following any advice in this forum.]---- Greg / Percy:
I went to pick up a visitor at IAH last night and as I circled the terminal buildings together with all the other people that are not allowed to stop at the passanger pick up area I thought to myself how the terrorists would laugh their heads off if they could see us. There was plenty of space to park at the recently expanded passanger pick up area. We could stay in the car as we used to before, even keep our engines running because after all it was cold. and we could have stayed out of everyone's way for 10 to 20 minutes waiting for our passangers. But noooo... The mayor and city council decided that we would only be allowed to stop if our passanger had been standing there waiting for us, Until then we have to drive round and round the terminal trying to avoid construction workers, passangers loading and unloading bags, stray luggage carts, limousines, taxis, parking lot busses, police, drug and bomb sniffing dogs and the eager baggage handlers. All for nothing. If the idea is to prevent a car bomb or a bomb in a bag, it is useless. The hourly parking is inside the terminal three floors up. A bag could quite easily be hand carried from the passanger drop off to the baggae area, left on a conveyer where nobody would remove it if unattended, and the culprit would just walk out the passanger pick up area, right past the dogs, police etc. Who is doing the thinking? They removed sweet and low from planes because of the anthrax scare, They broke the file off my nail clipper, but then they serve me wine in a glass bottle that I could quite easily break against the sharp edges of the anatomical armrest of my coach class seat and use it as a nasty weapon... Not a day has gone by without a mention of 9/11 on the radio. Just about everything that does not work or happen gets blamed on 9/11. When are we going to drop it and quit giving terrorists all this satisfaction and more to laugh about? I have a hard time explaining to my visitor from Colombia that this is how we try to prevent terrorism. It makes him laugh too. He tells me that like the terrorism and drugs in Colombia, as long as someone is making money off it, it will continue. All these efforts to combat it are nothing but a smoke screen. AF ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?aVxiLm.aVzvvT Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
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