Re: Missing rings

[Brett Dikeman <brett@pdikeman.ne.mediaone.net>]

>In message <009701be8b69$d30b1b60$541bf2ce@default> "Greg Herrmann" writes:
>
> > Someone decided that the Audi emblem on the grill of my 86 CGT would be a
> > nice addition to their collection.  When I left my office yesterday I
> > discovered that the emblem was missing.  This occurred in a secure airport
> > area non the less!
>
>"Secure airport area"?
>
>There's no such thing.  I lost my immobiliser key in Zurich - on arrival
>at Heathrow I simply unpacked the toolkit and wiring diagrams and
>de-installed the immobiliser.  Not even a: "Is this your car, sir?"

Heh, there are such things...but they're not where you would expect. 
Meet a couple Massachusetts State Troopers at one of the arrival 
areas.  They got a little overzealous with "protecting" the terminal 
areas from "the bombing threat"...it used to be that one very irate 
statie would show up at your window within 30 seconds of stopping 
your car in the pickup circle, and start screaming at you to move 
your car or he/she would arrest you etc.  They would even park a 
cruiser, 24 hours a day, in the circle, lights blinking furiously, 
just to give the place that "war zone" look.  All the while, cabs are 
allowed to sit there.  God forbid one of them should have a bomb 
inside.

Massport(the organization that oversees several airports, the harbor, 
etc) received complaints from lots of very upset(and very, very 
angry) motorists and tourists...it spawned a media frenzy, and 
Massport basically ended up telling the troopers to chill out in a 
major way.

Of course, this is the same airport where some poor woman(who worked 
at the airport) was murdered and left in the trunk of her car for a 
couple months(parked -at- the airport) before someone noticed, hmm, 
her car was there but she never showed up for work, hmm, we're 
talking real geniuses here...  They still don't know who did 
it(suspicions abound that a co-worker did it, because she filed some 
sort of complaint or reported her co-workers for something, I think.)

Yep, gotta protect those terminals from all those imaginary bombs 
that imaginary certain-ethnic-groups were planting everywhere.  God 
forbid someone should murder someone else right on the airport 
property...

Brett

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