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Date Posted: 11:43:11 07/29/03 Tue
In reply to:
NKLS Cody
's message, "The fake Granny beats up airport security story" on 09:50:19 07/21/03 Mon
DUE RESPECT--do we really need Snopes-dot-com to tell us this is a bit over-the-top?
OTOH the story of the teddy-bear someone gave a child appears to be real. If I want to sneak something onto Commercial Air, show me where you're ...hesitant to search (just do what you do while I watch).
The 9-11 attack worked, because it came from a place we were hesitant to look. I invite your attention to The Art of War, written by Sun Tzu, circa 500BC. No translation I know of is a large book, or a daunting read; just an eye-opener. If you see how it describes the 9-11 attack, you get it. RKBA! Regards, all.
>I got the following story sent
>to me yesterday and, although the hoax is quite funny,
>I couldn't believe the number of
rel=nofollow target=_blank >href="http://www.google.com/search?q=Grandma+Beats+Up+A
>irport+Security+Guards&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&star
>t=10&sa=N&X=1">conservative web pages that reposted it
>as "the truth" because it reflected their bias
>that the current federalized airport security system
>doesn't work. And since this urban legend has been
>floating around the internet for about 14 months, it
>predates the latest changes designed to improve the
>system.
>
>First, here's the link to what the Snopes2 (story hoax
>dective) has to say about the following supposed "news
>article" and then the version sent to myself.
>
>
rel=nofollow target=_blank >href="http://www.snopes.com/humor/iftrue/granny.htm">ht
>tp://www.snopes.com/humor/iftrue/granny.htm
>nt>
>
>Grandma Beats Up Airport Security Guards
>
>by Bob Wallace
>
>Charges were dropped yesterday against Ruth "Grammy"
>Gordon, an
>83-year-old wheelchair-bound grandmother, who was
>originally charged
>with assault and battery, and assault with a deadly
>weapon, because
>of an altercation she had last week with six airport
>security
>guards, that left all 6 hospitalized.
>
>"Justice has been served," said the 95-pound Mother of
>three and
>Grandmother of six, as she sat in her wheelchair,
>aided in her
>breathing by an oxygen bottle. "Now I'm going to sue
>every fool in
>the federal government for ignorance, stupidity, and
>just plain
>general incompetence. I'm an American, and I won't be
>treated like
>this."
>
>The problem began last month as Gordon was attempting
>to board an
>airplane. "These guys are supposed to be some kind of
>professionals," she said, "but they're dumber than
>rocks. Here they
>were, letting guys who looked just like terrorists
>walk through
>without searching them, and then they pull me aside
>and tell me
>they're going to search me? I don't think so."
>
>According to one witness, Bud Cort of Cuyahoga Falls,
>Ohio, one
>guard, "who weighed about 300 pounds, looked like he
>was drunk, and
>had his shirt out, told this woman she couldn't board
>the plane
>unless they searched her. He was really rude. That's
>when the
>trouble started."
>
>Videotapes showed that Hollis ran the guard down with
>her motorized
>wheelchair, then sat on top of the screaming man while
>spinning her
>chair in circles. "Doofus was so fat he couldn't get
>up," said
>Hollis with a giggle. One guard who attempted to pull
>Gordon's
>wheelchair off of the screaming man from behind was
>hit over the
>head with an oxygen bottle and knocked unconscious. A
>third guard,
>who approached Hollis from the front, was also left
>dazed on the
>floor. Witnesses said she was cackling, "Put your
>hands on an old
>lady, will you?" as she bashed both guards. The tape
>also showed a
>fourth guard attempting to grab Gordon's wheel-chair.
>Hollis removed
>a knitting needle from her purse and stabbed him in
>his left
>buttock. "What a wimp," she told reporters. "He
>started screaming
>and grabbing his butt and running like a puppy that
>someone kicked."
>
>"It was amazing," said another witness, named Scott
>Ryan.
>
>"The whole crowd just stood there cheering and
>clapping. I mean, she
>was whupping butt."
>
>A fifth guard that attempted to grab Hollis had the
>seat of his
>pants set on fire with a cigarette lighter that had
>escaped
>detection. "He just went whoosh across the concourse,
>screaming and
>slapping at all these flames flying out of his rear,"
>said Ryan. A
>sixth guard did finally manage to get Hollis in a body
>hug. "I think
>that was the wrong thing to do," said another witness,
>who declined
>to be identified. "She just grabbed him by his greasy
>hair with one
>hand and cracked him across the jaw with her skinny
>fist. And down
>and out he went." After all this, Hollis's chair was
>still sitting
>on top of the first guard. The tapes clearly showed
>her leaning
>over and yelling, "Apologize to me, you fat sumbich,
>or when I'm
>done with you, you'll just be a greasy spot on the
>floor!"
>
>As the crowd roared, the guard cried, "I'm sorry, I'm
>sorry! Uncle!
>I won't do it again!" Finally, Hollis surrendered
>without further
>incident, and was taken to jail and released on her
>own recognizance.
>
>"We didn't have any choice," said an unidentified
>officer of the
>court. "Over 200 people showed up to support her. I
>think if we had
>demanded bail, there would have been a riot."
>
>Over 20 lawyers offered to defend her for free.
>However, realizing
>the precariousness of the case, Hollis was not charged
>with
>anything. "I doubt there's a jury in the whole country
>that would
>have found her guilty of anything," said one of the
>lawyers.
>
>"I'm flying again tomorrow," Hollis told reporters.
>"And I suggest
>no one at the airport so much as look at me wrong."
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