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kpete Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 05:21 PM
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U.S. Flight Diverted Due to Christmas Ornament
Source: FOX

U.S. Flight Diverted Due to Christmas Ornament

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A spokesman says a Northwest Airlines flight from Detroit was briefly diverted to Tennessee after someone found a suspicious package that turned out to be a Christmas ornament.

Delta Air Lines spokesman Carlos Santos wasn't sure who found the package midway through the flight to Orlando, Florida, or why they thought it was suspicious. He says the flight was diverted "out of an abundance of caution."

The 75 passengers and five crew members on Northwest flight 2364 were taken off the plane in Nashville around 8 a.m. Friday while dogs searched it.

They were allowed to reboard about two hours later. It was a Northwest flight from Amsterdam to Detroit that authorities say a Nigerian man tried and failed to blow up last week.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,581719,00.html?loomia_ow=t0:s0:a16:g4:r1:c0.000000:b0:z10
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Lint Head Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 05:23 PM
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1. Merry Christmas TSA! I always new it was those North Polian
terrorists we had to look out for.
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Pirate Smile Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 05:25 PM
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2. This is going to be happening more often.
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stray cat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 05:29 PM
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3. False alarms beat real ones with fatalities
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pundaint Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 05:45 PM
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5. And those are the only two options?
Just asking, but did anyone on the flight ask the passengers if they owned the package?

We don't want to be controlled by the most hysterical among us any more than by the most belligerent.
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DJ13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 05:29 PM
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4. Now the terrorists are in on the War on Christmas?!
Thats terrible!
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MichaelHarris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 05:46 PM
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6. some ornamnets are scary
Fetus ornament with a gun:

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TheEuclideanOne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 08:56 PM
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11. If you start lettings fetuses carry guns, it will cut down on abortions
just saying :)
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MichaelHarris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 11:29 PM
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14. it allows
the fetus to fight back I guess. I just don't know how effective the mini bullets are for the mini M-16.
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shadowknows69 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 05:57 PM
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7. Home of the brave.
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boppers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 07:06 PM
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9. Well done.
Terse and to the point.
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raystorm7 Donating Member (944 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 06:26 PM
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8. Booga Boooga Booga!!!!
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alp227 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 08:44 PM
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10. What's up with Detroit and airplane scares?
On Christmas, there was the bombing attempt, then the "disruptive passenger", then this!
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winyanstaz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 09:13 PM
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12. of course there are more threats and scares....
There has to be a reason not to turn lose any of the people we have been torturing.
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Suji to Seoul Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 10:40 PM
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13. A little jumpy, isn't the TSA (our own above-the-law brigade)
When will life finally go back to normal and people not live in fear anymore???
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whathappened Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-02-10 06:58 AM
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15. gov. says never
there making to much money off this scare the people gig they got going on
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