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dogday Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-27-06 01:11 PM
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Student Charged With Packing Dynamite
HOUSTON -- A college student has been charged in connection with dynamite found in his luggage at Bush Intercontinental Airport Friday, KPRC Local 2 reports.

Officials said Howard Fish, 21, was charged with carrying an explosive on board an aircraft.

Authorites discovered the dynamite Friday morning when a K-9 unit detected explosive residue on a checked bag from a flight from Argentina.

Investigators said Fish told them he had bought the item as an artifact when he toured mine fields in South America.

http://www.click2houston.com/news/9742440/detail.html


Just How Stupid Is This I Ask You?
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mike_c Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-27-06 01:13 PM
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1. pretty dumb....
Off topic, but why can't journalists write "dog" instead of "K-9 unit?"
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Cronus Protagonist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-27-06 01:23 PM
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4. You don't get to smirk like George when you say "dog"?
Just a hunch.



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dsc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-27-06 04:04 PM
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13. k-9 unit would include the human officer who trains and controls
the dog.
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marmar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-27-06 01:20 PM
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2. That kid's in college?
:dunce:
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snappyturtle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-27-06 01:21 PM
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3. The student obviously is out of touch with.....
Edited on Sun Aug-27-06 01:22 PM by snappyturtle
the TSA as well as PLAIN SAFETY STANDARDS however, he could face TEN YEARS in prison!!???? I believe what the kid says so that's why I am appalled by the prison possibility.
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InkAddict Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-27-06 01:33 PM
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8. More distraction...
His fate will be determined by the amount of resources ($$$)he and his family have to resist the kid's "acting out." If I were the judge, he'd be sentenced to house arrest during the term of an on-line high-school Chemistry I class and compulsory counseling to investigate the reasons he would choose to remember his trip by purchasing a stick of dynamite as opposed to a scenic postcard of the mine.
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snappyturtle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-27-06 01:43 PM
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10. Yes! That seems more apporpriate......and
a lesson or two teaching him how to avoid such circumstances in the future!
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BrotherBuzz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-27-06 01:23 PM
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5. Stupid!
Old dynamite doesn't even need blasting caps to set it off, it's that damn unstable.
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shain from kane Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-27-06 01:28 PM
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6. Howard the Fish,
Plot Summary for
Sorcerer (1977)
Based on the French film Salaire de la peur, Le (1953), this production begins with the individual beginnings of outcasts of different backgrounds who are forced by fortune to work in a remote oil drilling operation in South America. When fire breaks out of control the outcasts are given the opportunity to earn enough money to get out by transporting two crates of unstable dynamite through miles of jungle in ancient trucks in this taut thriller. One stunt features two trucks attempting to cross a rope bridge over a raging river
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Double T Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-27-06 01:29 PM
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7. dumb and stupid..........college student?
And on a different subject , why the hell do former rethug presidents have their names on airports??
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tanyev Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-27-06 01:43 PM
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9. Oh, I know. Thank God I don't live in Houston.
It's bad enough living a few blocks away from the "President George Bush Turnpike". Fortunately, there are plenty of other ways to get where I need to go.
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lindisfarne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-27-06 03:23 PM
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11. So the idiot *DID* know he was putting dynamite in his luggage (originally
it was reported as him not knowing it was in there and that he worked in the mining industry ( Mr. Fish said he worked in the mining industry. The authorities were checking his explanation. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/26/world/europe/26london.html?_r=1&oref=slogin&pagewanted=print )

So he LIED. And could easily have killed hundreds of others. I think a 10 year sentence is appropriate.
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Matariki Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-27-06 03:30 PM
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12. wierd - this story keeps changing
first it's a stick of dynamite, then it's explosive residue, now it's dynamite again. when the story was explosive residue, the guy claimed he worked in a mine in Argentina, now it says he was touring mine fields. what gives?
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Octafish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-27-06 05:34 PM
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14. Little Willie Fish
Willie saw some dynamite

Willie saw some dynamite,
Couldn't understand it quite;
Curiosity never pays.
It rained Willie seven days.

~Anonymous

"Poppy never liked poetrys."
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