The Real Bev wrote:
> Gordon Burditt wrote:
>
> > I'd like to see a new airplane horror movie about hijacking an
> > airplane using an electric razor, a plastic knife, and a hijacker
> > threatening to slit the throat of a flight attendant using an airline
> > ticket ("paper cut! paper cut!"). If we're talking about 1 1/2"
> > pocket knives, they are not likely to inflict anywhere near the
> > damage a hijacker could do with his teeth. Or his fists. Or he
> > could do a lot of damage beating someone over the head with a nearby
> > small child.
>
> I think you could slit a throat with one of those tiny Swiss Army knives.
> Those things are really sharp and the carotids aren't buried all that deep.
> Have you ever tried beating someone over the head with a child? Doesn't work
> worth shit.
>
> The Archie Bunker solution seems not all that unreasonable -- just give a
> loaded gun to everyone on the plane.
Compulsory pork meals is far simpler.
Graham
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