To be fair, after the attacks on 9/11 I heard a fair number of comments from people who were convinced their local high school football stadium would be a prime target for international terror rings.
“Think about it, Becky. It’s Friday night and the whole town of Left Nube, Indiana will be packed in there. We’re sitting ducks.”
It’s silly, but people project their fear locally.
At least the city I lived in was close enough to “primary nuclear strike” targets to be demolished by shockwave.
Never mind the fact that that’s nuclear strike targets, not “Terrorist-hijacked-jets” target. Clearly people tend not to think rationally about these things.
We live a few stone throws away from the biggest military base in this part of the country. I usually joke that we’ll either be the first or the last to go if there’s a war.
However, terrorists attacking that would be “putting your dick in a fire ants nest” level of stupid.
I think it would make more sense to attack there.
The goal of an attack is not to do a standoff with the military and win. It is tocause a lot of damage quickly, to negate the feeling of security. Attacking next to the largest military base would be perfect for that, as it creates the appearance, that the military is unable to protect the people.
But the fact is that noone can really protect against this.
Some heavy truck driving through a crowd was often more efficient than gunmen throwing grenades.
Unless specifically searching for it, any semitruck will pass most police unnoticed and could be loaded with a couple tons of explosive fertilizer, enough to destroy a large buildung, killing hundreds of people.
And the attackers either include their death as a planned result, or they run quickly after an attack, making it impossible to respond immediately.
My dad pointed out to me as a kid that the city next to us would be a nuke target because it held the US strategic reserve of silicon carbide, a substance critical to grinding parts (e.g. making weapons).
Are you between the two nuclear labs in the Bay area? Those always show up as top targets and people always brought it up
The Midwest is full of missile silos that are on MAD target lists. There’s possibly more legitimate fear that terrorists could target something in San Francisco or similarly popular places. Terrorists also want attention, so a place with lots of news coverage is better too.
Well, I HOPE most people think rationally, but the ones who are going to whine about the local sports match? … Yeah, agreed.
After 911 a woman in my city (Portland Oregon) called the police because she saw powder on the hood of her parked car - parked under trees that were shedding pollen. She though fer sher that evildoers were targeting her with anthrax spores or something. The police are required to respond to those calls with full bio-emergency gear, so it was a huge scene, road blocked off, police vans everywhere, people in full body protective gear taking samples of the “anthrax” from her car. The end result was a public announcement from the police asking the public to please use common sense before calling. The drama going on in people’s heads sometimes … yikes.
People need to remember that chances are they are far too unimportant to use expensive stuff like anthrax on them. And if they are important enough for it, then they would already know and take precautions.
Unless you randomly pick up what appears to be a bottle of perfume and it’s full of Novichok nerve agent.
Sounds like a fun Friday night
Dude, you don’t have to make up Left Nube, Indiana when the state has Floyd’s Knobs and French Lick.
You mean they project their insecurities.
Wolverines!
Left Nube… That’s a city Colin Mochrie made up, isn’t it?
It is. And it has permanently entered our household lexicon.
Whoever thought it was funny to parasail over the village, it was in extremely poor taste. Take your twisted hatred somewhere else
Hate of what? Gravity?
This woman should make herself available to studies of the mind.
“We investigated thoroughly and came away with no findings”
“The lab results from the brain dissection were inconclusive, but the available data has lead us to formulate a new hypothesis. This sort of anomalously delusional thinking pattern may have been effected by excessive exposure to news and social media, but further research would be required.”
She is from rural Britain. What do you expect to find?
She’s rocking the abnormal brain from Frankenstein
Hamas allegedly used paragliders to attack Israel, but the reporting about it is weird.
Hamas allegedly used paragliders to attack Israel
So what? We are meant to assume every recreational paraglider in the world is now part of Hamas?
Russia used trains to transport soldiers, do we report that some crazy lady thinks the local UK train is part of a Russian invasion?
Sorry, was just trying to give context.
It’s a good thing assault rifles are illegal in Britain
Very much so. They should be illegal everywhere as idiots like this are all over the globe!
You jest. But I’ve had an 8” flying saucer shot out by an idiot when I was doing some park flying. (The saucer body was a 3d printed replica of the OG Day The Earth Stood Still film,)
- it was 8” on diameter. 2) it was in a park loaded with kids
Fortunately it was bird shot and no one was harmed. But still.
Tbf, if it had been Klaatu, those kids would have been in peril!
It’s Gort ya gotta worry about, Klatu was just holding a telescope…
Don’t go to East Anglia believing that.
Tell me more
Farmers in East Anglia are authorized to be armed. Guns are quite available in the UK outside of the cities and the gun law allows for them.
True, farmers tend to keep a shotgun around in rural areas, but I think you’d be hard pressed to find a farmer with an AR-15.
The farmer who lived next to me had an SA80 A2, so yes, they have them and they are legal. They just have to get police permission first.
Sometimes they even have sea mines.
Been deactivated, probably
Interesting, I didnt think civilians would be allowed to own them. I’m guessing it was a single shot .22 firing cadet version?
As far as I understand, rifles are restricted to smaller calibers and automatic fire is outright banned.
East Anglia farmers are crazy.
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Everyone’s packin’ round 'ere
how does this get covered?
there’s a fella that lives in an alley near me that is always saying weird things, can we get a reporter over here and publish a story?
It’s ragebait.
If you call the Daily Mirror they probably will.
I just like the idea that Hamas got all the way through a plan to invade britain that required them to train for aerial operations, arrange for a plane, convincingly penetrate british airspace from another EU country and yet they couldn’t figure out how to buy paragliders that weren’t hot pink.
A leisure paragliding club would be a perfect infiltration tactic/cover!
Main Character Syndrome
Ah yes, the highly respected Daily Mirror. I am 100% convinced this is a real thing that happened.
they write about a tweet, but don’t link it 🤔
I bet she complains about her kids being chronically online never noticing that she’s chronically watching the shittiest con news
Probably watches GB News
Yeah I didn’t really know what the equivalent of Fox News was on that side of the pond.
SLAMS!
Genius that one
long range paragliders
Sounds like planes with missing steps
Actually, a lot of planes are missing steps, they have to drive some up to them at the airport (🥁)
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9/11 hysteria all over again
lol found the Brexit voter
Enemy gliders!
If you’re old enough to remember this, don’t forget to take your ibuprofen. 😉
I smell a plot for Four Lions 2.0!
