You Are Now Free to Move About the Country

I really enjoy posting thing that I find amusing, and I hope that you all get a good laugh as well. The problem is that I haven’t been very inspired the past few weeks to post anything. Caci would say that she’s proud of me for actually getting some work done, but I know that the rest of you would rather that I continued to slack off at work so that I could put some new items of interest out on my site. Amazingly, today the tide has turned.

I’m still not slacking off at work, but I did just run across this news article (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16673691/) about a nine year old boy that managed to fly from Seattle to Phoenix and then to San Antonio before he was stopped. Even more amazing is that he never bought a ticket. So we know a couple of things right off:

1. He’s not a student from Caci’s class trying to get back home; way too smart.
2. The airport officials he came into contact with may have been student’s from Caci’s class before she started teaching; they missed the benefits of taking things to the next level (words and sentences in reading).
3. Southwest Airlines is serious when they say, “You are now free to move about the country,” in their ads.

I’ve already posted on here before that the whole security process at the airport is a sham anyway that basically helps the airline provide jobs and allows them to politely force you to do things a certain way. It’s obviously not designed for security otherwise it wouldn’t be so easy to bypass. I never imagined, though, that it was so easy that a nine year old could do it, and that really brings up a couple of key questions: Is this nine year old just really smart? Or is it really that easy?

Either way, you’ve got to assume that someone who can build a bomb out of the leftover gum stuck to the bottom of your shoe and detonate it with a cell phone is smarter than this nine year old. And you know what the kicker is? They said that they stopped him because he didn’t have a good story when they asked about his papers. That just implies that if he’d planned a little better he wouldn’t have been stopped at all. Do you think that you could come up with a better story than a nine year old?