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Canadian Border Guards Flee After 'Dangerous' Traveler Warning

Four Canadian border crossings were shut down Sunday as about 60 of Canada's unarmed border guards walked off the job after they were warned that a person classified as "armed and dangerous" may be headed into Canada.

Faith St. John, an official with the Canada Border Services Agency, told
CTV that management staff has been called in to deal with the huge backlog of
cars and trucks waiting to cross into Canada. "As more managers arrive, more
lanes will be opened," she said.

I like how the business guys smile at us, and then sit down and read their
Wall St. Journals, and don't stand around the station trying to argue the
late plane in early.

A jet carrying 180 British tourists was grounded when its pilot announced: "Do not fly with this plane, it is not safe."

The holidaymakers were about to take off back to Bristol Airport from Antalya, Turkey, when a strange sound came from the Airbus A321's engines.

Then the captain announced: "I am resigning from my job. Do not fly with this plane. It is not safe. Do not fly with Onur Air."

The unnamed pilot walked off the aircraft, leaving the passengers in 38C heat without air conditioning.

Gus Fuentes was in the correct row but wrong seat of a plane that had not yet left London, England, for Toronto on March 15 when he got in an argument with Air Canada staff who had asked him to move.

In an interview last night, Fuentes, a 26-year-old financial services representative in Toronto, said: "I'm not going to pay a cent. I don't care if they take this to a collection agency."

It noted that two other passengers gave Air Canada written statements that Fuentes was verbally abusive and swore at the staff, who responded professionally and calmly.

Oh, and it's *aluminum* with an LED. Be still my beating heart!

Minneapolis-St. Paul is concerned that its taxi service is deteriorating. Citing their religious beliefs, some Muslim taxi drivers from Somalia are refusing to transport customers carrying or suspected of carrying alcohol. It started with one driver a few years ago, but the average number of fare refusals has grown to about three a day, says airport spokesman Patrick Hogan. "Travelers often feel surprised and insulted," he says. "Sometimes, several drivers in a row refuse carriage."

The airport is expected to propose today that drivers who wish to avoid alcohol-toting passengers change the light on their car roofs, possibly to a different color.

Eighty minutes talk time, tri-band GSM, and has a speaker/microphone (where?) just in case your bluetooth headset goes missing when your watch rings.

When your watch rings - let that one roll around in your head for a while.

The M300 also comes with SMS capability. At first I thought - wow, that would be hard to read. Then I thought - WOW that would be hard to type.

Price is in the $300 range, but if your company pays for cellphones, what the heck?

Hit the road, guns blazing: wheeled suitcase with all-over embroidered
guns.

Yep, just what I want to wheel by the TSA in Dulles. Only $99 plus shipping and it comes with a free get-out-of-Mensa card!

Only problems are it's in the UK so the customs guys will have a laugh at you. And it costs like $2K in real money. And it doesn't come with shoes - where do you buy Storm Trooper trainers?

Anyway, speaking of helicopters, here is one that is even cooler - it has night flying lights! Only $30 bucks from the Radio Shack - I am heading out to the shack in fifteen minutes (when they open) to buy one before my wife finds out.

Ok, so, if it weren't for girls, I'd probably live in an apartment that looks like that. But I'd look like Jabba instead of a D&D master.

Neither expensible unless you sign your reports "Yoda."

Having just been subjected to the tender mercies of the TSA at a couple of airports, allow me to make a modest suggestion.

If we catch a terrorist before he manages to board a plane, his punishment should be to be strapped upright to an X-shaped frame which forces his legs apart. Then, every time an airline passenger is subjected to a “close” search (ie. near-strip search), an electronic pulse is sent from the airport to the prison, and thence to a machine which delivers a precise blow to the terrorist’s genitals.

Cruel?—Yes.

Unusual?—I prefer to call it “inventive”.

Fitting?—Absolutely.

We could test the system on would-be Shoe Bomber Richard Reid, triggered each time somone has to take off his shoes at an airport checkpoint.

He wouldn't mind if you laughed. Wistfully.

So we're waiting for a flight in the United lounge at LAX, the flight next to ours was heading to London and in the middle of final boarding, when suddenly this guy comes running the wrong way up the jetway, pushing other boarding passengers out of the way, he quickly drops his laptop on the floor and the thing immediately flares up like a giant firework for about 15 seconds, then catches fire. About a hundred other people in the lounge jumped up and began a mix of gawking and general panic, I clearly heard a few fleeing individuals saying something about terrorists. The fire burned for a minute while everybody just stared at it, then another flare up, this one much larger than the first, drove a larger group of gawkers away. Eventually, the high intensity flaring calmed down and a larger fire kicked in, all the while letting off a thick cloud of white smoke that was slowly filling the terminal. Finally, an employee came over with a fire extinguisher and put it out of its misery.

I spoke to the laptop owner (while getting close for some pictures!) and he said he his laptop was an IBM, that he had checked the battery against the recalls on the net and his battery wasn't a recall. I don't remember seeing any IBM laptops nuke themselves yet on Gizmodo, just MacBooks and Dells with Sony batteries, but it was a close call nonetheless. If that thing had fired off while that plane was in the air, who knows what would have happened.

Also, we got to overhear some of the not-so-computer-literate people on our flight talking about how laptop batteries can explode if you "get too many viruses on your computer.

Because if you're foolish enough to try *and* you manage to get through security, then certainly you're silly enough to show your seatmate that it is also -

Which means that the other passengers will have to beat you. That is all.

Oh, and it's $10 bucks if you happen to be in Korea. South that is. And it is so not expensible.

I'm waiting for all these cool HTC developed GSM phones we keep reading about to hit Cingular. Yes, they are terrible, but they're the terrible phone company I'm used to.

Uhm...I know that this may come as a surprise to you but making an ass of yourself and delaying your fellow passengers does not make you a freedom fighter.

There are effective protest methods out there. For one you can write your congressman or the airlines. This method has changed TSA policy in the past. The pat down procedure was modified because of public pressure primarily from female passengers. Despite recent changes, the TSA as an organization has responded to the shoe screening concerns.

Believe it or not we do have an established practice for addressing government policies you disagree with. It's called an election. If this matters enough to you, find a candidate who opposes TSA policies and support him. If you truly believe in your ideas, you should let them stand the test of an election.

You could refuse to fly. And you could send a letter to the airlines telling them that you won't fly.

Or better yet, you could buy a ticket and refuse to cooperate with TSA at the checkpoint. Make a statement saying that you won't comply and attempt to
bypass the screening process. When you are arrested, challenge the constitutionality of the law in court. You may not win. But you have a moral obligation to fight unjust laws. Think of it. You would be like Ghandi or Martin Luther King spending time in jail opposing an unjust law. Please do this!

I believe in the TSA. I don't believe in everything the TSA has done.

But I believe in the TSA enough to make a career out of it. If you oppose the TSA's policies you should stand behind your beliefs enough to do something besides make an ass of yourself. Truly stand up for your beliefs.

The other day, someone compared me to a NAZI stormtrooper for not allowing him to carry his Old Spice through the checkpoint. I had so many thoughts. First of all, if I was really comparable to a NAZI guard then I don't think he would be able to insult me with impunity. I smiled and offered him a complaint form. I don't think the NAZIs had a complaint forms.

Secondly, don't you think that if you really believe that the TSA was comparable to an organization that committed genocide that you have some obligation to do something besides delaying flights. I am forced to conclude that you don't really believe what you say, or that you aren't really willing to stand up for your beliefs. Either way we end with the way this post started.

You are just making an ass of yourself.

What I like about this is that it looks right for your windows mobile PDA.

We give it three boots!

It's not that a lot of people catch the flu from sneezy fellow passengers, although that's possible. Instead, Mr. Brownstein says, travelers who may start a trip before flu's symptoms kick in infect the people they're visiting -- or they catch the virus in one city and carry it back home.

Since you were interested in that other i-Mate, I thought you would like to see the i-Mate JAG phone I bought in Hong Kong this week. Dropped my Nokia into the loo after one too many lagers with Black chasers. Apparently I picked it out, put it in my pocket, and took it back to the hotel. It took me a whiale to figure out why the closet at the Hilton smelled like behind the fence at the local. The staff assures me that the cleaner can get my suit clean. Anyway, this was around 250 quid.

My wallet of several years fell to pieces in my hand on a trip to Manhattan this week. I was paying the new higher entrance fee to Moma. I loved it as usual, and found this very cool METAL wallet in the store, and only $95, which is not bad for NYC.

Think this will drive the TSA screeners nuts?

The sound is dramatically improved, setup is more straightforward. The only downside is that the new phones are not charger backward compatible with the older TRU phones. Which seems strange to me, but not everyone is as smart as Toshiba (10+ years with the same charger form factor!) or Nokia.

I used to spend a lot of time in the church of holy hydration as you called it. I found myself bringing a few litres of water on cross country flights, and then drinking more at the hotel -- all the time thinking I was being healthy. Then I had a yearly checkup that I hadn't had in a few years and found out that I was a diabetic.

No price yet. Don't care, must have it!

Passengers on a flight from France to Mauritius have filed suit against Air
France after musician Bonnie Tyler performed a song at the request of the
co-pilot.

1. Southwest will never fly in Belgium.
2. If you order a waffle in Brussles do you get a Belgian Waffle?

But the tragedy is:

"I was asleep in First Class. The stewardess came and said the co-pilot was
retiring. And they asked me would I sing to him."

Man, that would have ticked me off.

Plus, I remember her as a total hottie. In that 80's kind of way. Shut up, that was the style back then.

But now she's someone's grandmother holding in her stomach in a leather pantsuit. Kinda a bummer.

When I get off a flight longer than a few hours I have horrible gas. Is it just me? It drives my wife crazy.

See, part of the problem is this new church so many worship at: The Church of Holy Hydration. Honsest to goodness, you can really go for *hours* without water. Even if you're hot. Even if you're uncomfortable. It's not like you're doing hard physical labor - the seats are just uncomfortable.

Amazingly enough, this includes children, pregnant women, old people, and the hung over.

If you look at pictures of people in a crowd 20 years ago you'll notice something (they're very likely dirty commie hippies who grew up into journos, but beyond that) - there are no water bottles clutched in their hands!

If you look at pictures of people 40 years ago you'll notice something: they're wearing suits and hats and there are no water bottles in sight either.

"It's ludicrous," a visibly irritated Charles Gresham said as he and his family prepared to enter the regular security line at Dallas/Fort Worth airport's new international terminal.

The Greshams' line wasn't particularly long. But watching elite members of American Airlines' AAdvantage program move briskly through their own line to effectively jump ahead was a bitter pill to swallow.

"I can see the people who pay for first-class tickets getting better seats," said Gresham, who was headed to Germany on an unexpected and temporary military deployment. "But this is security. We should all be even here."