Chicago airport police unarmed: to combat terrorists told to run and hide

[IndyDave1776]

It's not worth all that trouble.

 

[BugI02]

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[indiucky]

I sometimes will refer to someone as a "pompous ass" while standing on my veranda smoking a pipe and enjoying a snifter of brandy, usually, just before retiring to my study to watch the BBC channel.

It's a corn cob pipe, the likker's from your cousin in Kentucky's still, and your snifter is a mason jar...
And no KET 3 is not BBC....

 

[indiucky]

And I thought Mark Anthony falling on his sword was a pretty good suicide.....

NNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[video=youtube;8AzMW2Iw2hE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AzMW2Iw2hE[/video]

Oh...The other one...

 

[littletommy]

It's a corn cob pipe, the likker's from your cousin in Kentucky's still, and your snifter is a mason jar...
And no KET 3 is not BBC....

Ahhh, so that was YOU lurking in the weeds.....err......shrubbery!

 

[jamil]

Just out of curiosity, do people still actually say "pompous ass?" That's a pretty high class insult. If someone called me that, in person, I'd expect them to calmly put away their snuff box, and then slap me across the face with a glove.

Some of us still do, but we generally reserve it for special occasions, much like we don't wear a necktie regularly.

I sometimes will refer to someone as a "pompous ass" while standing on my veranda smoking a pipe and enjoying a snifter of brandy, usually, just before retiring to my study to watch the BBC channel.

Sometimes it just fits. Like the blathering limey from across the pond. Tell me that when you try to imagine a pompous ass Piers Morgan's face doesn't fit the description perfectly.

 

[Bill of Rights]

This!!!

What part of "not allowed here" did you miss? Agreeing with a religious insult and re-posting it is the same thing as saying it yourself. You're allowed to think whatever you want to think. Do NOT post religious insults on this board.

The decision in May of 2015 was to allow discussion. Insults of this nature have never been OK, not of Islam, not of Christianity, not of any religion. This is not up for discussion. When these are seen, there will be infractions and there will be either vacations or permabans.

Neither I nor any of us here can end prejudice. Those who post it, however, will be leaving this board.

That is all.

Blessings,
Bill

 

[Woobie]

Sometimes it just fits. Like the blathering limey from across the pond. Tell me that when you try to imagine a pompous ass Piers Morgan's face doesn't fit the description perfectly.

I can actually hear him saying the words in self-description.

 

[IndyDave1776]

Sometimes it just fits. Like the blathering limey from across the pond. Tell me that when you try to imagine a pompous ass Piers Morgan's face doesn't fit the description perfectly.

 

[DRob]

You mean you're not shiny any more?

Yep, not a lot shiny at my age. I just always refer to new cops as shiny. Working the districts I did early in career, the shine wore off fairly quickly. Didn't take me long to realize clothes do not make the man.

 

[rhino]

Hmmm.

Well, I can add this to the discussion:

1. I am pompous.
2. I am an ass.

I'm not sure if I am a pompous ass, though. I predict that I will receive confirmation in 3, 2, 1, . . .

 

[IndyDave1776]

Hmmm.

Well, I can add this to the discussion:

1. I am pompous.
2. I am an ass.

I'm not sure if I am a pompous ass, though. I predict that I will receive confirmation in 3, 2, 1, . . .

 

[DRob]

It is possible to be one or the other without being both. It takes practice and experience to be both. Being elected to some office can help one along, though.

 

[IndyDave1776]

It is possible to be one or the other without being both. It takes practice and experience to be both. Being elected to some office can help one along, though.

I am guessing that your adventures in life have brought you into contact with most every possible combination of character traits that can found combined on one person along with all of them occurring piecemeal.

 

[68NOVA]

I read elsewhere, from a source with unknown veracity, that they are in fact issued firearms, but upon arriving at the airport, must secure them in lock boxes, similar to police securing their firearms at a prison.

Any idea if that is true?

Not to discredit them in any way because I know a few of them who are good guys...

Their issued weapons will NEVER be brought near the airport.

 

[jamil]

It is possible to be one or the other without being both. It takes practice and experience to be both. Being elected to some office can help one along, though.

Well, for example, I'm not pompous.

 

[rhino]

Well, for example, I'm not pompous.

 

[SheepDog4Life]

Not to discredit them in any way because I know a few of them who are good guys...

Their issued weapons will NEVER be brought near the airport.

I didn't mean to discredit the officers in any way... the administrators who set (stupid) policy, on the other hand...

So, it sounds like the jist is correct, they are issued weapons, but not allowed to carry them while on their duty assignment, the airport.

 

[seagullplayer]

I agree with following the money.

Maybe this little divination keeps the airport from paying union wage and retirement...