BOX CUTTERS, 9/11 . . .

Which led me to box cutters. You attack me with box cutters, I take my shoe off and beat the crap out of you with it, me and the rest of the passengers on the plane. I was reading a fine book, DEEP SURVIVAL, by Laurence Gonzales, a stewardess on one of the flights, he reports, she described somebody getting their throat cut. She was on one of the planes, he reports, she phoned somebody. The first successful cell phone call from a commercial plane was in 2004, by Qualcom.

Check out box cutters, it’s an up close and personal weapon. That’s the point, it’s not much of a weapon against a plane full of people. Think of scenarios where a couple of guys could pull it off. I don’t see a couple of guys with box cutters taking over a plane.

If I’m a stewardess in her situation, I can’t see that narrative, I’d be sentimental. Find yourself some box cutters, think about taking over a plane, you and some other bozo, you’ve got those box cutters, for me, it takes a willing suspension of disbelief to imagine those box cutters, and a couple of guys, taking over three planes full of people.

Then the government invades Afghanistan because of the Arabs with box cutters, who are on a list, that list contains people who are still alive in the Middle East, 20 years later.

9/11/20