HAPPY NEW YEAR!!
Say goodbye to 2010. It wasn’t a horrible year, but Lord knows it wasn’t a great year, and greet baby New Year 2011. Good Luck to us all!
I have a new hero for the new year. No, it has nothing to do with a knife, but it does have something to do with those irritating people who think they don’t have to follow the same rules as everyone else.
Now I’m not talking about wearing white socks with black wingtips or sneaking a 40-minute lunch when everyone else takes 30. Those things affect you and not the people around you. Zoom ahead in the closed traffic lane and then cut into line so you don’t have to motor along at 15 mph like everyone else and you deserve the one finger social salute. Still, it’s a minor bump on the road of life.
But now, endanger a plane full of people by not complying with the lawful orders of the crew, I think you should be taken off in cuffs and prosecuted.
So when the teenage boy decided he didn’t need to turn off his iPhone on takeoff as instructed by the cabin attendant he moved into that special class. Now I’ve been told by crew members that we have to turn off electronic devices because during those dangerous moments of take-off and landing there could be interference with the communication and navigation of the plane. True or False? I don’t know, but the minor inconvenience in exchange for getting off the plane at my destination seems more than reasonable.
Should an evacuation be required after a hard landing, that hard plastic case could bounce off someone causing a head injury and making an already bad situation worse. At best, you would have only one hand if necessary to help rescue yourself, delaying others.
So when this teenage rebel without a brain decided he was special, Russell Miller acted. He “Gibbs” him.
You know, that open hand slap administered to the back of the head to tell you to wake-up and make better decisions. The iPhone was turned off.
Unfortunately, Miller was arrested when they landed in Boise, Idaho. So much for the western myth of the lone man standing up to wrong and people standing with him. They arrested the wrong fellow. The teenager should have been taken off in cuffs.
I urge Mr. Miller’s lawyers to move the case to the jurisdiction I’m in. Give me a shot at the jury pool and I’d find him not guilty and pin a medal on him.
Strong words? Maybe, but are we sheep or a nation of people who know the difference between right and wrong and support right?
KNIFE FRONT
There’s a comedian who claims humor is all around us and we just have to look for it. He's right. Look and you will find.
Last year a distributor sent me a 13-month calendar with nice advertisement photos of knives and knife brands. The last page is January 2011. It sports a nice Blackhawk auto-knife, the CQD Mark 1 type E. It’s a nice knife sporting a black AUS 8 blade in a high friction handle. It’s marketed at the military and police, but even with the auto feature, a fine knife for civilians. (None of your backtalk. - - Sometimes we’re not too civil ourselves.)
It’s lying on a suppressor (AKA silencer) and visible are the words “Front” and an arrow. Well, it makes sense; it could have female threads at both ends. But there’s more, the next line down says “Towards Enemy.” I never thought we needed to remind people which way to point the gun.
Happy New Year and stay pointed on target.
