Boston's Logan Airport has fire drill with smoke and flames on 9/11 (today)

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Posted: 9/11/2013 10:30:31 AM EDT

What the fuck were these idiots thinking?

BOSTON (AP) -- Officials at Boston's Logan Airport are apologizing for holding a fire drill, complete with smoke and flames, on the 12th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.

The two hijacked jets that were flown into the World Trade Center towers that day had taken off from Logan.

The port authority has apologized in a statement and says it "understands that it may have offended many of those touched by the events of Sept. 11."

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http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_SEPT_11_LOGAN_FIRE_DRILL?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2013-09-11-14-25-04

Posted: 9/11/2013 10:32:16 AM EDT

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There will be "I was traumatized" lawsuits coming. (Which means Boston taxpayers will pay more to pay for it.) Dumbasses.

Posted: 9/11/2013 10:34:23 AM EDT

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Yep. Dumbasses.

Posted: 9/11/2013 10:36:09 AM EDT

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Wow, wonder who's genius idea that was?

Posted: 9/11/2013 10:37:34 AM EDT

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My wife flew out of there this morning at 8:00 AM

It was unnerving.

Posted: 9/11/2013 10:38:19 AM EDT

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Who thought that was a good idea?

Posted: 9/11/2013 10:39:17 AM EDT

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Wow, that's really dumb.

Posted: 9/11/2013 10:39:32 AM EDT

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Ok it really is hard to believe that anyone is that dumb.

Posted: 9/11/2013 10:40:27 AM EDT

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When you stop to think that more than one person had to be in on the planning .... well no, not really.....

Posted: 9/11/2013 10:40:39 AM EDT

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Never underestimate the power of stupidity.

Posted: 9/11/2013 10:40:45 AM EDT

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Not just one, either. This was group stupidity. They had a committee, and everything.

Posted: 9/11/2013 10:41:13 AM EDT

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Boston, brah.

Posted: 9/11/2013 10:42:15 AM EDT

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mASSholes

Posted: 9/11/2013 10:45:33 AM EDT

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Not just one, either. This was group stupidity. They had a committee, and everything.

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Not just one, either. This was group stupidity. They had a committee, and everything.

I suspect that there were multiple committees coordinating on a drill like this.

Posted: 9/11/2013 10:45:54 AM EDT

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Brought to you by the same brain trust that shut the entire metro area down and sent SWAT teams through neighborhoods, pointing guns at random peoples' windows, over a couple of teenage chuckleheads with pressure cooker bombs.

That's who.

Posted: 9/11/2013 10:48:14 AM EDT

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Brought to you by the same brain trust that shut the entire metro area down and sent SWAT teams through neighborhoods, pointing guns at random peoples' windows, over a couple of teenage chuckleheads with pressure cooker bombs.

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Who thought that was a good idea?

Brought to you by the same brain trust that shut the entire metro area down and sent SWAT teams through neighborhoods, pointing guns at random peoples' windows, over a couple of teenage chuckleheads with pressure cooker bombs.

That's who.

MUMBLES!

Posted: 9/11/2013 10:49:55 AM EDT

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idiots

Posted: 9/11/2013 10:50:32 AM EDT

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MUMBLES!

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Who thought that was a good idea?

Brought to you by the same brain trust that shut the entire metro area down and sent SWAT teams through neighborhoods, pointing guns at random peoples' windows, over a couple of teenage chuckleheads with pressure cooker bombs.

That's who.

MUMBLES!

Logan is actually controlled by Massport, which ... if you can believe such a thing is possible ... is an even more fucked up institution than the Boston mayor's office. I'm sure the state police and other agencies were involved in this ingeniously timed exercise.

Posted: 9/11/2013 10:51:29 AM EDT

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Logan is actually controlled by Massport, which ... if you can believe such a thing is possible ... is an even more fucked up institution than the Boston mayor's office.

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Who thought that was a good idea?

Brought to you by the same brain trust that shut the entire metro area down and sent SWAT teams through neighborhoods, pointing guns at random peoples' windows, over a couple of teenage chuckleheads with pressure cooker bombs.

That's who.

MUMBLES!

Logan is actually controlled by Massport, which ... if you can believe such a thing is possible ... is an even more fucked up institution than the Boston mayor's office.

He's my favorite comedian mayor.

Posted: 9/11/2013 10:51:38 AM EDT

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Logan is actually controlled by Massport, which ... if you can believe such a thing is possible ... is an even more fucked up institution than the Boston mayor's office. I'm sure the state police and other agencies were involved in this ingeniously timed exercise.

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Who thought that was a good idea?

Brought to you by the same brain trust that shut the entire metro area down and sent SWAT teams through neighborhoods, pointing guns at random peoples' windows, over a couple of teenage chuckleheads with pressure cooker bombs.

That's who.

MUMBLES!

Logan is actually controlled by Massport, which ... if you can believe such a thing is possible ... is an even more fucked up institution than the Boston mayor's office. I'm sure the state police and other agencies were involved in this ingeniously timed exercise.

Yes. Yes it is. Matched only by MBTA.

MBTA has always been a comedy act. Their newer fare cards are called "CharlieCards". After the song "Charlie on the MTA", about a man who was doomed to ride the train forever because he didn't have exit fare.

Did he ever return?
No he never returned
And his fate is still unlearn'd
He may ride forever
'neath the streets of Boston
He's the man who never returned.

So this? This is par for the course.

Posted: 9/11/2013 10:55:21 AM EDT

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I say fire the fuckhead who decided to do that shit today, but we know that will not happen.

Stupid should hurt but this was way beyond stupid.

Posted: 9/11/2013 10:58:30 AM EDT

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MBTA has always been a comedy act. Their newer fare cards are called "CharlieCards". After the song "Charlie on the MTA", about a man who was doomed to ride the train forever because he didn't have exit fare.

https://corporateprogram.mbta.com/WebUI/public/images/cards.jpg

Did he ever return?
No he never returned
And his fate is still unlearn'd
He may ride forever
'neath the streets of Boston
He's the man who never returned.

So this? This is par for the course.

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That's so they can make you buy a second, "Get the fawk ahhf tha train cahd!" Which won't be available until next year.

Posted: 9/11/2013 10:59:49 AM EDT

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I see the retardation has spread worse than swine flu.

The Surry County nuclear power plant tested their emergency sirens today.

http://www.wavy.com/news/local/surry-tests-alert-sirens

Posted: 9/11/2013 11:01:46 AM EDT

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People should lose their jobs over that.

Posted: 9/11/2013 11:44:05 AM EDT

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Posted: 9/11/2013 2:02:56 PM EDT

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I'm ashamed to admit I'm in agreement with Mini-Me (Tax it all Deval)....

Posted: 9/11/2013 2:07:45 PM EDT

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There had to have been a whole comittee or board that thought that was a good idea.

Posted: 9/11/2013 2:08:59 PM EDT

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And yet they are....

Posted: 9/11/2013 2:10:46 PM EDT

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Not just one, either. This was group stupidity. They had a committee, and everything.

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Ok it really is hard to believe that anyone is that dumb.

Not just one, either. This was group stupidity. They had a committee, and everything.

I would have paid to be a fly on the wall at those meetings

Posted: 9/11/2013 2:18:24 PM EDT

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What a dumb fuck decision. How, just how?

Posted: 9/11/2013 2:34:18 PM EDT

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Not just one, either. This was group stupidity. They had a committee, and everything.

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Ok it really is hard to believe that anyone is that dumb.

Not just one, either. This was group stupidity. They had a committee, and everything.

In other words the decisions were made by people too stupid to get out of being on a committee or, worse yet, WANTED to be on a committee.

Posted: 9/11/2013 2:41:11 PM EDT

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That's so they can make you buy a second, "Get the fawk ahhf tha train cahd!" Which won't be available until next year.

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MBTA has always been a comedy act. Their newer fare cards are called "CharlieCards". After the song "Charlie on the MTA", about a man who was doomed to ride the train forever because he didn't have exit fare.

https://corporateprogram.mbta.com/WebUI/public/images/cards.jpg

Did he ever return?
No he never returned
And his fate is still unlearn'd
He may ride forever
'neath the streets of Boston
He's the man who never returned.

So this? This is par for the course.

That's so they can make you buy a second, "Get the fawk ahhf tha train cahd!" Which won't be available until next year.

To be fair, DC's Metro does the same thing.