Tuesday, 20 August 2024

[dreadedcandiru2]

The one where it's the kids' fault Trash Bag Johnny is a dimwitted shaygets who jokes with Homeland Security.

Synopsis: We're at the border. The TSA agent wants to know if the kids belong to the Pattersons because he knows what an Amber Alert is. John makes a jokey, dismissive comment that gets the car searched.

Summary: The kids are getting blamed

Comments

[howtheduck]

[dreadedcandiru2]

Police seem to be trained to be suspicious of the overly helpful.

[jjamele]

I remember hearing of a woman being interviewed after a mass shooting telling the reporter "he was quiet, he kept to himself. He's a white guy, blond hair- he didn't look like he could be a mass shooter." Of course the "joke" is that actually, he fit the description of most American mass shooters/domestic terrorists.

[dreadedcandiru2]

There's a reason Elly's wild and irrational comment about buying eyeglasses in bulk looks familiar. It's the sort of bilge Ron Burgundy would spout. He too makes a living fixating on the remote while ignoring the immediate.

[aprilp_katje]

That is almost always the description. One of the crazy things about Ted Bundy's history is that there were young women who asked him to walk them home to keep them safe from that serial killer who was out there.

[dreadedcandiru2]

They died of profiling.

[aprilp_katje]

I think in some cases, he didn't kill them. Maybe he was in the wrong mood.....

[howtheduck]

Airport security had become much more strict because of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

I took an airplane trip to Israel with my grandparents in 1976 and I remember the security there went through your luggage in front of you and asked questions about what was in your luggage. At the time I thought it was pretty extreme compared to the US security. After 9/11, we went through security and it was the same kind of thing and I thought, "The US is catching up to Israel and for very similar reasons."

[dreadedcandiru2]

If we'd started asking those questions in the seventies, 11 September would still just be Bear Bryant's birthday.

[howtheduck]

It's like when I lived in this town in Texas where there was a really bad intersection. People would go to the town hall and beg for a stoplight. Then a mother and her two kids were killed in the intersection in a traffic accident and magically a stoplight appeared. People were angry that it took someone dying to get the change.

[dreadedcandiru2]

None of the idiots in charge reacted well to being asked why people had to die before they got off their asses, did they?

[howtheduck]

No they did not. Their response was to put in the traffic light, so there is that positive, but it would be so nice to have forward-thinking politicians.

[dreadedcandiru2]

I blame something I call the Edifice Complex. A sleazy old pol can slap his name on a building but not on a glass of drinkable water.

[howtheduck]

Every once in awhile I see a forward-thinking politician and it is like a breath of fresh air.

[stephanie_hawks]

I noticed that one of the border guards is inspecting April's teddy bear. I hope he's not going to cut it open to check for illegal drugs or other contraband. And are they going to confiscate Elizabeth's nail file?

[dreadedcandiru2]

I hope John buys April a new toy and Liz a replacement nail file. I also hope that April sticks him in a nursing home run by Nazis