Quite the opposite: they want us to feel good that the marshalls are on top of it.

not true. They busted that myth on mythbusters :thumbsup

welp the moral of this is that if you say you have a bomb on a plane you will die

CNN is such a hype machine... instead of one screen they have multiple screens of the same drama for you to view at once...

Wolf Blitzer sure knows how to make any news story seem like the end of the world and make you afraid to leave your house, i guess that's why he gets paid the big bucks...

And what does "Breaking News" mean? didnt it already break? so it should be "Broken News" or how about just "News".... I am looking at the screen now and it says "Breaking News" in two different graphics on the screen, talk about hype! Where's my remote control...

Man killed after bomb claim at airport

Official: Air marshals fired after he approached them aggressively

Wednesday, December 7, 2005; Posted: 5:26 p.m. EST (22:26 GMT)

MIAMI, Florida (CNN) -- A 44-year-old U.S. citizen who claimed to have a bomb was shot and killed when air marshals opened fire on a boarding bridge at the Miami airport, several sources told CNN.

American Airlines Flight 924 was in Miami on a stopover during a flight from Medellin, Colombia, to Orlando, Florida, when the man, identified as Rigoberto Alpizar, said there was a bomb in his carry-on luggage, a Department of Homeland Security official said.

Alpizar was confronted by a team of federal air marshals, who followed him down the boarding bridge and ordered him to get on the ground, the official said. ( Watch the aftermath of the shooting -- 1:36)

When Alpizar appeared to reach into his baggage, he was shot and wounded, the official said, adding that the marshals' actions were consistent with their training. Officials said later that the man died of his injuries.

Upon investigation, there was no evidence that Alpizar had a bomb, an official said.

Alpizar was traveling with a woman and had arrived in Miami on a plane from Ecuador, federal officials said. He and the woman began arguing before getting off the plane in Miami, two officials said.

After he got off the plane in Miami and went through customs, he got on the Orlando-bound plane and said he had a bomb, Air Marshal Service spokesman Dave Adams said.

Air marshals asked him to get off the plane, which he did, but when they asked him to put his bag down, he refused, Adams said. Alpizar then approached the marshals in an aggressive manner, at which point two or three shots were fired, he said.

This is the first time an air marshal has fired a weapon on or near an airplane, a federal official said.

Footage from the scene showed armed SWAT team members carrying rifles outside the aircraft, along with more than a dozen police vehicles. Paramedics were standing on the stairway to the aircraft.

The Boeing 757, which can hold about 180 passengers, was due to take off for Orlando at 2:18 p.m. ET. It had arrived in Miami at 12:16 p.m. ET, according to the airline's Web site. No other flights at Miami International were disrupted Wednesday, an airport official said.

Don't fuck with the man with the gun......

If you fear for your life, its legal to shoot people in Florida under the new state law Gov. Jeb Bush signed this year.

:thumbsup

He 'said he had a bomb' .... yeah, right, you bunch of gun toting cowards.

What do you expect when you shout "I have a bomb" on a US airport?

almost fiddy

50 dumbasses shot

If you shot and killed someone, you'd pretend they shouted that also. :2 cents:

you shouldn't be claiming to have a bomb in an airport...dumbass move...

Apparently he was a retard with mental problems.

Lesson learned : Don't put retards on planes...

You're right. Better to leave it to chance that he's only kidding.



:eek7

At least when you wanna commit suicide do it on a spectacular way...Looks like he did it:)

You believe that the guy said he had a bomb?

A paranoid US official killed another innocent lives.Shame!

I am glad the marshal killed the guy. I hope the he gets a medal.

I can't wait for the day when someone on a plane screams they have a bomb, nobody takes him serious, then boom !! He blows the shit up killing hundreds.

And everyone will say "why didn't they just shoot him since he said he had a bomb?"...

why are you glad? i mean, i could care less either way because the idiot said he had a bomb...but someone being shot and killed doesn't make me very happy.

Marshal shot dead a suspected bomber on plane. :ak47:

Who needs CNN when you have GFY and it's hundreds of reporters

You believe he didn't?

If you know something first-hand that the rest of the world doesn't then spit it out man.

Witnesses are saying the guy ran... why would he run if he was innocent?
After laying down he started to reach into his bag..... why?

If what the witnesses are saying is true, I would have shot him too.


What I believe is that US air marshals are not going to put up with any horseshit on a plane, period.

That's what I believe.

not one witness has come forward and said they heard him


im back now that i know some facts

wheres warpig...he shoudl be next in line to be shot

Where in my above post did I say witnesses "heard" him?

Try again.

from amn earlier post of yours..you assumed he said he had a bomb...the only one who says he said he had a bomb is the trigger happy steroid monkey of a cop who shot him

"Your assumptions and theories are what's killing me.

If someone close to me was on that plane I would prefer they shot a potential bomber rather than give him the benefit of the doubt and later have dozens or hundreds of people die.

And... it doesn't take a genius to figure out that nowadays you don't joke around about shit like that on an airliner.

Ever"

there was no joking around...he never said he had a bomb...he has mental problems and rushed to get off the plane

Fear is the biggest mind killer

amen Brad.

No, I was commenting on what was being reported. What was being reported was that he said he had a bomb. My perspective was from the point of view of hyperthetically assuming that to be true. As in, "if that's the way it went down, then..."

No further arguing, this should clear up that point.


Did the air marshals have prior knowledge of his supposed mental illness? I dont think so.

I've already posted it, but just for you I'll say it again.... IF the cops/authorities are in the wrong then those involved deserve to fry.

I will add though that although I'm no fan of cops in the least, my advice is to never run from them, especially in an airport. Obey their commands, especially when they have their guns trained on you. Don't make sudden moves while they have guns on you.

To do otherwise is to risk having your dumbass head shot off.

Where you there?

You don't know what he actually said or didn't say, do you?

No, didn't think so.


If you want to find something fishy in all this, why not look at what the bomb squad did to the guy's luggage afterwards. They apparently examined it, then blew it up. Some might think that sounds like they blew it up to destroy evidence.

800 witnesses in total...and not one person says they heard him say bomb

coverup...yes

keep your head in the sand..it is safer that way

Do you think a real bomber will actually tell you that he has a bomb ???

Wasn't he in Return of the Jedi? Oh wait, that was Admiral Ackbar, on one of the Calamari cruisers that was attacked the Death Star....