To be fair, after the attacks on 9/11 I heard a fair number of comments from people who were convinced their local high school football stadium would be a prime target for international terror rings.
“Think about it, Becky. It’s Friday night and the whole town of Left Nube, Indiana will be packed in there. We’re sitting ducks.”
It’s silly, but people project their fear locally.
At least the city I lived in was close enough to “primary nuclear strike” targets to be demolished by shockwave.
Never mind the fact that that’s nuclear strike targets, not “Terrorist-hijacked-jets” target. Clearly people tend not to think rationally about these things.
Are you between the two nuclear labs in the Bay area? Those always show up as top targets and people always brought it up
The Midwest is full of missile silos that are on MAD target lists. There’s possibly more legitimate fear that terrorists could target something in San Francisco or similarly popular places. Terrorists also want attention, so a place with lots of news coverage is better too.
Well, I HOPE most people think rationally, but the ones who are going to whine about the local sports match? … Yeah, agreed.
My dad pointed out to me as a kid that the city next to us would be a nuke target because it held the US strategic reserve of silicon carbide, a substance critical to grinding parts (e.g. making weapons).
After 911 a woman in my city (Portland Oregon) called the police because she saw powder on the hood of her parked car - parked under trees that were shedding pollen. She though fer sher that evildoers were targeting her with anthrax spores or something. The police are required to respond to those calls with full bio-emergency gear, so it was a huge scene, road blocked off, police vans everywhere, people in full body protective gear taking samples of the “anthrax” from her car. The end result was a public announcement from the police asking the public to please use common sense before calling. The drama going on in people’s heads sometimes … yikes.
Dude, you don’t have to make up Left Nube, Indiana when the state has Floyd’s Knobs and French Lick.
You mean they project their insecurities.
Wolverines!
Left Nube… That’s a city Colin Mochrie made up, isn’t it?
It is. And it has permanently entered our household lexicon.
Whoever thought it was funny to parasail over the village, it was in extremely poor taste. Take your twisted hatred somewhere else
Hate of what? Gravity?
This woman should make herself available to studies of the mind.
“We investigated thoroughly and came away with no findings”
“The lab results from the brain dissection were inconclusive, but the available data has lead us to formulate a new hypothesis. This sort of anomalously delusional thinking pattern may have been effected by excessive exposure to news and social media, but further research would be required.”
She is from rural Britain. What do you expect to find?
Hamas allegedly used paragliders to attack Israel, but the reporting about it is weird.
how does this get covered?
there’s a fella that lives in an alley near me that is always saying weird things, can we get a reporter over here and publish a story?
It’s ragebait.
I just like the idea that Hamas got all the way through a plan to invade britain that required them to train for aerial operations, arrange for a plane, convincingly penetrate british airspace from another EU country and yet they couldn’t figure out how to buy paragliders that weren’t hot pink.
A leisure paragliding club would be a perfect infiltration tactic/cover!
Ah yes, the highly respected Daily Mirror. I am 100% convinced this is a real thing that happened.
they write about a tweet, but don’t link it 🤔
Main Character Syndrome
I bet she complains about her kids being chronically online never noticing that she’s chronically watching the shittiest con news
Probably watches GB News
Yeah I didn’t really know what the equivalent of Fox News was on that side of the pond.
SLAMS!
Genius that one
long range paragliders
Sounds like planes with missing steps
9/11 hysteria all over again
lol found the Brexit voter
I smell a plot for Four Lions 2.0!
I wonder how long it’ll be till Tucker Gott gets reported for being in Hamas.
I think the Mirror made this up
