Saturday, February 27, 2010

Suspicious Activities

I spent the week in Minneapolis for work.  It’s a fairly frequent trip for me.  I usually stay at the Cambria by Mall of America.  It’s a great hotel except for the sketchy wifi in the rooms.  I always take a 25 ft. cable with me just in case. 

The hotel is also right across I494 from the airport.  The flight path for one of the runways puts planes flying roughly level with the top of the hotel at no more than 300 yards away.  The hotel has some fantastic soundproofing, so the sound is almost completely blocked out, but it’s kind of fun to watch the planes coming in.  This time I decided to capture it on video via my cell phone.  After recording the second plane coming in for a landing, it occurred to me how suspicious I must look to an observer.  Here I am taping planes coming in for a landing from an ideal spot to blow one of them up.  Fortunately, I don’t think anyone saw me grin

(7) Comments
Posted by Owen at 0936 hrs
Off-Duty

  1. It’s ok - everybody knows that white people can’t be terrorists

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on February 27, 2010 at 1014 hrs


  2. We lived a block from the MOA before moving to Burnsville 2 years ago and the soundproofing was amazing.  Opening/shutting the door or a window the sound was night and day.  Of course, the soundproof windows were the result of a stupid lawsuit that required the airport commission to pay for the windows of everyone within a few miles of the airport.  It’s like they think people are too stupid to figure out that they’re moving next to an airport and it will be loud…

    Posted by Joey on February 27, 2010 at 1100 hrs


  3. I dunno, Owen ... with that grill you supposedly don’t own

    http://realdebatewisconsin.blogspot.com/2010/02/caption-this_25.html

    and the gun rack at the side of your bed (Wendy and the kids probably each have one too wink )

    http://www.bootsandsabers.com/index.php/weblog/permalink/the_backup/

    Would this be much of a stretch?  LOL

    Posted by hsgbdmama on February 27, 2010 at 1102 hrs


  4. I love that airport.  I loved the old Northwest. 

    But what happens to that place now that Delta owns the joint?  I’m guessing job loss and far less flights coming into the Twin Cities. 

    I remember the Nashville airport used to be a massive AA hub and now much of it is a ghost town.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on February 27, 2010 at 1150 hrs


  5. On a joint exercise I was involved in at Rhein-Main Airbase there was an occasion where I stopped and snapped a couple of frames of British CH-47s on the flight-line. Needless to say, within 5 minutes, before I even got to the gate, SPs had me pulled over, film confiscated and a VERY stern warning. They commented that they did the same to civilians at Frankfurt International Airport across the tarmac. And I had a TS clearance. Yes, if you were seen, you would have raised eyebrows….

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on February 27, 2010 at 1426 hrs


  6. Owen, I think you had better keep one eye over your shoulder. A known subversive like you, engaging in suspicious behavior…

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on February 27, 2010 at 1507 hrs


  7. The war on photography is stupid.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on February 27, 2010 at 1718 hrs


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