As I ride to and from work everyday I continue to notice that most subway riders are carrying backpacks bigger than washing machines and if they are loaded with explosives, are capable of blowing up a good chunk of Manhattan.
At least once a week I see someone who looks exactly like Osama Bin Laden with one of those washing machine sized backpacks. But hey, not to worry. The geniuses in charge of our safety somehow have determined that it's much more acceptable for subway riders to be blown to pieces than airline passengers.
Of course there is the sporadic "voluntary" NYPD bag search that most terrorists carrying explosives I'm sure will volunteer to go through.
At this point you might think I want the subway stations to have airport type security. Nope!
I think it's all a big waste of our money. In our free society, getting blown up by from crazy people comes with the territory. Airport security is just a big expensive show that accomplishes nothing. Airports are constantly failing tests as plastic explosives are smuggled through by inspectors checking the system. I much rather see billions of dollars spent on making planes take off and land on time, than stupid security checks of 85 year old grandmothers forced to take off their orthopedics.
My suggestion would be to go back to the old airport security, screen for weapons and dump the ludicrous idea that the billions spent on elaborate airport security really works.
Hey I have to go, Osama Bin Laden just sat next to me on the subway...and he's ticking!
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John Deutzman, a New York native, has been working as a reporter at Fox 5 News since September of 2001. John has won 12 career Emmys and has received 28 Emmy nominations. He's known for his aggressive and at times humorous style when catching bad guys and exposing scams for the Fox 5 Investigative Unit. John's stories have resulted in arrests, businesses being shut down and dozens victims getting their money back from scam artists. Before moving back to New York, John spent 11 years in Miami, first as a sports reporter but when hurricane Andrew struck, John was thrown into news reporting and evenutally made the full time switch to news. John also had stints in Binghamton,New York and Springfield,Massachusetts
. A native of Smithtown,Long Island, John is an 11th-generation Long Islander. He describes himself as a 50/50 mix of his two grandfathers. One grandfather was a journalist who owned the town paper, the "Smithtown Messenger" and the other was one of the first cops in town who had a reputation for being tough and crazy but fair.
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