Originally Posted by
crackerdog
A little out of touch there. Maybe they should try googling the phrase first. We have the same stupid things on the ferry system here. Someone reports they heard someone say something about a bomb, so they stop the ferry and spend two hours going over the ferry looking for something that was never there. We have military ships coming in with two military gunships running along side, what? If a miltary ship can't protect itself in the Puget Sound it shouldn't be going to war.
The smaller boats can run interference and determine if someone acting stupidly when told to get away is really a threat. Would you rather the Gunner's Mates obliterate a boat with an inebriated or stupid skipper with a 50 caliber machine gun?
I wonder what the general consensus would be if authorities had a chance to stop something and didn't?