by chrismcb on 4/22/14, 1:09 AM
Good to know that TSA is keeping our airports safe.... I can't bring a bottle of water into the airport, but apparently anyone can climb a fence and plant a bomb.
by pjbrunet on 4/21/14, 6:16 PM
First, I want to know if he looked this up online before attempting it. Such a sad story (running from home) but makes me wonder if there's more "airborn hobos" out there. My next question is, what was he wearing? Did he have a sleeping bag? Did he really, really want to get to Hawaii? Did he want to get as far as possible from his parents? Or did he simply hide in the first plane he saw after jumping the fence?
by jessaustin on 4/21/14, 6:10 PM
by wavesounds on 4/21/14, 6:22 PM
I wonder how long someone could survive in this hypothermic state? Days? Months? Years? Decades? Imagine you were terminally ill could you hoist yourself in a weather balloon to 40k feet with an iv of nutrition and float around until they found a cure for your disease? It must be a lot cheaper then cryogenically freezing.
by ChrisNorstrom on 4/21/14, 6:11 PM
WHY IS THIS on the front page of Hacker News? This is a community of Entrepreneurs and Hackers. What is this Reddit now? Flag this crap into oblivion.
Edit: Thanks for the down votes. No I won't back down. I've seen this happen to Digg when it first started then Reddit and now HN. We used to be a community for hackers by hackers and entrepreneurs / aspiring entrepreneurs. Now we're being over-run by a group of info-addicted maniacs who want HN to turn into another time sink. Over the last 2 months I've been taking screenshots of the stupid nonsense that shows up on the front page. The pattern is undeniable. HN is getting more political and more off topic. The same thing that led to the downfall of Digg and Reddit and why we ran to HN to start anew.
Edit: Thank you to everyone who flagged it. It's gone now.
by drakaal on 4/21/14, 5:28 PM
FBI and Homeland Security need this to be a miracle, so Terrorist don't figure out that you could do the same thing with a bomb, and not have to even get on the plane.