Photo: The WMD that caused today's DC "red alert" and evacuation

[paineinthearse]

Copy and paste to your browser, it does not paint here, but does to my computer. Just close-up after the"//"

http:/ / us.news3.yimg.com/img.news.yahoo.com/util/anysize/300,http%3A%2F%2Fus.news2.yimg.com%2Fus.yimg.com%2Fp%2Fap%2F20050511%2Fcapt.ny13005111801.capitol_ny130.jpg?v=1.jpg

In this image made from video, A two-seater Cessna 150 sits on the runway at Frederick Municipal Airport in Frederick, Md. Wednesday, May 11, 2005. The U.S. Capitol and White House were evacuated Wednesday after the plane entered restricted airspace. Military jets scrambled to intercept the aircraft and fired warning flares. Two men in the aircraft were later taken into custody at the Maryland airport where the plane landed after a military escort. (AP Photo/WTTG) Wed May 11, 2:01 PM ET

[uppityperson]

1. Looks dangerous to me. I feel safe now.

OH MY GOD!!!!!!111 I just saw one fly over me here!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Cooley Hurd]

2. Don't laugh - the C150 is a dangerous weapon...

...in the hands of a Spartan School of Aeronautics student, that is! (Tulsa DUers will know what I mean...;))

[izzie]

3. Heck a horse can kill you.

A one leg 80 year old man in his car did more to kill, than this guy did in his plane.

[unhappycamper]

4. Here's how to get the entire link easily:

Go to http://tinyurl.com/

Scroll down a bit & you will see the section "Add TinyURL to your toolbar." Follow thiese directions.

With TinyURL on your toolbar, open up a web page. (I used your picture for this part.) With your picture opened, I pressed TinyURL on my tool bar. Here's what happened:

<snip>

TinyURL was created!

The following URL:

http://us.news3.yimg.com/img.news.yahoo.com/util/anysize/300
,http%3A%2F%2Fus.news2.yimg.com%2Fus.yimg.com%2Fp%2Fap%2F200
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has a length of 172 characters and resulted in the following TinyURL which has a length of 24 characters:

http://tinyurl.com/c2ved

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You can now paste URL

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into your message.

[paineinthearse]

10. thanks!

[SoCalDem]

11. Just remove everything from the question mark on and the picture will show

http://us.news3.yimg.com/img.news.yahoo.com/util/anysize/300,http%3A%2F%2Fus.news2.yimg.com%2Fus.yimg.com%2Fp%2Fap%2F20050511%2Fcapt.ny13005111801.capitol_ny130.jpg

[atommom]

5. OMG! We really are in danger from the terra-ists!

:rofl:

[spooked911]

6. Was someone really afraid enough of that plane to order evacuation

of the WH and Congress--- or was it all a scam?

What a fucking joke our government has become after 9/11.

[whistle]

7. nothing works for me

[RevolutionStartsNow]

8. fix the http:// at the beginnning of the address

there are extra spaces that shouldn't be there, between and after the /

[whistle]

13. Ok, there are two spaces, I didn't notice the space between :/ /

...I just saw the space between / u

[SoCalDem]

12. remove the question mark and everything after..pic here

http://us.news3.yimg.com/img.news.yahoo.com/util/anysize/300,http%3A%2F%2Fus.news2.yimg.com%2Fus.yimg.com%2Fp%2Fap%2F20050511%2Fcapt.ny13005111801.capitol_ny130.jpg

[paineinthearse]

9. F-15 1, Cessna zip

http://news.yahoo.com/photos/gallery/705

[whistle]

14. That looks like a jet and a bird

[meganmonkey]

15. It's such a cute widdle baby-pwane!

Aaaawwwwwww. :P

[ewagner]

16. Just like mine

except mine was red and white....

[paineinthearse]

17. From Kucinich's blog

http://www.kucinich.us/

May 11, 2005 12:51 pm ET

Evacuating the Capitol
All-clear now sounded

I was standing on the floor of the House, speaking with Neil Abercrombie of Hawaii about legislation we are about to introduce to get the US out of Iraq when a great commotion occurred inside the chamber. "Get down, get down!" someone shouted. A rumor of explosives in the House Gallery. Members crouched behind benches. The Speaker of the House, Dennis Hastert, was standing just a few steps away. He was immediately surrounded by a number of security personnel who whisked him off the floor. Members then ran from the floor, down the stairs and out the side entrances, joining thousands of tourists, running down the streets away from the Capitol. It was a scene reminiscent of 911 which occurred exactly forty-four months ago, except for a fighter jet which soared above. I Iearned from police and other members that a Code Red had been declared. The first one. It meant there was an imminent danger, from the air? Rumors of a plane invading Capitol airspace. But then...

No more jets. The skies were quiet, but sirens screamed, limousines carrying foreign leaders sped away, capitol police waved their machine guns as they barked instructions to the crowds to move away from the Capitol. Thousands streamed away and then, just as quickly, they streamed back toward the Capitol as an "all clear" was announced.