What's with the magic planecrash-resistant passports???

[BlueEyedSon]

Yankees pitcher feared dead

* Small plane smashes into high-rise building
* Yankees manager: Pitcher Cory Lidle owned plane
* Sources: Lidle feared dead; passport found in road
* Flight restrictions imposed around crash site

http://www.cnn.com/

[BootinUp]

1. That vinyl is some tough stuff. n/t

[Freedom_from_Chains]

2. He must of thrown it out the window before he hit. n/t

[katty]

10. yeah, like that' a normal thing to do! right....

[MoonRiver]

3. I really don't think I should go there.

My head might just explode! :crazy::nuke:

[tanyev]

4. Maybe I should take a match to mine and see if it's even

possible to burn the thing. No, wait, I may need that to get into Canada. Know any freepers who could conduct an experiment for us?

[Atman]

5. Freepers with PASSPORTS!?

BWHAHAHA! What would be the point? Doesn't every other country suck? Freepers are like W...they never travel. Bush had never visited anywhere but Mexico for some tequila and donkey sex shows when he was coronated.

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[BrotherBuzz]

7. Silly, you don't need a passport to go to Disneyland

:crazy:

[Rude Horner]

6. I was thinking the same thing

Didn't that happen with one of the supposed 911 hijackers, also?

Damn convenient how these identifying documents always seem to survive the crashes and land in plain (no pun intended) site.

[ecstatic]

8. it reeks of the Bush Crime Family

whenever I hear about explosion-proof passports, I immediately suspect hands on involvement by the BFEE.

Imagine this scenario, an unknown government official contacts Lidle and befriends him, and then asks to go for a plane ride. The plane is then hijacked and forced into a building (the BFEE staffer's family is well compensated, of course).

[katty]

9. yup, passport found....o, gawd, pleeeezzzze - sounds very familiar

[spoony]

22. Motive?

I mean, really, are you taking the piss with that? Tell me that was a joke.

[Jacobin]

11. Yes. It should have been instantly incinerated according to

tinfoil physics.

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

20. I have to wonder if any of the tinfoilers...

...have ever seen a passport, seeing as one isn't required to leave mom's basement.

[niyad]

12. where was he flying that he needed a passport?

[davekriss]

13. I was just about to ask that question...

...who amongst us (small plane pilots and passengers) carry a passport with us when taking a recreational flight around Manhattan?

[ProdigalJunkMail]

15. i carry my passport with me everywhere

so it really isn't the most unusual thing in the world...heck i am not even a millionaire with the ability to travel anywhere pretty much anytime I want...

sP

[davekriss]

16. You are the first person to ever tell me that

and my colleagues travel the world (China, India, Europe, the Phillipines).

[ProdigalJunkMail]

18. they must not travel on short notice then

I have my passport and current visas (for about 5 countries at any time) with me in the laptop bag at all times. I couldn't do my job without it. And anyone who makes frequent trips to Canada or Mexico might well carry theirs a lot as well rather than hassle with a birth certificate. I just don't understand why people are surprised that a millionaire...flying a plane...relatively close to Canada...would not have a passport on him.

sP

[davekriss]

23. They travel about 50% of the time

For all I know they carry same with them at all times. Me, I've only gotten to go to the UK one time. Chalk it up to inexperience (my incredulity over the baseball player's passport being found).

[Poll_Blind]

19. I do it too. A globetrotter I ain't, either. It's kind of uber-ID.

Plus it's good longer than my regular state ID.

PB

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

21. Do you even HAVE a passport? n/t

[ContraBass Black]

14. It's amazing.

Nothing identifiable ever comes out of a plane crash.

[ScreamingMeemie]

17. My great uncle's wedding ring, a picture of my grandma, his gloves

and his hat came out of his fiery crash in WWII. Why did he carry a picture of my grandma with him? Because she was his baby, and only, sister. :hi:

[The Magistrate]

24. Paper Does Pretty Well In Exposions, Sir

It is light, and can move on the outer bubble of the blast, being put quickly beyond the heat of combustion.