Jesus Attempts to ram SWA Flight in Fort Myers; Will Airlines Be Saved?

[FN FAL]

FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) -- A driver believed to be mentally ill crashed through a fence and led police on a high-speed chase around a runway, endangering passengers on two planes, authorities said.

The car crashed through a perimeter security gate and onto a runway at Southwest Florida International Airport, came close to a Southwest Airlines plane that was taking off Tuesday night and sped under the wing of another plane preparing to depart, authorities said.

"The (Southwest) pilot appeared to be forced to take off suddenly to avoid hitting the suspect's vehicle, which was traveling in the same direction on the active runway," Lee County Port Authority Police Officer John Millican said.

The chase began when a Lee County sheriff's deputy showed up at 34-year-old Jack J. Brems' Fort Myers home on a disturbance call. A port authority officer picked up the chase after Brems' car crashed through the airport security gate.

Brems was arrested after his car crashed into a pond. He faces six charges, including fleeing police and reckless driving. He remained jailed Thursday, according to jail records, which did not indicate whether he has a lawyer yet.

Brems' former father-in-law, Dennis Mucerino, said Brems had been treated for mental illness and had recently started referring to himself as Jesus.

"He kept preaching the Bible," said Mucerino, who lives two doors down from Brems in San Carlos Park. "He was coming down to my house. He wouldn't stop talking. You couldn't get a word in. I told him to go away because I didn't like dealing with him."

The Transportation Security Administration sent inspectors to the airport to ensure officials were complying with the security program, spokesman Christopher White said.

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[NuGuy]

Must be a full moon or something...

Nu

 

[FN FAL]

Must be a full moon or something...

Nu

So much for 'white' guys not being terrorismodromic.

 

[Applemac]

If he had been a terrorist, he wouldn't have missed the jet.

Unfortunately, this headline has now given Muslims yet another idea as far as how to threaten us.

 

[AngelKing]

I guess they were right after all, he did come back.

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[ivauir]

So much for 'white' guys not being terrorismodromic.

One nut job compares to an well organised, well funded campaign of murder supported by a large number of the followers of a religion? Nice try FN.

 

[regionaltard]

One nut job compares to an well organised, well funded campaign of murder supported by a large number of the followers of a religion? Nice try FN.

You forgot "And never officially denounced by the leaders of that religion."

 

[30West]

Maybe he had just finished watching "Bullitt"!

 

[Aerosurfer]

well as long as he didnt have any liquids, creams or lotions in the car with him, the TSA should have nothing further

 

[FN FAL]

One nut job compares to an well organised, well funded campaign of murder supported by a large number of the followers of a religion? Nice try FN.

We, as a society, are vulnerable to all nut jobs...regardless of whether they think they are Jesus, are Muslim extremists or are disgruntled veterans like Timothy McVeigh or Charles Whitman.

The main thing is that we, as a society, do not sell out our freedoms in exchange for a promise of security.

We'll get the nut jobs, we always do. Meanwhile, the rest of us would like to maintain our dignity and freedoms as citizens of this great country.

 

[Itsallsogood]

and Southwest wasn't even cleared for departure.

 

[Benhuntn]

Yeah he was we are always cleared for takeoff when we call for push. That is why we can cut in line.

 

[Hair-on-Fire]

One nut job compares to an well organised, well funded campaign of murder supported by a large number of the followers of a religion? Nice try FN.

The crusades? or maybe the Nazi's?

 

[jetalc]

...terrorismodromic.

Now THAT's one heck of a word!

 

[dkwid]

The crusades? or maybe the Nazi's?

PRECISELY

more recently....remember Oklahoma City. How quickly some forget. How about Northern Ireland.

It is incredibly unfortunate how some opt to make gross generalizations. It is true that the terrorist acts as of late have come from individuals who borrow from and claim to represent a religion and this is humanly unforgiveable. The facts remain, however, as they have from the begining of organized religion that the vast majority of people are good loving human beings. Unfortunately fear and obtuseness drives people with more tunnalized vision to pick sides and continue the cycle of hate, killing and war, and quite frankly all the major religious organizations share in this blame as they strugled for power throughout time. It would be a grand thing if we could all interanlize our faith, shed our fears, truly get to know each other and live together. If people think that these terrorist acts and attempted acts are a reflection of all Muslims...well you all have completely given in to the goals of these people who represent a fraction of a fraction of the world population and desire nothing more than for us all to pick sides and kill each other.

I honostly don't which prophet a person follows, but I truly hope that in the end the rational humans, that live their lives searching through historical fact rather than ancient text are able to shed good will around the world.....and perhaps extremism in all its form will fade away.

 

[Flycatcher99]

PRECISELY

more recently....remember Oklahoma City. How quickly some forget. How about Northern Ireland.

If you're implying that the OKC bombing had some kind of direct or indirect roots in religious (namely, Christian) beliefs, then you couldn't be further from the truth.

It's really tiring when uninformed people make grossly uneducated generalizations about all religions being equally violent or equally passive. When the best examples one can come up with to attempt to bring Christianity down to Islam's level are the Crusades (a defensive measure to stem the attacks of Muslims upon Europe) and the Oklahoma City bombing (perpetrated by a self-avowed agnostic with no religious motivation), then one hopefully realizes that one is grasping at straws.