LeonB1985 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 4, posted (7 years 1 month 2 weeks 4 days 7 hours ago) and read 1761 times:
Also - who knows what could happen in the world before the 2007 New Year's Day Parade...! Or do the Floridians have intelligence that something is going to 'go down' on that particular day in London?! Maybe the USA will advise all its citizens to leave the UK, it's just far too dangerous!
Banco From United Kingdom, joined Oct 2001, 14752 posts, RR: 55 Reply 5, posted (7 years 1 month 2 weeks 4 days 7 hours ago) and read 1751 times:
Quoting LeonB1985 (Reply 4): Maybe the USA will advise all its citizens to leave the UK, it's just far too dangerous!
Well, it's fair enough to criticise the school, but we don't need to widen it to the whole country. Governor Bush's comments seem fairly scathing about the decision.
She's as nervous as a very small nun at a penguin shoot.
Skidmarks From UK - England, joined Dec 2004, 7121 posts, RR: 60 Reply 6, posted (7 years 1 month 2 weeks 4 days 7 hours ago) and read 1743 times:
Seems that the isolationist policy of some years back is alive and well in Florida. Ah well, a lot of disappointed kids are going to be voting something else when it's their turn to vote.
Lets face it, the most dangerous thing in London is Ken Livingstone
L-188 From United States of America, joined Jul 1999, 29350 posts, RR: 62 Reply 9, posted (7 years 1 month 2 weeks 4 days 7 hours ago) and read 1716 times:
Quoting Piercey (Reply 2): Our school is still going to Paris and look at all the cr@p going on their! this is a load of cr@p.
Yeah but if you threaten them, they at least surrender....
OBAMA-WORST PRESIDENT EVER....Even SKOORB would be better.
Highpeaklad From United Kingdom, joined Aug 2004, 538 posts, RR: 0 Reply 11, posted (7 years 1 month 2 weeks 4 days 5 hours ago) and read 1638 times:
I've always thought the safest time to visit anywhere was just after aterrorist attack, or at least to a place that has been attacked. At least those places know the threat is real and don't have the "it won't happen here " mentality.
I find the phrase in the article "He said there are plenty of opportunities for marching bands such as college bowl games or holiday parades in major cities, where student safety is assured." particularly chilling.
Chris
Don't try to keep up with the Joneses - bring them down to your level !
767Lover From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 12, posted (7 years 1 month 2 weeks 4 days 5 hours ago) and read 1623 times:
I think it's wrong to not go, but then again we live in such a litigious society I imagine the school board is afraid of being liable in the (unlikely) event that something happens.
Espion007 From Denmark, joined Dec 2003, 1691 posts, RR: 0 Reply 13, posted (7 years 1 month 2 weeks 4 days 4 hours ago) and read 1614 times:
Hey, I live near washington DC-and was downtown today. I must be flirting with death
Quoting 767Lover (Reply 13): I think it's wrong to not go, but then again we live in such a litigious society I imagine the school board is afraid of being liable in the (unlikely) event that something happens.
Seriously, whats the chances of something happening thats terroristic (is that a word?)
Leezyjet From United Kingdom, joined Oct 2001, 4041 posts, RR: 55 Reply 15, posted (7 years 1 month 2 weeks 4 days 4 hours ago) and read 1579 times:
Behaviour like this means the Terrorists have won.
Thats exactly what they wanted to acheive by striking fear into people, and in this case it seems to have worked.
Does this mean that the school won't allow those kids to cross the street, as there is a higher chance of them being knocked down than there is of being caught up in a terrorist attack.
More people are killed in road accidents around the world than have ever been killed by terrorism - just one is so common it doesn't even make the news.
Some people need to get reality check
"She Rolls, 45 knots, 90, 135, nose comes up to 20 degrees, she's airborne - She flies, Concorde Flies"
Nonrevman From United States of America, joined Nov 2001, 1289 posts, RR: 1 Reply 16, posted (7 years 1 month 2 weeks 4 days 3 hours ago) and read 1559 times:
I like the British answer to all of this. Let's face it, going to Ft. Meyers is like rolling the dice. You could get washed away by a hurricane! Also, many regard Florida as being the birthplace of road rage. I was giving some students information on electricity, and we discovered that central Florida is in fact the "lightning strike" capital of the world. Sheeesh, give me London any day.........
Daedaeg From United States of America, joined Feb 2003, 649 posts, RR: 1 Reply 17, posted (7 years 1 month 2 weeks 4 days 1 hour ago) and read 1520 times:
This is too bad. The marching band is going to miss out on an opportunity to experience London.
LTBEWR From United States of America, joined Jan 2004, 12329 posts, RR: 12 Reply 18, posted (7 years 1 month 2 weeks 3 days 22 hours ago) and read 1481 times:
I can understand to some extent of the fears of that school board. The visit was to be during a New Year's Day parade, which could be a terror target. But then again, so could downtown Miami, New York City and so on. London has had plenty of experience with terror in their long history and since the 1960's with IRA and Islamic related terror attacks. I have been in London and many other areas of Europe since the 1980's that have also been subject to terror attacks but still felt safe.
This was also very expensive and the money (about $250,000) could be better spent on scholrships or college tutition for themselves or fellow students. The school board may have also had issues with the special or higher premiums for their liability insurance.
LeonB1985 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 19, posted (7 years 1 month 2 weeks 3 days 15 hours ago) and read 1453 times:
Quoting Greasespot (Reply 15):
Guess the problem is if there is a terroristic attack anywhere in Europe some parents will sue the school board....(assholes)
Surely the 'asshole' parents just shouldn't give consent for their child to participate, in that case.
Oli80 From United Kingdom, joined Feb 2006, 685 posts, RR: 0 Reply 20, posted (7 years 1 month 2 weeks 3 days 14 hours ago) and read 1428 times:
Quoting Highpeaklad (Reply 11): I've always thought the safest time to visit anywhere was just after aterrorist attack, or at least to a place that has been attacked. At least those places know the threat is real and don't have the "it won't happen here " mentality.
I used to think like this as well. But, there was that failed attack just a week after the initial attack in London. Sure, it failed, but the intent was there.
LHMARK From United States of America, joined Jan 2000, 7255 posts, RR: 51 Reply 23, posted (7 years 1 month 2 weeks 3 days 13 hours ago) and read 1399 times:
What a retard. Some of these kids will never got to Europe again in their lives, and they're going to miss the empathy and appreciation one gets for other cultures when travelling, just because this dude's a xenophobic ass.
If he's lucky, a school superintent position might open up in Kansas.
"Sympathy is something that shouldn't be bestowed on the Yankees. Apparently it angers them." - Bob Feller
Greyhound From United States of America, joined Mar 2005, 1026 posts, RR: 2 Reply 24, posted (7 years 1 month 2 weeks 3 days 13 hours ago) and read 1396 times:
“We’re leery of loading 140 students onto an airplane and flying across the ocean to London, where they just had a terrorist attack,” said Herb Wiseman, who oversees secondary operations for Lee County schools. “We don’t think at this time that it’s worth the risk.”
This guy was repeatedly dropped on the head as a kid. Honestly... I think Florida has more problems than London right now. In fact if I had the money, I would take my wife and I over to England for a little trip. My mom has a friend that lives in Lancashire, I believe.
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25 Oli80: I was due to go to Israel for a football competition in 1999 with my school (The British School in the Netherlands). 2 weeks before the competition wa
26 Delta767300ER: Remember, most Floridians are not from Florida but have moved down here from other states...... -Delta767300ER
27 JRadier: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO I'm going on vacation to Ft. Myers (well, Naples actually), do I have to cancel my trip now?
28 Cadet57: bit of a redundant statement, imho yes, as you will be hit by a fluke hurricane, attacked by gators and be called a "dang foreigner" that and the EU
29 LHMARK: Florida. Where the state motto is "She hit me first."
30 Banco: The irony of this of course, is that something like 40% of overseas visitors to Florida are British. This little spat won't make the slightest differe
31 Greyhound: Oh stop... I'm starting to laugh hard enough it hurts. But you also forgot to mention that when it doesn't rain you get fires up the ying yang in the
32 DeltaGator: I was so hoping that this school was in Broward or Dade County since those yahoos are the root cause of most trouble in the state. Unfortunately it w
33 Boeing Nut: We’re leery of loading 140 students onto an airplane and flying across the ocean to London, where they just had a terrorist attack Oh...............
34 Greyhound: We get the same in Arizona and the results are often devastating, except we don't get the rain.
36 USAFHummer: Was it me, or did the CNN article in the original post seem like it could have been taken right out of "The Onion"? That might be the funniest actual
38 Arsenal@LHR: “We’re leery of loading 140 students onto an airplane and flying across the ocean to London, where they just had a terrorist attack,” said Herb
39 JRadier: How do you think they will respond to four dutchies walking around in Heineken shirts and a dutch flag on the 4th of july? (semi serious ) Sounds swe
40 N1120A: Not particularly. Jeb's words had pretty much no teeth at all.
41 BDKLEZ: What a twonk! The USA is probably one of the most dangerous places in the world with all the legal firearms knocking about. You just have to look at s
42 Tom in NO: .....and the state bird is the snowbird....and the state automobile is anything built by Buick. Btw, the principal is a paranoid moron. Tom at MSY
43 Flyboy36y: I wish that BA would pull out of MIA and any other FL airports that they fly to and the Brits issue a formal advisory against Florida travel. The prit
44 DeltaGator: First off, spell it right...it's Xenophobe. Second, don't punish the state because of one moron. Update from last night is that the Lee County School
45 Flyboy36y: At 3 am, I cant spell or type And I'd punish the state for other reasons such as bieng America's half-erect penis, Universal Studios, old people, KMI
47 Mhodgson: Dammit, I'd repressed that memory! Good to see people have seen sense over the issue.
48 Greyhound: They're still not getting me frosted Lucky Charms.
49 DeltaGator: Crap! Now that damn song is in my head too. Damn you Flyboy36y! Again, spell it right. But even as a native Florida Cracker I think we should be puni
50 Banco: I'm not sure it matters. Enough people over there have made the point that it was a daft decision in the first place, and ultimately, that's what's i
51 Piercey: All three TB fans want to kill you now people from America actually have a brain? OMFG!!!!! It's a miracle!!!!! Don't make me send BC!
53 Greyhound: Bring in Kansas City fans and you MIGHT have a 6 pack.
54 BDKLEZ: Something tells me you won't. The difference being that the guys who make this stuff... ...don't consider themselves to be the right hand of national
55 B6sea: OK first of all, I dont agree with what the Ft. Myers school board did, but in this forum the idiocy is clearly in the court of the foreigners... no o
56 LHMARK: Dude, I'm American and I don't comprehend that.
57 Delta767300ER: Ya they do! I'm not a native Floridian but I'm from the state North of Florida and have lived here for a long time. Sometimes when I go to West Palm
58 Banco: What a load of nonsense. Huge numbers of Brits go to the US on holiday - and to Florida at that. Huge numbers of Brits (including me) made a specific
59 N1120A: That post just about sums it up. It goes to the very roots of the problems facing the US today.
60 DeltaGator: Come college football season check out the regional maps of what games are shown where. While the Florida/FSU/Miami games will all get shown in the s
61 B6sea: I'm not saying you don't like the US, thats totally not the point. I'm also not saying that I dont like Europe. You're right, in the sense that I hav
62 Stirling: The school will probably wind up rescheduling for another parade somewhere, like the Orange Bowl Parade...............in Miami. Because we all know Mi
63 ME AVN FAN: - What counts is not so much whether you Irish drink it, but that you continue to produce it ! - understandable, but regrettable.
64 DeltaGator: That's because the British are much more polite than the Damn Yankees that have invaded the Sunshine State. And in spite of the yankees moving South
65 Fumanchewd: London scares the hell out of me. Tall towers with people getting beheaded inside, Jack the Ripper, and don't get me started on the condescending and
66 Banco: So what you're saying is that it's perfectly fine for people in Florida to be so insular that they say they won't go to London because it's not safe,
67 Gatorman96: Wow, I'm surprised how some people are so offended by this. Who gives a sh!t. It is one school led by one idiot who is totally closed-minded. How bout
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