Quite a few of the examples on this page are completely spoilered, which goes against Spoiler Policy; would anyone object if we put a 'due to the nature of this trope, you may find unmarked spoilers if you read on' warning in the description?
There was a story from Iraq where a 16 year old kid was in a burning vehicle with no way to get to him, and a soldier shot him so he didn't have to suffer. The soldier was later court marshaled for the war crime of shooting a non combatant. Anyone know the source?
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- Either way, a terrorist can succeed in hijacking simply claiming that he has a bomb on board (it's not important whether it's true or ever possible) or just forcing his way through the airport security (with a gun or by taking hostage, using even something as ridiculous as a fork).
- And of course there's the bit where the air force might shoot down the aircraft or let it crash.
- Either way, a terrorist can succeed in hijacking simply claiming that he has a bomb on board (it's not important whether it's true or ever possible) or just forcing his way through the airport security (with a gun or by taking hostage, using even something as ridiculous as a fork).
I think this was true once, but now that we're all too conscious of the weapon potential of a hijacked airliner, at least in the US, procedures have been changed so that the pilot isn't to turn over the plane no matter what. Does anyone have a source?
My posts make considerably more sense read in the voice of John Ratzenberger.
- In regard to the entry about the Sailor Moon fanfic: out of curiosity, how did it explain Chibi-Usa?
Would like to point out that, at least in my case, the right answer to the prison sadistic choice ("I kick your ass or I fuck it; your choice") was to kick the guy in the dick and bash his head against the wall until guards intervened. Six months in jail and nobody else even looked at me.