DHS spends millions to prevent terrorist version of "Speed"-

[Ichingcarpenter]

So this is the technology marvel DHS helps the nation with rising fuel cost on our public buses




DHS spends millions on bus kill-switches to stop Osama bin Laden from reenacting the movie "Speed"

Bus services across America are spending a fortune on driver-side kill-switches for busses that have been hijacked by terrorists that can stop them or slow them to five miles per hour. This is to stop terrorist from ramming busses into buildings.

So now, I suppose, terrorists will have to content themselves with activating the kill-switch signals to make every bus on every freeway in America slam to a stop all at once, causing massive fatalities and snarling the nation's traffic in a weeks-long, gory jam.

Nice one, movie-plot-fighters!

Private bus companies have received millions of dollars from the Department of Homeland Security for the security systems. It costs $1,500 to equip each bus, with $50-per-bus monthly maintenance costs.


http://www.boingboing.net/2008/06/10/dhs-spends-millions.html

http://www.nypost.com/seven/06082008/news/regionalnews/busting_terror_114567.htm

[galaxy21]

1. So Osama is borrowing from movies now?

I can't wait for him to unleash the killer tomatoes on us!

[Tunkamerica]

5. didn't you hear about the killer tomatoes?

the salmonella outbreak?

[Richard Steele]

2. That's just DHS pursuing its REAL mandate: to funnel our tax dollars to Repub cronies.

$50 a month "maintenance"? I'll bet that one made them
laugh so hard they pissed themselves.

[Ichingcarpenter]

3. Its a criminal racket for sure- my county is busy converting buses to

Natural Gas, which helps the air, the economy and our dependences on foreign oil

[progdonkey]

4. seriously, they're not even trying to hide it...

I wonder if on the invoices it has the word maintenance in big bold quotations marks, with a big ;) next to it.

[RC]

6. I saw this in a movie once, so it has to be true...

A city bus hit a Volkswagen and went air borne and lands on its side. The Volkswagen never twitch, wasn't damaged.

Wouldn't it be cheaper to have Volkswagens placed at strategic places along the bus route for in case a bus got hi-jacked?

Busses already have Kill switches. It's called an ignition switch. They come standard with the bus.