Yeah, I hate it when I run a checkpoint at a nuke plant, hit the gas when I’m asked to stop, crash into a barrier, and then take off running. I mean, it happens to often, it’s now just no big deal.
I especially like it when no one shoots at me to stop me and I am able, in fact, to run away on foot. It’s fun.
Car Crashes at Nuclear Weapons Plant
OAK RIDGE, Tenn…Guards at the Y-12 nuclear weapons plant, a primary storehouse for bomb-grade uranium, said the man “appeared to be impaired in some way” when they stopped him around 5 a.m. at a security checkpoint near a rear entrance, spokesman Bill Wilburn said.
They asked him for identification, but the man hit the gas and drove through the checkpoint, then crashed into security barriers a short distance away, Wilburn said.
“When he hit that, he jumped out of the car and ran away. He left the car there with the engine still running,” Wilburn said. He said the guards told him the car had been hot-wired… Steve Wyatt, spokesman for the National Nuclear Security Administration in Oak Ridge, which oversees the Y-12 plant, downplayed the crash, saying it was “next to nothing.” The plant makes and dismantles uranium parts in nuclear warheads.
He would have been impaired if I had been a guard there – impaired by being repeatedly shot!
Is there anyone who takes any of this seriously?
Tammy/John, I agree completely. However, I have to wonder what their guard protocols are for individuals who refuse to obey and take off towards the plant. Are they to immediately pursue and attempt to disable with required force the vehicle or person? Are they even armed? Or if they are, what guidelines must they follow to draw and fire? From the info provided, it sounds like they aren’t armed or must follow guidelines… “let’s see, Joe, he hit the gas and is speeding towards the plant…what does the manual say we are to do? I think its on page 47, at the bottom of the page…”. I wouldn’t be at all surprised, these days, if that might be the case. Yeah. It’s sad and disgusting. I’d have been squeezing off as many rounds as possible at the driver’s head. Or the gas tank. Or the tires. AT SOMETHING…!
Oh I give up! Tammy it is time for The United States of Tammy. I feel hostage within my own country half the time. This is what we call Homeland Security? UGH
Reminds me of nothing so much as the 1983 bombing of our Marine barracks in Lebanon — nobody had a loaded weapon beyond a handgun, and they weren’t authorized to shoot anyway, short of an outright invasion by a uniformed army at full-division strength. Of course, then somebody would have had to awaken the Commanding Officer (God forbid!) in order to get the ammo out of the locked storage facilities . . .
Once again, let’s just sit idly by, thumbs up our posteriors, while the jihadis (or in this case, the drunk fools driving automobiles) breach our security measures and release who knows how much nuclear material into the atmosphere — wouldn’t be “prudent” to shoot first and ask questions later. Since I live about 10 miles east of Oak Ridge, I have to say I think it would be DAMN prudent to do so.
As Trinity noted: Homeland Security — What Homeland Security?
I agree with all the above.
I will give 2:1 odd the guards were not Jarheads. Had I been Sgt of the Guard there would be folks put on report for not killin the SOB “impaired” or not! There are rules that must – I say *must* – be followed! Millions of American lives are at risk here! No joking matter!
an old exJarhead
When I was there – many moons ago – the made a point of telling you how good security was, so you wouldn’t do something stupid and get shot.
I guess times change.
Security at y-12 should be either air force security, or a bunch of retired air force security dudes in the private sector. It’s probably been outsourced to some low-bidder Dubai firm.