From: danabren	Date: April 27th, 2009 06:41 pm (UTC)		(Link)

Not cool - a thousand shames on whoever approved that!

	From: silverstah	Date: April 27th, 2009 07:42 pm (UTC)		(Link)

This is one of the stupider things I've heard all year. I mean, I *still* get the "OMG, a plane!" feeling - and I wasn't anywhere CLOSE to NYC on that day.

*headdesk*

	From: francesca_la	Date: April 27th, 2009 08:36 pm (UTC)		(Link)

Oh for God's sake - - PHOTOSHOP people. I'm pretty sure the government has the capability. Why waste the time, energy, gas, man power, etc and scare the excrement out of people. Aren't we all talking about a collapsing economy? You just bitched out a bunch of execs about flying in to ask for money BECAUSE IT COSTS SO MUCH TO OPERATE THE JETS.

Yep, insensitive for 9/11 survivors. So doubly idiotic.

	From: lyonessnyc	Date: April 27th, 2009 09:25 pm (UTC)		(Link)
	icon's for the brainiacs who came up with keeping the photo-op secret

I wouldn't have had such a problem if they'd PUBLICIZED the flyover. That's all they had to do.

Jim and I were talking about it in the car on my way to school today, and we're also cheesed that people are freaking about the need to have military jets patrol our airspace. Um, hello? It's necessary. But it does need to be publicized that such patrols are *normal*, and that nothing's wrong when you see that jet -- it's like seeing a police car in your neighborhood. BUT, when it's supersekrit, like this stupid photo-op, it scares people because it wasn't expected.

I heard military jets overhead a couple of weeks ago, and immediately Facebooked it. Within a minute, a friend who was at Citi Field told me that there had been an FA-18 flyover for Opening Day. No big -- it was publicized, and expected, and easily explainable. Cool. But today wasn't. Dumbasses.