California Port Shut Down Over Possible Terrorist Threat (Port Hueneme)
PORT HUENEME, Calif. Authorities sealed off a Southern California port Monday afternoon after a possible terrorist threat was found scrawled in a cargo ship's hold, a port official said.
Authorities closed off the Port Of Hueneme in Ventura County after a
dockworker discovered the message scrawled in marker on a metal pillar in the hold of a ship carrying bananas from Guatemala, said Will Berg, the port's marketing director.
Berg said message read: "This nitro is for you Mr. George W. Bush and your Jewish cronies."
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I have an uncle that is a ship's steward out of Port Hueneme. One of his best friends is a banana ship Captain. They fill the hold with nanners, and then pump in NITROGEN to displace the OXYGEN to keep the fruit fresh, and to kill any critters. Some dickwad official doesn't know nitrogen from nitro-methane... and thus we have a terrorist threat!!!
The dockworker that reported this HAD TO KNOW the difference... as unboubtedly he has unloaded many banana boats... but probably wanted his 15 minutes of fame.
Whoever wrote the "joke" was probably referring to the nazi gas chambers... not a nitromethane bomb.
Obviously there was something lost in the translation.
What a woirld we live in.