{"id":591,"date":"2004-10-25T03:59:30","date_gmt":"2004-10-25T08:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=591"},"modified":"2005-01-14T00:48:25","modified_gmt":"2005-01-14T05:48:25","slug":"a_wing_and_a_pr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/25\/a_wing_and_a_pr\/","title":{"rendered":"A wing and a prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P><STRONG>Delhi&#8217;s canoodling commandos suffer coitus interruptus: <\/STRONG>Oddly enough, several religious shrines sit within high-security zones at Indian airports. Claiming they were visiting a Sufi shrine, two security personnel <A href=\"http:\/\/www.keralanext.com\/news\/?id=58265\">rode a scooter<\/A> into the path of a flight taking off from Delhi in the early morning (via <A href=\"http:\/\/opinion.paifamily.com\/index.php?p=964\">the Acorn<\/A>):<\/P>\n<BLOCKQUOTE>Thursday&#8217;s security breach at the Delhi airport, involving two security personnel who drove a scooter onto a runway as a Royal Jordanian Airlines aircraft with over 200 passengers on board was preparing to taxi along it, has raised eyebrows in intelligence agencies.<\/BLOCKQUOTE>\n<P>The&nbsp;<EM>Times&nbsp;of India<\/EM> <A href=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/articleshow\/895589.cms\">has more<\/A>:<\/P>\n<BLOCKQUOTE style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\">\n<P class=story align=left>Bhat later told the police that he and Kusumlata were going to the Pir Baba shrine located near the cargo building on the other side of the runway&#8230; &#8220;This is a clear case of negligence as the two did not even bother to check whether or not any flight was scheduled for departure&#8230;&#8221;<\/BLOCKQUOTE>\n<P class=story align=left>Since the shrine is only open in the afternoon, and only with a special permit, and the female constable was not assigned to the airport, I&#8217;m guessing that security was <EM>literally<\/EM> screwing around. As the <A href=\"http:\/\/home.madonna.com\/\">queen of tawdry double entendres<\/A> said:<\/P>\n<BLOCKQUOTE style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\">\n<P class=story align=left><EM>In the midnight hour<BR>I can feel your power<BR>Just like a prayer<BR>I&#8217;m going to take you there<\/EM><\/BLOCKQUOTE>\n<P class=story align=left>Sexual repression, religious oddities, slipshod security and <A href=\"http:\/\/www.bajajusa.com\/\">Bajajs<\/A>: only in India.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delhi&#8217;s canoodling commandos suffer coitus interruptus: Oddly enough, several religious shrines sit within high-security zones at Indian airports. Claiming they were visiting a Sufi shrine, two security personnel rode a scooter into the path of a flight taking off from &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/25\/a_wing_and_a_pr\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}