Why would YOU embed wires in your cheese?

[Fridays Child]

Why would anyone embed wires in cheese and take it on a plane? I'm thinking that IF it really happened the way the media are reporting it, the whole thing was just a really stupid and bad joke. But, regardless of the reason it was done, I'm not feeling threatened by it. Are you?

[MissB]

1. Depends. Was it Velveeta?

:scared:

[Hepburn]

15. LMBO.......

......:rofl:

[babylonsister]

2. No, but I want to know who tried that, what their excuse was, and where

they are now. Just out of curiosity...or maybe to find out if this story is really true to begin with.

[bdamomma]

3. just like duct tape.

[AndyA]

4. Well, there are those wire things that people use to cut cheese slices with.

Of course, those are mounted on a handle.

I really can't think of a legitimate reason for burying wires in cheese, though. Possibly someone trying to be too cute for their own good? :shrug:

[dkofos]

5. Makes it easy to melt when you plug it in.

[radfringe]

6. chinese cheese - they'll put anything into everything .. ;)

[Fridays Child]

37. I bit down on a piece of wire in a Hardee's hamburger once.

Happened in 1979 or thereabout. I wonder if it was an early terrorist dry run. :bounce:

[MNDemNY]

7. Fine cheddars can be inhanced by

the insertion of copper wires, and the injection of low voltage power....Dah,..everyone knows that.

[dorkulon]

8. Link?

[MNDemNY]

21. To the cheese?

[dorkulon]

22. Thanks for being so helpful.

:eyes:

[MNDemNY]

28. No prob, enjoy the cheese.

[Fridays Child]

35. Sorry. It was being discussed on MSNBC, a little while ago.

But here's a link to the news that preceded the discussion:

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/hp/front/4996699.html

• Milwaukee, June 4. A U.S. person's carry-on baggage contained wire coil wrapped around a possible initiator, an electrical switch, batteries, three tubes and two blocks of cheese. The bulletin said block cheese has a consistency similar to some explosives.

Note that the article says nothing about actually finding wire embedded in cheese. Apparently, the story has now been "modified"--as if the facts weren't strange enough.

[C_U_L8R]

9. Sounds like a stink bomb

if it was in fact stinky cheese

[mmonk]

10. .

[Sparkly]

11. I thought it was a phone charger, sort of next to the cheese.

:shrug:

I heard a talking head finally admit today that there is no evidence any of these people have any connections to terrorism.

[Captain Hilts]

12. I guess they never watched "I Love Lucy" with the cheese on the flight from Europe. nt

[TwilightGardener]

13. I like cheese. Wire's useful. But wire INSIDE cheese?

I think you know what I'm getting at...dairy bomb.

[Eurobabe]

14. Maybe it was Chinese cheese?

That has everything but the kitchen sink in it.

[BlooInBloo]

16. mmmm.... wirecheese.....

[ProdigalJunkMail]

17. do you really not get it? n/t

[dysfunctional press]

18. maybe he was on his way to be on "american inventor" on abc...

and if they wouldn't have stopped him at the airport, we could have found out 'why' the wires were in the cheese.

[kenny blankenship]

19. To bring it back to life of course, but first you must implant it with a recently deceased brain

Airplanes are often struck by lightning while in flight. The revivification process requires instantaneously high voltages as well as high amperage, and the body of an airplane is conductive. Taking a wired up cheese, prepped with a brain for vivification, onboard a commercial flight is just good science and economy. It does not have to be a human brain. The brain of a dog or a Republican will work as well; but some choices, for example the brain of a mouse, lead to problems of longterm viability.

[Ian David]

20. And STILL nobody is talking about Charles Alfred Dreyling, jr. Go ahead. Google him. n/t

[Zodiak]

24. From an article re: Dreyling

Man Arrested at Will Rogers World Airport Released on Bail


KENDAL KELLY
Associated Press Writer


Chuck and Vicki Dreyling leave the Federal Courthouse in Oklahoma City. The Dreylings are the parents of Charles Alfred Dreyling Jr.
AP Photo


Former Oklahoma City Mayor Kirk Humphreys speaks in Oklahoma City, on behalf of the family of Charles Alfred Dreyling Jr.
AP Photo


OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- A University of Oklahoma student was released on $10,000 bail Thursday after appearing in federal court to be formally accused of a felony for allegedly bringing a small explosive device into Will Rogers World Airport.

Federal agents arrested Charles Alfred Dreyling Jr., 24, on Wednesday at a security checkpoint after a Transportation Security Administration employee noticed something suspicious in his carryon luggage as it went through an X-ray machine about 9:30 a.m., FBI spokesman Gary Johnson said.

The device was described in an FBI affidavit as a carbon dioxide cartridge filled with gunpowder that could be detonated when connected to a power source such as the batteries Dreyling had in his electric razor and in his cell phone, which were also in his carryon bag.


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So basically, we are not hearing about this guy. We are hearing about cheese.

Something givesme the feeling that if this kid was "un-white", he would be in GITMO by now with his face plastered all over the news.

A very interesting observation, IanDB. I didn;t know about this until you mentioned it.

[blogslut]

23. To scare the crap out of people

And get my pitcher on da teevee?

[DemBones DemBones]

25. To cut the cheese?

:evilgrin:

[Fridays Child]

29. Wait!

It was probably just one of those wire cheese cutters embedded in a block of cheese and it's being spun as something sinister.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

26. do the scanners detect the real thing?

I hope so

[trashcanistanista]

27. Because it was a typo, it was

actually the wine embedded in the cheese, so you won't have to give up your wine bottle to security when you board the plane.

[KansDem]

30. Maybe the cheese was for eating and the wire for heavy-duty flossing...

Ever had cheese stuck between your teeth?...yuck!

[spanone]

31. i like wired cheese....best ever

[Canuckistanian]

32. They hate us for our cheese

And also pimento loaf.

[KansDem]

33. Meet "Wires"

Hi, I'm Wires, and I'm embedded in this cheese!

[Fridays Child]

36. Awww!

Sweet!

[blakeywakey]

34. Sounds..

Sounds like a bad joke gone wrong!