Friday, December 09, 2005

Miniature Golf Course a Terror Target?


San Jose's bogeyman

MINIATURE GOLF COURSE MADE HOMELAND SECURITY WATCH LIST

Mercury News

Mini-golfers, calm down and tee up -- Emerald Hills Golfland is off the feds' terrorist-target list.

Or is it?

Some time back, officials added the humble South San Jose theme park -- ``three acres, two mini golf courses, very challenging,'' says Golfland's VP Bob Kenney -- to their National Asset Database. Local officials, figuring plenty of other Silicon Valley sites were richer targets, burst out laughing when they saw it.

The terrorist-watchers at Homeland Security did not return several phone calls. And no one locally seems to know how Golfland got on the list to begin with.