W. T. F.??

[gwywnnydd]

From today's Seattle Times:
"A man who missed his flight out of Sea-Tac on Wednesday afternoon warned a gate agent that there was a bomb on the plane, apparently hoping the delay would get him on board."

WHO does this? Who actually thinks this is a good idea?

Maybe it's because I did a lot of traveling in the UK, where they're a little tense about the IRA and such, but I knew at AGE 8 that you didn't joke about guns, bombs, or things-that-go-boom at the airport. You just DIDN'T. Those nice people checking you in? They don't think that's funny.

Comments

[evillinn.livejournal.com]

Well, and in any climate - post 9/11, IRA, whatever - telling people you had the means to destroy their plane isn't really a way to get yourself invited onto it.

People are bizarre.

I'm having a particularly "people are bizarre" kind of day. I need to hide under my desk until I get to go home.

[airlinepilot.livejournal.com]

If I were on that plane, I'd sue in small claims court for my time. I'd encourage all the other passengers to do so also.

[levin-marks.livejournal.com]

what I don't get... anybody can make something that can take out a plane from what's ON THE PLANE... just as the passengers can stop it from happening.

any pilot with half a gram of guts can roll the plane once and stop anything happening in the back.

This "security stuff" that the us does doesn't do anything.

[gwywnnydd.livejournal.com]

Well, it does do something. It provides the illusion that something is being accomplished.

Keyword= illusion


Tangent: I never did understand, in the blockbuster action movies, there's always a car scene where the hero is being chased by Evil Motorcycle Riding Gangsters who are shooting at him.
And he just tries to get away.

Umm, SWERVE INTO THEM. Not that hard (hundreds of people do it every damn day, by accident), and ends the chase right now.