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04-08-2010, 04:07 AM
|  | Supporting Member | | Join Date: May 2004 Location: kcmo | | | Man sneaks a smoke--F-16s scrambled
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04-08-2010, 05:03 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Singapore | | | I guess sarcasm doesn't carry well in an airplane.
It's not about the smoke - its about his statement "i was trying to light my shoes on fire".
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04-08-2010, 05:09 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Lakeland, FL | | | Hopefully the asshat will get the bill for all this. I'm sure flying F-16's around for an hour or so costs a few bucks. If I was the Air Marshall, I would have made the guy into a neat package with zip ties so he could be easily carried off the plane, amusing all the passengers that had to put up with his stupidity. |
04-08-2010, 05:22 AM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Bilbao Espaņa | | | So smoking and being funny equals 2 F-16 scort planes... Really? I wonder how severe they would have been if it was a white man...
This screams hysterical racism all over it. |
04-08-2010, 05:25 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Lakeland, FL | | Quote:
Originally Posted by vene-nemesis  So smoking and being funny equals 2 F-16 scort planes... Really? I wonder how severe they would have been if it was a white man...
This screams hysterical racism all over it. | Yes indeed. If the shoe bomber and underwear bomber and the 911 hijackers were white guys, this wouldn't be an issue at all  |
04-08-2010, 05:29 AM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Bilbao Espaņa | | Quote:
Originally Posted by FL Knifemaker Yes indeed. If the shoe bomber and underwear bomber and the 911 hijackers were white guys, this wouldn't be an issue at all | Yes yes yes, a diplomat on a scheluded meeting smoking a fag on first class is totally comprable to those cases  |
04-08-2010, 05:30 AM
|  | User | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: East Coast | | | A former colleague's PDA made a noise on a flight to LA. A flight attendant asked him what the noise was. He said, "Don't worry, it's not a bomb." The plane made an emergency landing in Denver and he was arrested. That's what happens when you joke about explosives on an airplane.
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04-08-2010, 05:33 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Lakeland, FL | | Quote:
Originally Posted by vene-nemesis Yes yes yes, a diplomat on a scheluded meeting smoking a fag on first class is totally comprable to those cases | You said "smoking a fag" 
And it's up to the Air Marshall to make such a call?? I'd prefer they er on the side of arresting/detaining and subduing the stupid asshat. |
04-08-2010, 05:35 AM
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Originally Posted by vene-nemesis So smoking and being funny equals 2 F-16 scort planes... Really? I wonder how severe they would have been if it was a white man...
This screams hysterical racism all over it. |  |
04-08-2010, 05:44 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Waco, TX | | | I've known since I was a child about 25 years ago that you simply do NOT make such jokes ^ on a plane or in an airport.
Regarding the Qatari guy it sounds like the expected reaction considering recent events. I'm glad that marshalls are gettng on top of these types of things. We know for a fact that terrorists are trying to take down planes using small personal bombs. When a dude goes into the bathroom and then smoke is smelled and the guy doesn't cooperate with air marshalls that should absolutely be taken seriously. Paying extra attention when it's a guy from the middle east just makes sense. So far it hasn't been white guys trying to blow up planes. Pull your head out.
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04-08-2010, 06:20 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Ottawa, Ont | | | its almost as if the terrorists have won.
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04-08-2010, 06:22 AM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Lincolnshire, UK | | | What good would a couple of F-16s do anyway, regardless of whether or not he was a terrorist. |
04-08-2010, 06:25 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Lakeland, FL | | Quote:
Originally Posted by TheDarkReaver What good would a couple of F-16s do anyway, regardless of whether or not he was a terrorist. | If the plane starts heading for a populated area or high building, they can take it down. You have to consider that at the point they were called, I doubt anyone knew it was some idiot "smoking a fag" in the bathroom. |
04-08-2010, 06:26 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Fredericksburg, Virginia | | | Stuff like this is why I don't fly on airplanes anymore...
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04-08-2010, 06:32 AM
|  | I'll take you into the water. | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Brisbane QLD Australia | | | When I first read it, all I could think of how completely rediculous it was. The air marshalls could have EASILY been able to tell it was just ciggarette smoke.
Can anyone say overreaction. |
04-08-2010, 06:32 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Lakeland, FL | | The guy was just released with no charges pending   |
04-08-2010, 06:33 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Lakeland, FL | | Quote:
Originally Posted by tom once dead When I first read it, all I could think of how completely rediculous it was. The air marshalls could have EASILY been able to tell it was just ciggarette smoke.
Can anyone say overreaction. | No. |
04-08-2010, 06:34 AM
| | I'll take you into the water. | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Brisbane QLD Australia | | | I know smoking on planes is a federal offence etc... but f-16's? |
04-08-2010, 06:35 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Fredericksburg, Virginia | | Quote:
Originally Posted by tom once dead When I first read it, all I could think of how completely rediculous it was. The air marshalls could have EASILY been able to tell it was just ciggarette smoke.
Can anyone say overreaction. | After what has happened recently? No...you can't NOT overreact with this type of thing.
Like I said, this is why I stay off of airplanes...
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04-08-2010, 06:36 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Lakeland, FL | | Quote:
Originally Posted by tom once dead I know smoking on planes is a federal offence etc... but f-16's? | If terrorists headed the plane at your town, would you prefer NOT to have the F-16's up there??  | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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