What Ever Happened to 'My Tailor is Rich'?
A Japanese man was pulled off an airplane for writing "suicide bomb", but was released when it became apparent that he was actually learning English. "The 60-year-old man told investigators he came across the words in a newspaper and wanted to look up their meaning," a police spokeswoman said.
There you go, English for the 21st century …
(From Drudge Report)
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Shouldn't that be "homicide bomb?"
That was a close call, good work TSA!
I feel so much safer, now.
"I have a gub."
Good thing I don't travel very frequently with my wife's older brother and his kids. TSA would jump all over me the first time I greeted my adorable little nephew Jack.
why?
My suicide bombs explode with delight!
dhex:
"Hi, Jack!"
Parump-pum.
Good thing it wasn't one of the bogus Monty Python translation books; imagine the reaction if he wrote "please fondle my bum."
let's see if we can think from the TSA perspective. if they don't investigate old Japanese men for writing/uttering 'bomb', then they have to go through hell when they act upon a young Arab man who might drop a clue or two.
Otherwise it would be "profiling" and we can't have that no matter what, can we?
it is very difficult for me to believe that ALL of our government employees are THAT STUPID. so sarcasm (from the posters) aside, can people think of any possibly valid reasons why this behaviour occurs?
So explain why his name happens to be Mohammed Zakamura.
"I want to feed your fingers to the wolverines."
Zorel-
As I understand it, being in airport security is a boring, low-paid, armpit of a job. So of course it's not going to attract anybody capable of finding work elsewhere.
who's this man's lawyer?
we got the rosa parks of the 21st century here!
Jennifer,
How have you been 🙂
I was under the impression that the 'fat women' airport security brigade gave way to the new 'professional' federal workers of TSA. Hence my confidence that all of them can't be that stupid.
can people think of any possibly valid reasons why this behaviour occurs?
Because people in general are both stupid AND fearful. There is also likely some measure of the "Teen Curfew" routine, in that the TSA's aggressive enforcements are meant to relax air travellers so that it appears as though the government is actively protecting them (much the same way curfews completely ignore the distribution of adolescent/teen crime vs. time of day). This way, travellers will buy more plane tickets and probably vote republican.
Mother should I build the wall?
He probably had one of those bombs that couldn't be detonated in the time it takes to turn around an land back in O'Hare, but wasn't worth the epic journey to Dayton, where Japanese Islamicists were presumably planning to take out a used car lot and a Cineplex 8.
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