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[charliesmum]

Okay, is this simple precaution or raging paranoia? Suspicious note diverts flight

About 40 minutes into the flight, a note saying, "Bomb, bomb, bomb ... meet the parents," was found on a crumpled napkin with a wad of chewing gum in it.

I suppose in today's world it is better to be safe than blown into itty bits, but really...it was a napkin, shoved behind the tray table. With gum in it. Not exactly the last word in scary.

Comments

[zelle999.livejournal.com]

Gawwwwwwwwwwd.

Norm: I got a plane full of people saying you threatened that stewardess.
Greg Focker: I was not threatening her. I was just trying to get my bag into the overhead storage thing...
Norm: You were acting like a maniac and you threatened her with a bomb.
Greg Focker: No, I said I didn't have a bomb.
Norm: But you said bomb.
Greg Focker: I said, "It's not like I have a bomb".
Norm: You said "Bomb" on an airplane.
Greg Focker: What's wrong with saying 'Bomb' on an airplane?
Norm: You can't say 'Bomb' on an airplane!
Greg Focker: Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb. You gonna arrest me? Bomb bomb bomb bomb! During the war I was a BOMBadier

[charliesmum.livejournal.com]

See. Now I never saw that movie, but it sounds to me like the person who wrote on the napkin was probably joking about the movie. Probably to the person he was travelling with. Then spit his gum in it and forgot about it.

Oy. And Vey.

[zelle999.livejournal.com]

I'm sure he was talking about the movie and maybe he was joking about that incredibly funny scene, and didn't want to actually say it out loud, so he wouldn't freak out the other passengers.

Plus, I would never expect someone to uncrumble my used napkin with GUM IN IT and read the BS I wrote on it. Who does that?

[charliesmum.livejournal.com]

You know, that's a good point. Why'd the woman open the napkin? If I saw a crumbled up napkin I'd assume it was trash and either remember to give it to the stewardress when she walks past or, more likely, stuff it in the magazine holder thing.

(and then they'd think I was the mad bomber and i'd get arrested)

[jessii-6.livejournal.com]

omg. paranoia indeed

[wolfma.livejournal.com]

Add saying the word "Bomb" to uttering a short greeting to your friend Jack on the List of Things Never to Say at an Airport/On an Airplane.

[zakkati.livejournal.com]

It's going to get a whole lot worse, I think!

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