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Never mind that the passenger in question attended University College London: He speaks English. And if acting nervous on a plane is reason enough to move a pe
by jcl 17y ago
Never mind that the passenger in question attended University College London: He speaks English.
And if acting nervous on a plane is reason enough to move a person to the back of the plane to conduct a full-body search... well, let's just say the airlines had better have a significant rubber-glove budget.
- jrockway 17y agoNo, they just reuse the rubber gloves. The security people at LHR doing the body pat-downs are a great example. I watched one sneeze all over his gloves, and then immediately pat someone down. Mmmm, body fluids...
- jcl 17y ago...On further consideration, I can't think of any prominent airline terrorists of recent years who have not spoken English. The shoe bomber and the liquid bomb plot were British, and the 9/11 guys trained at flight schools in the U.S. midwest. So, if history is any measure, a total inability to speak English is actually a great indicator that someone is not a terrorist. If the author's proposed system worked exactly as his example goes, it would not only have failed to catch any past terrorists, but it would add huge amounts of false positives due to the large number of similar-thinking people finding a lack of English suspicious.
- maxklein 17y agoDo you guys even know what the spoken language of Nigeria is? It's english.