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Shouldn't have used the T-word.
by evan_ 14y ago
Shouldn't have used the T-word.
- guruz 14y agoOr live in Paranoidistan, aka USA.
- jrockway 14y agoThere are 30,000 flights a day in the US with an average of 100 passengers each. This happening to one blogger is not exactly a pattern of paranoia. It was simply two people making a bad customer service decision.
- guruz 14y agoI would agree with you, it could have been that. It's just that for me as an European seemingly all crazy stories like "X tazed by cop for doing nothing at all" or "Y put into jail for having her small children play naked in the garden" come from the US.
- jrockway 14y agoAccording to [1], there are 500,000,000 English speakers on the Internet. There are 300,000,000 English speakers in the US. It stands to reason that most everything you read about in English on the Internet took place in the US. It's just a really really big country. [1] http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats7.htm http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats7.htm
- guruz 14y agoI also get my information in German from an Offline newspaper or the German websites. Or to back my claims up, let's take some per-capita numbers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Incarceration_rates_worldwide.gif http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Incarceration_rates_worldw... Sorry if this comes across as arrogant.
- jchavannes 14y agoWas going to say the same thing. This seems more like the reason, and it would make sense why they would not claim this was the reason as well, since they don't want the word mentioned again among other passengers.
- Dylan16807 14y agoUsing the wrong word is an even more disgusting reason to throw someone off.
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- avel 14y ago"Hey guys, come on, don't throw me out. It's not like I said that I have a bomb!"
- Stratoscope 14y agoOr for us old-timers: "I got the bomb box on my Mac. Yeah, it crashed." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bomb_(symbol)#Mac_OS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bomb_(symbol)#Mac_OS
- LatvjuAvs 14y agoWhat would be reason not to discuss something that whole nation is scared shitless? No talk policy will make everything go away. This is beyond understanding for me, how can a word ban someone from flight. In ol' days when you could smoke and drink and have a nice discussion about shit in world... while in airplane.
- GFischer 14y agoA well publicized case here in Uruguay was when someone was asked to throw away a pen, and he said "it's not as if this pen is a bomb", so he was refused entry into the U.S. People still travel to the U.S., but it's very likely costing the country a lot of tourist dollars - not that the U.S. cares, they have enough tourists as is.