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[2021-10-13 20:46:32 UTC; Update: Corrected story link.--martyb]
I feel sorry for the accused.
The “security incident” that forced a New-York bound flight to make an emergency landing at LaGuardia Airport on Saturday turned out to be a misunderstanding — after an airline passenger mistook another traveler’s camera for a bomb, sources said Sunday.
American Airlines Flight 4817 from Indianapolis — operated by Republic Airways — made an emergency landing at LaGuardia just after 3 p.m., and authorities took a suspicious passenger into custody for several hours.
It turns out the would-be “bomber” was just a vintage camera aficionado and the woman who reported him made a mistake, sources said.
Why in the world was the passenger in custody for “several hours”? They didn’t do anything wrong.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Immerman on Wednesday October 13 2021, @10:50PM (2 children)
Doesn't matter - I'm sure the guy would be happy to (and did) tell them "its a vintage model XYZ camera", which could be confirmed with 10 seconds on Google.
At which point they've established that the *only* reason to suspect it was a bomb in the first place was completely baseless, and thus have no further reason to suspect it actually is one. Maybe it still is - but that's true of literally everything carried by every person on the plane, and even the idiot shoe-bomber wannabe was smart enough to disguise his bomb as something that wouldn't draw attention.
If they want to be *really* thorough, have the guy, who to reiterate they no longer have *any* reason to suspect is actually a bomber, open it up himself in a bomb-safe location (usually plenty of fields around an airport), while they watch by video.
There's no good reason to have detained the man for any longer than it took to top off the fuel tanks to get him and the rest of the passengers back on their way. At best everything beyond that was a performance.
Paranoid and/or malicious accusations are only becoming more common, and police need to learn to recognize them for what they are and treat them accordingly.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Coligny on Thursday October 14 2021, @02:34AM
Karens have power…
Bit with low IQ “Better safe than sorry…” is taking a pounding…
If I wanted to be moderated by mor0nic groupthinking retards I would still be on Digg and Reddshit.
(Score: 2) by Username on Thursday October 14 2021, @08:11AM
Yeah, doesn't make sense. Even if it was a bomb, why would they let him hold it? Why would they keep it near all the people? Why didn't they take all the cameras near them if cameras are bombs? Why didn't they subject all the people holding cameras to this search? These questions only makes sense if they thought it was harmless.
and we don't even have the right to face our accusers anymore. I bet that woman had a purely political grievance against that guy. If they just asked the guy, "would this antifa woman do this because you had a maga hat?" Can flip this antifa-maga any way you like.