[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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 14 2021, @05:38AM (1 child)
People are really bad at judging "average" though. The negative connotations attached to the word do not lend themselves to objective reasoning about how smart other people really are.
(Score: 2) by ChrisMaple on Friday October 15 2021, @07:18PM
Mediocre also means average, and its connotation is even worse.