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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: 4, Interesting) by canopic jug on Thursday October 14 2021, @05:10AM (9 children)
The idiot who made the claim should be in Federal custody for at least 6 months for "swatting" the camera owner.
Yes, this was my first thought too. The idiot who caused the plane to be diverted because they called in a hoax needs some hefty fines plus some time in custody. They did seriously inconvenience and endanger the life of the camera owner as well as, to a lesser extent, all the other passengers.
I use the word idiot but the person was probably of close to average IQ and I'll go with darkfeline's assessment of the state of education [soylentnews.org] instead. Though rather than cheating the problem is created by depriving the schools of funding combined with a continuous indoctrination of fear. Outside of school there is heavy indoctrination, such as the "see something, say something" campaign. Much more fear indoctrination is through the non-stop fear messages found everywhere, especially through commercial media. Since emotions are what drive sales and fear is one of the more profitable motivating emotions and thus driving most advertisements. Inside of school, there are "active shooter" drills, metal detectors, and other bullshit driving fear. Eventually people get stuck in a perpetual state. On top of that, less and less gets taught due to budget cuts, for more than two generations now the US has been continuously sawing away at the curriculum. Notice the prevalence of the attitude that the schools' budgets must be cut further until they show improvement. "The beatings will continue until morale improves."
There can't be improvement in education without investment in education, and the US has been going in the opposite direction by depriving the schools more and more since around 1980. That's over two generations. On top of that is that the indoctrination is such that most of the denizens no longer operate in a fact based world. That's a problem across all social classes, from Wall Street's LARPers, to red-staters/the resistance, to Facebook useds, and more. It can be that the baseline of common knowledge prerequisite is now insufficient for the general population continue operating and maintaining a republic, but that not only is that a separate topic, the US has not been a republic now for at least 10 years.
Whatever. No matter why the idiot called in the hoax, they need to be prosecuted for calling in a hoax and the camera owner compensated by them for the trouble.
Money is not free speech. Elections should not be auctions.
(Score: 4, Funny) by Runaway1956 on Thursday October 14 2021, @05:28AM (4 children)
Agreed, in principal. But the schools waste so much money, giving them more money obviously won't solve the problem.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 14 2021, @05:42AM
Corruption needs to be dealt with, not just dismissed as waste. That's why the schools suck in the first place!
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 14 2021, @07:06AM (1 child)
That is, in "principle", you illiterate moron! Repeat after me: ruling idea = principle. First person, or main thing =principal. Do you think you can handle the difference the next time you are called upon to do so by some pendantic gramma Nazi? I am just waiting for you to "beg the question". Do you feel "lucky", punk? Go ahead, make my day!
Maybe if we gave Runaway more money, he could learn to spell? Rhetorical question, no need to reply.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 14 2021, @12:03PM
Since we’re talking about schools and their mismanagement, “principal” might be right after all.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Nuke on Thursday October 14 2021, @12:41PM
Says someone who makes spelling mistakes,
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 14 2021, @06:31PM (2 children)
even though the reporter likely deserves contempt, it should be the dumb asses who took the initial report and then made a big fucking deal out of it that get punished. dumb skank flight attendants, and pigs. The higher up the chain the higher the penalty, as they should know more/be better trained. unless the reporter said "he has a bomb", as that would be different
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 14 2021, @06:35PM (1 child)
nevermind. the dumb whore saw the "perp" looking up cameras on the internet and thought they were bomb making instructions. dumb nosey bitch should have told her cuck husband so he could have shut her retarded ass down, if he wasn't such a bitch...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 15 2021, @07:44AM
Makes me glad incels are such pricks you can tell what they are before they finish ten words.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by ChrisMaple on Friday October 15 2021, @07:41PM
There are many ways to improve education without increasing funding.
Don't teach creationism. Don't force prayer; don't teach that God is a real thing. Don't teach critical race theory. Don't use ridiculously biassed history books. Don't teach math using the latest fad. Don't teach youngsters that they can choose their own sex at whim. Don't waste time teaching the latest politically correct BS, learning what's important is already difficult enough.
Don't hire teachers who use their positions to push any political agenda.