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Airline Passenger Mistakes Vintage Camera for a Bomb

posted by martyb on Wednesday October 13 2021, @08:11PM   

[2021-10-13 20:46:32 UTC; Update: Corrected story link.--martyb]

owl writes:

I feel sorry for the accused.

Bomb scare that led to emergency landing at LaGuardia Airport was just passenger adjusting camera: sources:

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.

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• Re:false report, but not charged Re:false report, but not charged (Score: -1, Troll) by aristarchus on Thursday October 14 2021, @07:00AM (2 children)

  by aristarchus (2645) on Thursday October 14 2021, @07:00AM (#1186905) Journal

  A false statement is a false statement.

  Whoa! A Runaway confession? Can't wait for what follows!

  You could argue that all false statements are made out of stupidity, but false remains false.

  Yes, we do. Runaway statements are make out of stupidity, and ignorance, but remain false. The only question remaining, is it intentional? Or is he really that stupid? I tend toward the latter, from long experience.

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• Re:false report, but not charged Re:false report, but not charged (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday October 14 2021, @07:53AM (1 child)

  by Runaway1956 (2926) on Thursday October 14 2021, @07:53AM (#1186914) Journal

  You're on a roll tonight aristarchus. Or, should I address you as Nazi Grammama? Or runaway1959? Please, make up your mind(s). Your split personalities are tiresome. I understand that you can get professional help to sort them all out.

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  • Re:false report, but not charged (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 14 2021, @10:45PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 14 2021, @10:45PM (#1187141)

    I recall you saying the 2020 election was stolen, what was that about criminal stupidity? Your sock puppets can not save you now!

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