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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: 2) by canopic jug on Thursday October 14 2021, @08:59AM
So, more than just 50% are below average. My niece tested out at 162, so on her own she can offset a couple of complete idiots and some "average" fools.
More like the converse instead, they do outnumber her. Furthermore, the common theme in all the so-called reality shows is to demonstrate strategies for those that do outnumber the better candidates to gang up on them and tear them down. The general population watches that stuff and takes it to heart and applies it in real life. So mobbing ends up not being specific to her situation but applies to anyone more skilled, stronger, smarter or any combination of those characteristics relative to the general population.
We'll see soon whether the accuser is prosecuted for a bomb hoax and the camera owner gets compensation from fines on both the TSA, the airline, and the hoaxer. My guess is that the above paragraph applies and they'll just treat the camera owner as him having done something wrong anyway.
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