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Airline Passenger Mistakes Vintage Camera for a Bomb

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

[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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  • (Score: 2) by Oakenshield on Thursday October 14 2021, @04:15PM (4 children)

    by Oakenshield (4900) on Thursday October 14 2021, @04:15PM (#1187008)

    A trip to the grocery store (the great equalizer, since we all need to eat) seems to indicate that the larger bulk of the distribution is on the below 100 end.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 14 2021, @04:46PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 14 2021, @04:46PM (#1187016)

    High-IQ aren't necessarily disciplined, thoughtful, or more self-aware than others. They're just better at IQ tests.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 14 2021, @06:27PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 14 2021, @06:27PM (#1187067)

      "disciplined, thoughtful, or more self-aware "

      Nobody said anything about that. They are seriously retarded. That was the point.

  • (Score: 2) by mcgrew on Thursday October 14 2021, @06:30PM (1 child)

    by mcgrew (701) <publish@mcgrewbooks.com> on Thursday October 14 2021, @06:30PM (#1187069) Homepage Journal

    Grocery store? To ANYWHERE! Watch how people drive, 9 out of 10 don't take their foot off the accelerator when the light ahead turns red, wasting their brake lining and gasoline without actually getting where they're going any faster. Over 90% of accidents are "driver error". People are so stupid that they fear self-driving cars, I fear the cars morons drive.

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    • (Score: 2) by Oakenshield on Monday October 18 2021, @01:33PM

      by Oakenshield (4900) on Monday October 18 2021, @01:33PM (#1187976)

      Truly, anywhere will do. I just figured that we all have to eat. I could have said WalMart but that seems self selective for the extremes.