French air passenger jailed in Abu Dhabi for bomb joke

[harvyk]

French air passenger jailed in Abu Dhabi for bomb joke | News.com.au

Whilst I do know that "jokes" about bombs are not acceptible on aircraft, quite honestly if I was going to blow up a plane the first you'll learn that I have a bomb is when I either make it explode or I start making demands.

You wouldn't learn about it from jokes I make with fellow pax...

Just my 2c...

 

[Travel Guru]

I can't say I have much sympathy for anyone who uses the word bomb on an aeroplane these days.

There's been enough publicity for even the most infrequent of traveller to know that it's simply not acceptable, and especially when travelling through the UAE.

Hope it serves as a lesson to both himself and every other joker out there who thinks its funny to make any kind of reference to a bomb on an aircraft.

TG

 

[jamesD]

My view is jokes can create hysteria and individuals & groups of people can do some crazy things while in a hysterical state - can be even worse than the actual threat itself.

JD

 

[NM]

A good reason not to allow telephone calls and emails from aircraft. Just image hearing one side of a conversation of someone talking about the "Bill Of Materials" for a purchase order.

Phone: "Did you finish the design requirements for the widget?"
Pax: "Yes, I've got the BOM here with me now."
Phone: "And the Purchase Order?"
Pax: "Yes, its all set."
Phone: "Great, when can you email it to me?"
Pax: "20 mins after take-off."
Phone: "Are we on track for manufacturing to commence next month?"
Pax: "Yes, everything's ready, the BOM is the last piece and we can execute the plan immediately."

Perhaps its time to find a new acronym for Bill of Materials?

 

[drron]

Though another pax left a package on the seat beside him-not just an out of the blue bomb joke.What would have happened if instead he had gone to FAs and said this other fellow has left a package on the seat during this stopover-could it be a bomb?His fellow pax would have been the one interviewed.
Personally I would have said no you cant.

 

[Lucky_man]

... What would have happened if instead he had gone to FAs and said this other fellow has left a package on the seat during this stopover-could it be a bomb?....
Personally I would have said no you cant.

Couldn't agree more. You would have to use NewSpeak. "Does it represent a security concern". That's fine until "planting a bomb" gets called "left an unattended item" then it will just be better no to speak on a plane.

As for the poor French man, obviously slow off the mark. When asked by the FA he should have said - "No, I said I hope it is not a bong". Worked on Flying High.

 

[jaffa]

I would also hazard a guess,

That this thread itself, by its very content, sentence structure and key words has already been flagged by the NSA automated electronic eavesdroppers, been copied 17 times,
distributed to 6 government security departments for analysis and is subject number 3 on the next agenda for the terrorism and airline inter agency co operation and intelligence distribution meeting to be held at 8pm tonight.

Before briefing the president in his morning AM SIT-REP. :shock:

Even as we speak a team of 30 government computer experts are hacking into our home computers in preparation for morning raids at 4am in the morning, before we are arrested and flown to a secret location with hoods over our heads where we will be kept for the next 7 years without explanation.

We are officially now file no RA 288599438766788 code orange Case Id 174456xtr

And from now on whenever any of us appearing on this thread fly through the USA we will all now carry the infamous "SSSS" on all boarding passes and receive enhanced security....

Only joking

 

[harvyk]

And from now on whenever any of us appearing on this thread fly through the USA we will all now carry the infamous "SSSS" on all boarding passes and receive enhanced security....

Only joking

Damn straight your only joking, you think that after your name has appeared in this thread you'd be allowed to go near a plane which will end up in the US?

[rant]
Some common sense needs to return to airline security. Right now airline security is run by paranoia, a person tries to take something on board which shouldn't be there, so the gov't of the day make it illegal to bring anything on board which could be mistaken for the object.

Liquids is a classic example, and they thing is they where not even successful, they where stopped before they could do anything wrong, and yet the average person now risks having their duty free taken off them if they make a mistake on where they buy it as a result.

The thing that really gets me is that there was technology in the 70's which could scan for explosives unobtrusively, and quite quickly (apparently the machine looks like an x-ray machine), and yet that has not yet been deployed at airports some 30 years later in this "age of terror".

I guess people are worried that unless your being man-handled by security, people won't feel safe...

[/rant]

 

[simongr]

Liquids is a classic example, and they thing is they where not even successful, they where stopped before they could do anything wrong, and yet the average person now risks having their duty free taken off them if they make a mistake on where they buy it as a result.

I guess people are worried that unless your being man-handled by security, people won't feel safe...

[/rant]

I generally agree with you but is Duty Free that big a deal for individuals?

I am more concerned/annoyed about the whole 100ml tubes/bottles and the hassle that presents than duty free.

There are times though that security at airports bemuses me - take India for example. Everyone goes through a WTMD and everyone gets a full body pat down as well... duplication of effort?

 

[Stealth]

I can't say I have much sympathy for anyone who uses the word bomb on an aeroplane these days.

There's been enough publicity for even the most infrequent of traveller to know that it's simply not acceptable, and especially when travelling through the UAE.

Hope it serves as a lesson to both himself and every other joker out there who thinks its funny to make any kind of reference to a bomb on an aircraft.

TG

A parsimonious response if I ever heard one. Hopefully you are better informed than the media that reported it. I'll add that I am a former resident of the UAE.

 

[Travel Guru]

A parsimonious response

You know I have a theory on people who use big words...Big words, small xx_xx :mrgreen::mrgreen:

TG

 

[ColinP]

A parsimonious response if I ever heard one. Hopefully you are better informed than the media that reported it. I'll add that I am a former resident of the UAE.

I suspect that 'sanctimonious' is the word you're looking for .

I hope this post doesn't inspire TG to comment on the size of my............is 'appendage' a big word? :shock:

 

[tuapekastar]

Please stop discombobulating me with big words!

I think the French fellow was a bit stiff to end up in the slammer for that, though a little foolish to have said what he said.

One person I definitely have sympathy for is Alessandro, Brazilian soccer player for the Melbourne Victory a few years ago. In Portuguese, "bom" = "good". This report from the ABC

 

[drewbles]

I suspect that 'sanctimonious' is the word you're looking for .

I hope this post doesn't inspire TG to comment on the size of my............is 'appendage' a big word? :shock:

Not sure if 'appendage' is big, but has anyone ever wondered why 'abbreviation' is such a long word?

 

[Stealth]

Sanctimonious it was indeed, I must have been thinking of my employer when I wrote parsimonious. I'm now thinking about an illiterate tool when I write wanker.