JetBlue TrueBlue - Teen shouts "It's time to die!" at BUF

Posted in JetBlue forum because I believe JetBlue is only airline that flies BUF-JFK, so the kid was probably about to hop on B6.


http://www.wstm.com/Global/story.asp?S=4912345

CHEEKTOWAGA, N.Y. He shouted "It's time to die" before ripping off his backpack and reaching inside it at an upstate airport.
Now, a teenager faces disorderly conduct charges after causing a disturbance at Buffalo Niagara International Airport last night.

Authorities say the 16-year-old boy (Alif Chowdhury) from Garden City, Long Island was with his father (Ehsan Chowdhury) waiting outside a terminal prior to their flight to J-F-K Airport.

Passers-by became suspicious of the youth's behavior and alerted airport police. The teen -- who was dressed in a white robe-like garment -- became agitated while officers questioned his father.

Officials say he said he wasn't afraid to die and tried to pull something out of his backpack.

The officers subdued the youth, who was carrying cell phones in the backpack but nothing dangerous.

The teen was taken to a Buffalo hospital for a psychiatric evaluation.

Didn't think they could report the minor's name like that...

Didn't think they could report the minor's name like that...

Silence un-american! This is the War on Terror! The government can do whatever it wants!

/OT


Anyway, the kid is clearly, and sadly, unbalanced in some way.

Not likely, but could it be he was trying to provoke people whom he thought had "started it" by staring at him with suspicion for no reason whatsoever?

Does this go way beyond the kind of stupid things even some normal teenage boys do? In the days before airports and planes became "special places", stupid actions by kids would be taken care of without making the local or national news. Nowadays toss in an airport or a plane and it becomes news.

I've seen far more stupid things decades ago .... including at airports.

Some kids over the past two generations or so have passed through "The Anarchist Cookbook" (and the like) phase and the nation still stands, right? Today, reading something like that at the airport would probably "merit" a tactical SWAT team and be used to excuse a FAM going Rambo (akin to "going postal") there. :eek:

Didn't think they could report the minor's name like that...

It depends on the state, I think. I know in North Carolina, 16 is the age that things switch from juvenile court to real court (district/superior) and records start sticking. And they could report the father's name easily.