Originally Posted by
clanum
Is it possible he didn't speak English? I'm no teenager, but even I get confused when in a novel situation with someone barking instructions to me in a language I don't speak. If he were just trying to get home to Seoul, or Buenos Aires or something and didn't understand the instructions, maybe he just decided to step out of line and get his bearings before trying to figure out what he was missing.
Just a guess.
This guy was decked out head to toe in Crips colors...I don't think he was a foreigner. And he immediately responded by opening the ticket jacket when the TSA agent asked him for his boarding pass and ID, so I think he understood the language.