Originally Posted by
Boggie Dog
If people are removed from a flight because of a complaint one of those being removed should be the person lodging the complaint.
.... so that they can both be re-booked onto the same flight when it's revealed that the accused was not a threat? Yeah, that won't be a problem at all.
Don't get me wrong; I don't like this at all. But as long as our culture promotes notions like "if you see something, say something", we're going to get idiotic incidents like this.
Or,
as Bruce Schneier put it: "If you ask amateurs to act as front-line security personnel, you shouldn't be surprised when you get amateur security."
I wish I had a better answer. (Heck, I wish I had
any answer.)