Airlines should go after hoaxers, not jokesters
Jul 8, 2010, 7:29 am
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Airlines should go after hoaxers, not jokesters
On a recent flight to New York, Draco Slaughter, 75, was arrested on terrorism-related charges. His crime? He made a bad joke to a flight attendant. Slaughter did not exactly slay his audience. The joke not only resulted in a federal criminal charge but could result in seven years incarceration — the ultimate bomb of a joke.
Across the country, travelers are greeted with signs and announcements at airports warning them not to make jokes about bombs or weapons. It has become commonly known that making such jokes is a federal offense. It isn't. There is no Comic Relief Act that makes joking a violation of the U.S. Code. It is an urban legend intentionally created by threatening arrests and twisting existing laws. Even actual prosecutions are rare. In the meantime, there is not a single case of a terrorist warming up his victims with a lead-in joke.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion...mn08_ST1_N.htm
Across the country, travelers are greeted with signs and announcements at airports warning them not to make jokes about bombs or weapons. It has become commonly known that making such jokes is a federal offense. It isn't. There is no Comic Relief Act that makes joking a violation of the U.S. Code. It is an urban legend intentionally created by threatening arrests and twisting existing laws. Even actual prosecutions are rare. In the meantime, there is not a single case of a terrorist warming up his victims with a lead-in joke.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion...mn08_ST1_N.htm
Jul 8, 2010, 8:52 am
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And think of the children... won't somebody puh-leeze think of the poor, starving children... 
I would agree with another poster... TSA is the ultimate joke. Unfortunately there are those in the audience who believe that TSA's shenanigans actually make us safer.
I would agree with another poster... TSA is the ultimate joke. Unfortunately there are those in the audience who believe that TSA's shenanigans actually make us safer.