Last week, folk singer and aviation enthusiast Vance Gilbert thought he’d pass the time on his United Airlines flight from Boston to Washington, DC, by perusing some books about old aircraft. This was apparently enough to set off alarm bells among the flight crew, who had the plane return to the gate where Gilbert was met by the authorities.
It’s good to know that books about old airplanes are as dangerous as 3.4 ounces of toothpaste.
Shit, I hate to think what would happen if they saw me browsing my own Tumblr…
I once sat on a 737 reading a report detailing a(n incredibly spectacular) loss of a 737.
Shit, I hate to think what would happen if they saw me browsing my own Tumblr…
This is absurd. The level of paranoia by flight crew, the obvious profiling, the complete lack of apology or...
OMG AMERICA WOULD YOU STOP FREAKING THE FUCK OUT! YOU’RE MORE LIKELY TO WIN THE LOTTERY WHILE BEING STRUCK BY LIGHTENING...
I could, very easily, take down an airplane with 5-6 of those 3.4 oz containers. Security theatre at its finest.
Good god. What the hell has happened to us? We’ve become a nation of pussies…
Now I’m glad I didn’t get caught that time I wrote a paper about plane crashes while flying overseas.
Fuuuuuuuuuuu—-
This is appalling.
At least no-one went to jail that day. This kind of thing has got to stop. It’s worth reading the whole story.
Yeah, man, that toothpaste is really gonna cause some PROBLEMS.
Instances like this make Osama bin Laden proud of himself. He has succeeded. Good job, America, good job.
Now, I wonder, is this because he is interested in old aircraft that he was singled out, or that he was a black man...
Wow. Wow.
It’s even better to know that United apparently doesn’t give a FUCK about this radical, upstart ‘Passenger Bill of...
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