Posted on 01/03/2011 8:52:29 PM PST by nickcarraway
Passengers claimed man had suspicious package in the overhead compartment
A Florida professor was arrested and removed from a plane Monday after his fellow passengers alerted crew members they thought he had a suspicious package in the overhead compartment.
That "suspicious package" turned out to be keys, a bagel with cream cheese and a hat.
Ognjen Milatovic, 35, was flying from Boston to Washington D.C. on US Airways when he was escorted off the plane for disorderly conduct following the incident. Monday's incident is another example of other passengers essentially becoming the authority on terrorist activity on planes.
Recently, passenger complaints have resulted authorities taking action against innocent passengers who went to the bathroom too often on a flight and who were just being annoying. In the hyper-sensitive world of flying, sneezing too often could get you kicked off a flight and questioned by the FBI. Milatovic, who is a mathematics and statistics professor at the University of North Florida, was minding his business when other passengers turned into super sleuths. Passengers reported hearing strange noises coming from a plastic bag. State police said later that the bag contained a set of keys,
a bagel with cream cheese, some other small food items, a hat and a wallet.
When confronted by the US Airways crew about his "suspicious package," Milatovic got on his cell phone. The crew asked him to hang it up and sit down. When he refused, he was cuffed.
Milatovic was also charged with interfering with the operation of an aircraft.
So the plane should’ve just waited on the tarmac for him to finish his phone call? Do we have to wait for every pantywaist passenger to get off the phone, or can the airline actually schedule their planes for certain hours of the day?
Followed up by a Bagel Summit at the WH?
The first thing you posted on this thread was this article doesn’t give enough details. Then you proceeded to promptly forget that fact. I’m not really sure how it played out. But neither are you. Who was responsible for getting the stat police on the plane?
A bagel-sniffing beagle Boggles my mind. Who sniffs the lox?
I will eat the evidence, if that helps your legal troubles...
You claimed state police weren’t involved.
Yeah, I was falsely accosted for shoplifting once, and ended up in an altercation with the store detective. The point being that I never would have imagined myself acting as I did, but I was outraged. Luckily, nothing came of it.
If you search this guy’s name you can get his course list, and professor ratings from students, which are largely complimentary. Also, he was the student of a celebrated Russian mathematician, getting his degree in 2002. I pictured him as some kind of dumpy old guy, but Google scares up a picture of him and he appears young and thin, if not exactly handsome.
He would appear to be a total math head, minding his own business, and I’m sure he never knew what hit him.
So you think the hysteria by the other passengers and the wait for security to show up didn't leave them sitting on the tarmac? All of your remarks are those of a deranged leftist. This guy did nothing wrong, other than not to submit to a bunch of jack booted thugs posing as security and passengers.
This is the kind of crap you get when people like Napolitano(sp?)tell people to be on the look out for suspicious behavior. We have paranoia running wild and innocent citizens being thrown off planes.
It's alright with you of course because giving up your civil rights, and those of others, is just A-Ok with you as long as your flight gets there on time, right?
According to Boston Globe: "Milatovic, who had been visiting family in Hudson, allegedly would not comply with a flight attendant’s instructions, refusing to take his seat and refusing to place his carry-on luggage into the overhead compartment.... Another passenger also reported that Milatovic made a furtive movement and a quick phone call, stating, 'I have boarded.'"
So he was arrested for suspicious behavior, not for having a bagel.
A Loxa Apso, naturally.
Just think...somebody, somewhere actually sat down one day and was “inspired” to paint that.
I question the use of the word, “inspired.”
‘Bagel O’ Death’
It depends on if he was from New York and actually ‘sliced’ the Bagel. The question could be wether or not he paid the Bagel slicing tax. Untaxed sliced Bagels are dangerous
Look—it is a violation of national security to have edible food aboard an airliner. Didn’t this guy know that?
;-)
Is that Ham Head or More Ham Head?
If you see something, say something
Actually no. All these regulations about "electronics" are about controlling sheeple. I am annoyed by folks on cell phones, but the idea that they are some sort of threat to aviation is absurd. Even more absurd is the idea that my computer, mp3 player, conventional radio receiver, etc. are some sort of threat. It's a wonder that they don't make everyone take the batteries out of their watches.
ML/NJ
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