Shep Smith: Qatar Diplomat Was Smoking A ‘One Hitter’ On Airliner (video)

mediaite.com ^ | April 9, 2010 | Colby Hall

[spokeshave]

"If it was weed, the whole plane would have smelled it. What else could it have been?"

Maybe he was smoking some dried quat

[EBH]

A type of weed-smoking paraphernalia that traditionally refers to pipe that deliberately mimics the shape of a cigarette. In areas of the world where it is illegal to smoke weed, although weed is delicious and good for the high, it is wise to smoke out of a one hitter: if a cop sees you smokin' a one-hitter, he or she will just think it's a ciggey. Haw! You can fool 'em! One hitters are also used by the stingy, frugal, or used to control how much of their stash friends or weed needin' acquaintances get to smoke. This is related to the custom that accompanies smoking a one-hitter: all the weed that is rammed into the pipe is smoked 'to the head' or by the individual, him or herself, who is handed the green tipped ciggie-chameleon. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=one+hitter

[jakerobins]

Was Kumar trying to smoke his bong on the Plane again???

[Man50D]

The reports on this matter change by the day.

[colorado tanker]

Did you see a picture of this guy? He’s real young, probably got the job because of a rich and/or well connected family. He looks like he has a bit of an attitude. I imagine he thought he’d gone to heaven being posted to the U.S. and had no idea he could get in trouble for acting young and stupid.

[posterchild]

An acquaintance from years ago used to transport his bong in his carry on briefcase on flights in the early 1980’s. He worked for the FDIC and eventually went to prison for money laundering.

[colorado tanker]

He was going to Supermax in Florence to visit a prisoner. I think the guy had some connection to the 9-11 terrorists. The fact they sent someone so junior means it was just a routine consular visit, going through the motions.

[Shade_Trees_56]

“If it was weed, the whole plane would have smelled it. What else could it have been?”

Dung? :-) Those dudes are into weird stuff.

[DrC]

“Diplomatic immunity means they cannot search your carryon or checked baggage.”

Which is why a suitcase nuke will arrive in the luggage of an Iranian diplomat.

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

so is going to topless Bars...what phony scumbags these are!

[RichInOC]

Oh Hell no.

This guy is a bona fide idiot.

[MamaDearest]

“Diplomatic immunity means they cannot search your carryon or checked baggage.”

Which is why a suitcase nuke will arrive in the luggage of an Iranian diplomat.

A surefire recipe for a successful terrorist hit sometime in the future. NO ONE should be immune from inspections or prosecution - even world leaders (like Ahmadinejab).

[Squantos]

Silly shoe bombers......

[I cannot think of a name]

“If it was weed, the whole plane would have smelled it. What else could it have been?”

If ANYONE on the plane could have smelled it, they all would have been in trouble. All lavatories in all aircraft are venting some of the pressurized air overboard at all times (this is to make sure that when Broom Hilda takes a nuclear dump the nearest rows don't pass out).

The reason people get caught smoking in lavatories is because the air being vented overboard passes over a smoke detector, which sets off a light in the cockpit.

[rake]

a rolled up towel or something

we used to call it "the goat head."

[Nodems2000]

I’m wondering if his daddy is going to give him ten lashes for shaming the family name! This has got to be utterly humiliating to those with the same name in Qatar. Oh....I forgot, he’s a guy.

[tophat9000]

Ah Ha!...It was a joint mission

[Mr_Moonlight]

Just let the passengers beat the bastards to death and I mean kill the son of a bitch then just go back to your seats and stfu and that is that. Do that a couple of times and that might stop it

The Kid From Brooklyn "Bat Day"

Warning -- STRONG language!

[CAluvdubya]

There’s more to this story....

I completely agree. IIRC, the first reports had the "diplomat" being wrestled to the ground. I haven't heard that since and maybe I got it wrong but it's just one detail that seems to have changed.

[jdub]

we just called it the blow towel