Arrest over bomb joke on plane (Idiot Alert)

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au ^ | 1-16-04 | AFP

[Theo]

You're committing a straw man fallacy. The guy made a threat, a very serious one, indicating that he had tried to bomb the plane, and perhaps the bomb was still on the plane and was about to go off. That's the point of this story, and the reason he's in trouble.

This story has nothing to do with "concentration camps." You can talk about "concentration camps" on a relevant thread, and I might even agree with you about the ridiculous "security" perpetrated in airports. But this thread is about a guy who made a bomb threat in a very ostentatious manner.

[cinFLA]

Please remove the post you falsely attributed to me.

[cinFLA]

Say Heil Hitler to the TSA for me next time they strip search you because you DON'T look like a terrorist.

And you want to airlines to go bankrupt for this?

[eyespysomething]

Call the "Les Chattes Nordique."

[xrp]

No, he's too busy with his MrLeroy fan club to watch mold grow.

[Theo]

Welcome to FR, I guess....

In another post, you wrote:

In 2003, I've been also travelling quite a lot through the world (Africa, East and central Asia) and I've met many australian, new-zealand people and european students who would have a whole sabbatical post university year to discover the world as it is (and not as given on TV and magazines), but sadly only one US citizen… (over 6 months of trip!).

You may be surprised at how many of us on FR are well-travelled. In the past few years I've spent time in Singapore, London, Paris, Germany, Italy, Colombia, and Mexico. While there is some value to seeing "the world" in person rather than through a TV, I've found that being well-travelled can give one an undeserved superiority complex. People are essentially the same wherever you go -- sinful and in need of a Savior; you don't need to go halfway around the world to discover that....

[Theo]

Babelfish translation:

Fantasio Hello! As it is pleasant to hear a friendly voice? It is true that one enough well here (I adore myself réfléxions them kind "eh oh ' media', it is then already a plural not need for '!", I imagine time that it had to pass to find the fault, whereas those of its neighbors to mitigate who speaks amerloque the tous.les.jours are so obvious!)? but they is all the same a little flippant to think that it is these even which are likely to give the small villain who has directed already their country for almost four years of return to the capacity! In any case I will call my potos so that they come to put their salt grain here, they too are poîlant to think that one has a whole team of Sylvestre interactives to the other end of the keyboard only for us!

[Theo]

If you rely on this crap machine to understand the rest of your human brothers ...

I did a babelfish translation to understand what you were saying. (You should know that it's pretty rude to speak in a language that is not spoken by those around you, when you know that language.) I found the mis-translation funny, so I posted it.

As someone who earned a master's degree in Education/ESL, as well as a master's degree in intercultural communication, and who's worked as a software localization/globalization company, I found the way babelfish mis-translated your words to be pretty silly.

Consider my posting of that translation to be a Rorschach test, your response showing that you've got a chip on your shoulder against me, perhaps because I'm American (born in Germany, BTW).

You need to slow down and cut the arrogance, Marco.

[Darksheare]

And he's so far only posted once according to his in forum search.

[netmilsmom]

netmilsmom wrote:
"Wow! THEIR like bees swarming here!!!"

*snicker!* I guess all of us make dumb mistakes, even when we have PhDs!
Oh well, better to consentrate on homeschooling.
Note to self, spell check does not work with homophones.

[hellinahandcart]

This has happened over and over since last summer. Old threads suddenly resurrected by a brand new poster claiming to be the subject of the article (or the relative, neighbor, or "bestest friend" of the subject of the article), and telling us all we were woefully misinformed and had no right to judge him/her, and to stop talking about it (when we already had, months previously in some cases) because of the pain we were causing to the victim and relatives (who apparently have nothing better to do than Google up stories about themselves to read).

A bunch of us who had been through the experience of being pinged to an old thread by a stranger and excoriated for something we'd said months ago, happened to be on a thread where it happened again, and that's when we wised up to the antics and started keeping a list. It is either one very busy troll, or several trolls working in concert. Very often they have eerily similar writing styles.

This happened mostly on sex crime threads in the beginning (how sick is that?), but now it's freaking everywhere. And the lag time on thread resurrection is down to only about a week. So the person's behavior is escalating, and his M.O. has changed slightly. He's having too much fun here.

[Darksheare]

I've seen that happen as well.
On this thread Sky99 got himself zotted, and then about a day or five later some guy posts to my post 19 with some story about how he worked in the port authority, or someone he knew worked in the port authority.
Well, his post 20 got pulled so I'm assuming he got zotted to, don't remember his handle offhand. But he'd had a thread up on the same subject as the zot thread.

[_Jim]

TWA Flight 800 and several other aircraft HAVE been taken out by missiles.

AN assertion without proof.

AN assertion without evidence.

AN assertion based on wild-eyed speculation.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

AN assertion without proof.

AN assertion without evidence.

AN assertion based on wild-eyed speculation.

Right. That's why the Feds put people in prison for writing books about. Because it didn't happen.

[Darksheare]

He believes in magic.
Obviously so, since centwer wing tanks do not miraculously explode and the wires they claimed arced to do that couldn't possibly do so in the manner described to create the miraculous center wing tank explosion.
So it must be magic.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

AN assertion without proof.

AN assertion without evidence.

AN assertion based on wild-eyed speculation.

Go ahead and discount 670 eyewitness.

The FBI and NTSB did. You will be in good company.

The company of government agents with a vested interest in shielding the peasants from embarrassing information.

[_Jim]

Do you know what the BIGGEST 'proof' out there is that contradicts any crazy missile theories - the dozen or so trained eyeballs of pilots out there that OBSERVED this event.

TO DATE, I'll bet you've not read their testimony.

[_Jim]

He believes in magic.

I think we demonstrated before that you're an idiot, so, no further comment.