Know when to "say when".
Posted on 01/18/2004 8:28:59 AM PST by OXENinFLA
Arrest over bomb joke on plane
From correspondents in New York January 17, 2004
A HOLIDAYING French student was in a New York jail here awaiting a court appearance following his arrest over an aircraft bomb "joke".
He left the plane at New York's Kennedy Airport after allegedly joking that he had put a bomb in the plane's toilet, court sources said.
Frank Moulet, 27, was in custody in a floating detention centre called "The Boat" in Long Island Sound off the borough of The Bronx pending charges of making a "false scare".
His girlfriend, arrested with him after they arrived on an American Airlines flight from Santo Domingo, was put on another plane and sent back to France.
Police were called to the plane after a cabin attendant reported that Moulet raised his fist in the air as the plane was landing and shouted, "Oh sh*t, I guess the bomb I planted in the toilet didn't go off".
He faces up to four years in prison on the charge.
US immigration officials have said they are also interested in questioning him.
Your ignorance is showing.
A conspiracy involves two or more people.
I made three 1000-mile plus car trips last year rather than subject myself to airport thuggery.
Explain to me how that is a conspiracy?
How would something like that stop another Bojinka plot?
Osama doesn't give a flying F^%$ about airlines.
He wants to end the American way of life, which is freedom.
So you see, you actually have more in common with Osama.
In case you didn't notice, IT FAILED!!!
I just said that I DON'T FLY.
Are you deaf, or just plain stupid?
The only reason the airlines are making it is because the Pentagon is sending all the soldiers to Iraq on commercial flights.
A hidden airline subsidy.
Once the war in Iraq is over (and it will be soon because Bush wants to remove it as a reelection issue) the airlines are going to start feeling the pinch.
When a government makes a serious crime out of just being immature and stupid, that is a problem. We are indeed loosing more freedom all the time.
LOL! I participated in the construction of that jail at Avondale Shipyards in New Orleans.
I wondered if it was still around?
"Thuggery" my butt. Methinks you don't know what thuggery is. I just flew from one corner of the country to the other yesterday in a little over 6 hours. The security and airline personnel were helpful and alert and the trip was a breeze. Walking through security is easy.... It is only dealing with butt-head people who find anything and everything intolerable that makes it hard.
All that was necessary was to put impenetrable doors on cockpits.
I'm not even sure that would stop the next Richard Reid. Reids mistake was to light his shoe in front of passengers. Had he walked to the bathroom and lighted them there in privacy, it would have been a different story.
Unless the pilot is a bad guy.
I've had similar experiences. Of course, I've also had a male screener force my wife to unbutton and unzip her jeans because the jack*** couldn't figure out metal buttons might set off the wand detector. One experience like the latter, and you too might be determined to avoid demeaning minimum wage bureaucrats if at all possible.
Let me get this straight; you feel that he was acting "like a normal human being" considering the tone of the times?
While I tend to agree that passesnger like myself will willingly put themselves in the front line and defend the aircraft we travel on, the rest of the passengers, and the innocent folks on the ground, it is reassuring that the opportunity for a knife weilding manic or bomber never makes it onto the plane in the first place....
I flew out of Phoenix on Tuesday... they had set up a second layer of security at skyharbor airport (it was an international flight) where they patted everyone down and searched their handluggage on the airbridge into the aircraft. They found a small knife on one of my fellow passengers. He had made it thru the regular security (Xrays, metal detecters etc) and it was only during the additional shoes off, coat and bag search that they found this knife on him. So, does increased security work? Yes, I believe in this case, the system did, and this example is applicable to the bojinka jihadis and shoebombers out there too.
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