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Arrest over bomb joke on plane (Idiot Alert)
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au ^ | 1-16-04 | AFP

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.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Political Humor/Cartoons; Unclassified
KEYWORDS: aa; airlinesecurity; bomb; eurotwits; french; jfkairport; joke; notfunny
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To: Cobra64
This general and frequent display of idiocy is why I retired, and no longer fly. (I was a consultant and averaged over 150,000 miles a year since 1990).

Kicking sandals off is too much trouble for you to bear? Something tells me that much of life is a unbearable irritant for you.

When I traveled this week twice across the country, there were no such incidences of silliness, most people were still taking their shoes off to expedite getting through, though security was not really even asking them to remove sneakers any more. Maybe it is silly to think they could find explosives in little sandals. But silly does not equal oppression.

61 posted on 01/18/2004 9:52:56 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
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To: OldPossum
Nevertheless, those made in jest--though this is a stupid thing to do--shouldn't warrant four years in the pen, maybe some time or just a heavy fine but not substantial jail time.

Thank you for sharing. I feel four years is way too lenient. Stupidity should be a crime, heavy duty stupidity warrants heavy duty jail time. There. I've shared my equally valid opinion.

62 posted on 01/18/2004 9:53:38 AM PST by Publius6961 (40% of Californians are as dumb as a sack of rocks.)
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To: af_vet_1981; USF
USF - exactly.

USF; af_vet_1981 - Remember he does not fly! Leave it to us "automatons and totalitarians" to witness how security actually works.
63 posted on 01/18/2004 9:56:00 AM PST by Proud Infidel
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To: NittanyLion
I was pointing out the ideological source of someone's idiotic responses, in case anyone was curious as to what drives a person to such kookiness.
64 posted on 01/18/2004 9:56:35 AM PST by Cultural Jihad
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To: Semper
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.

I have been promoting stupidity as a serious crime for at least a generation. You got a problem with that? Feeling persecuted? What?

That these "immature" and "stupid" people are sought out to vote is perhaps the biggest crime of all, committed by our "government".

65 posted on 01/18/2004 9:56:56 AM PST by Publius6961 (40% of Californians are as dumb as a sack of rocks.)
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To: NittanyLion
Would a 25-year old white female be carrying one unseen on her 110-pounds frame? Highly unlikely. Is that an appropriate use of time/resources?

Don't know. Wouldn't be considered inappropriate the first time a terrorist decided to become blonde. Or enlist one. Certainly you wouldn't have us only look at turban-wearing bearded guys with neon signs over their heads flashing "Terrorist".

66 posted on 01/18/2004 9:57:02 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
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To: Cultural Jihad
No. You were, as usual, continuing your bizarre obsession with everything libertarian. This thread is about airline security - not libertarianism.

If you're interested in discussing the LP, go find a thread about that subject or start one yourself.

67 posted on 01/18/2004 9:58:28 AM PST by NittanyLion (E-A-G-L-E-S - Eagles!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
That's why human beings should never, ever, ever, ever, ever fly.

Not to worry. This guy was French...

68 posted on 01/18/2004 9:59:09 AM PST by Junior (Some people follow their dreams. Others hunt theirs down and beat them mercilessly into submission)
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To: USF
Not the smartest peanut corn kernel in the turd...

OK, *yech!!*

69 posted on 01/18/2004 9:59:19 AM PST by freedumb2003 (Okay, who stole their tin foil hats? I demand they return them!)
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To: HairOfTheDog
Kicking sandals off is too much trouble for you to bear? Something tells me that much of life is a unbearable irritant for you. When I traveled this week twice across the country, there were no such incidences of silliness, most people were still taking their shoes off to expedite getting through, though security was not really even asking them to remove sneakers any more. Maybe it is silly to think they could find explosives in little sandals. But silly does not equal oppression.

It's my choice bozo. If the screeners wanted to stick a sigmoidiscope up your butt, you'd bend over as soon as the KY came into view.

70 posted on 01/18/2004 10:00:14 AM PST by Cobra64 (Babes should wear Bullet Bras - www.BulletBras.net)
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To: HairOfTheDog
Don't know. Wouldn't be considered inappropriate the first time a terrorist decided to become blonde. Or enlist one. Certainly you wouldn't have us only look at turban-wearing bearded guys with neon signs over their heads flashing "Terrorist".

I'm not suggesting I have the answer to that question either. What I am suggesting is that such behavior on the part of screeners has logical consequences. Those include providing an incentive for people to utilize other modes of transport. I can hardly fault them for that, as some on this thread seem wont to do.

71 posted on 01/18/2004 10:00:43 AM PST by NittanyLion (E-A-G-L-E-S - Eagles!)
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To: Publius6961
Thank you for making flights for the rest of us a little bit more pleasant.

Evidently you are one of those fellows who enjoys body-cavity searches.

72 posted on 01/18/2004 10:00:46 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Drug prohibition laws help fund terrorism.)
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To: Dr. Marten
Please do explain this statement because from where I sit it falls to the category of stupidest things I have ever heard...

I don't fly. The airlines make no more money from me.

You have heard of economics, right?

73 posted on 01/18/2004 10:02:08 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Drug prohibition laws help fund terrorism.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Insta-Ideologuese-to-English translation:

"Those who scorn and loathe the making of terroristic threats are just sexual perverts."

74 posted on 01/18/2004 10:03:31 AM PST by Cultural Jihad
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To: Cultural Jihad
Insta-Ideologuese-to-English translation:

"Those who scorn and loathe the making of terroristic threats are just sexual perverts."

No.

Those who go out of their way to patronize establishments that might perform a body-cavity search on them must like it.

75 posted on 01/18/2004 10:05:38 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Drug prohibition laws help fund terrorism.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum; Cobra64
Evidently you are one of those fellows who enjoys body-cavity searches.

If the screeners wanted to stick a sigmoidiscope up your butt, you'd bend over as soon as the KY came into view.

The fact that you two have to wildly exaggerate to make a point tells me you know dang well your point is fairly bogus.

76 posted on 01/18/2004 10:05:39 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Evidently you are one of those fellows who enjoys body-cavity searches.

No, I'm not. Any other inane assertions?
And if the subject gives you a thrill, I'm sure that you could find a few other sites you might enjoy more than Free Republic. Try Google.

77 posted on 01/18/2004 10:09:29 AM PST by Publius6961 (40% of Californians are as dumb as a sack of rocks.)
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To: Publius6961
No, I'm not. Any other inane assertions?

You're the one who likes to patronize places where you're likley to get one. I just made the observations.

78 posted on 01/18/2004 10:11:01 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Drug prohibition laws help fund terrorism.)
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To: All
To whom it may concern, knock off the personal and scatological (bleep).
79 posted on 01/18/2004 10:17:30 AM PST by Sidebar Moderator
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To: Cobra64
It's my choice bozo.

That's pretty much the point. The government institutes absurd screening practices, staffs minimum wage losers to enforce them, and then folks act astonished when some choose to stop flying.

A new disincentive has entered the equation, and suddenly driving is preferable to flying for some (over certain distances). It should be clear to anyone that this was bound to happen.

80 posted on 01/18/2004 10:18:39 AM PST by NittanyLion (E-A-G-L-E-S - Eagles!)
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