[Lonesome in Massachussets]

You could have been arrested for saying something like that on an airplane in 1974. This is a very stoopid thing to do in 2004.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

You could have been arrested for saying something like that on an airplane in 1974. This is a very stoopid thing to do in 2004.

I hope all the airlines go bankrupt. I am doing my part to make this a reality.

[js1138]

You could have been arrested for saying something like that on an airplane in 1974.

I don't think you would have been arrested. My brother-in-law was held and questioned an couple decades ago after making a bomb joke at an airport.I think this is overkill, but it is (legally) equivalent to shouting fire in a theater. The airline industry doesn't need folks scaring off customers.

[Nowhere Man]

I remember a story where Roberto Clemente of the Pittsburgh Pirates made a similar joke, must have been the late 1960's or early 1970's when skyjackings were usually trips to Cuba. He made a joke about a bomb and he was detained at the airport until the next flight.

Another story with me in it this time was where my mother and I took her friend to the airport and as I was laying her big suitcase on the scale, she said "here's my old bomb." The ticket agents eyes grew wide and I said to her, "that's a poor choice of words to use here" and the ticket agent agreed with me. I believe it was 1999 or 2000, but sometimes I carry a police scanner and my ham radio with me so the security people did make me turn them on to prove to them that they are what they are. I just tuned in some planes and they were satisifed. I'm glad it wasn't past 9-11 though, I might have been detained along with my mother's friend, I doubt there would have been charges but there would have been a lot of questions and sorting out that could have taken hours.