Flight delayed when math mistaken for terrorism by passenger

Fox News.com ^ | May 8, 2016

[Kaslin]

An Ivy League professor says his flight was delayed when a fellow passenger mistook his scribbling on a math problem as a sign he might be a terrorist.

American Airlines confirms that a woman expressed suspicions about University of Pennsylvania economics professor Guido Menzio.

He was flying from Philadelphia to Syracuse on Thursday to give a talk at Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada. He was working on a differential equation, but said he was told the woman thought he might be a terrorist because of what he was writing.

Casey Norton, a spokesman for the air carrier, said the women’s allegations about Menzio were deemed not credible.

[Dutch Boy]

Who knew “Idiocracy” was actually a documentary on the future rather than a comedy...

[dfwgator]

Future? I think Idiocracy pretty much resembles the present.

[David G. Hall]

Land of the free? Nope.

Home of the brave? Nope.

[GOYAKLA]

Congrats to you, both.
gasport, Gebra is 6 sizes larger than an Abra, and a Zebra 25 times larger.

[SamAdams76]

Calculus and Trigonometry terrorized me in high school.

I am still awaiting reparations.

[vette6387]

Sure the guy’s last name wasn’t Sarducci, as in Fr. Guido Sarducci? Fr. Guido has a “Five Minute University!” If it had been him, all of this could have been dispatched as a “coinzidenza!”

[ThePatriotsFlag]

Embarrassing for the woman? She should be in jail!!!

[Kaslin]

When our children were small they always used to tell us when we were getting low on money: “But you still have checks left”.

[Kaslin]

She would fit in perfectly

[BlueLancer]

"When our children were small they always used to tell us when we were getting low on money: “But you still have checks left”."

Funny, that's the same statement that we hear in court when young soldiers are court-martialed for writing bad checks ... and we're not just talking one or two bad checks, but rather dozens.

"I thought that I had money in the bank because I still had checks in my checkbook ..."

[Billthedrill]

Differential equations are terrorism and their users should be banned. (Guess who got a C in diffyQ?)

[Kaslin]

No misspelling in either word. that is why the spellchecker did not catch it.

[DeFault User]

It looks like jihadist jibber-jabber to me!"

[Kaslin]

Math was my weak subject in school. Language and history were my strong ones

[Kaslin]

You said it.

[Kaslin]

BTTT

[Kaslin]

Well, I wouldn’t go quite that far.

[Trumpinator]

It’s all Greek to me.

[Fitzy_888]

A supply demand curve is subversive, I’d been suspicious myself. /sarc

[Kaslin]

They must be court-martialed when they knowingly write bad checks?

I have written some checks many years ago unknowingly that bounced, but always took care of them when I got the notice from my bank.