The 'Paranoid Airline Passenger Award' Goes to....

[Paul Ferguson <fergdawgster () gmail com>]

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...the idiot that thought:

1. Two men were speaking a foreign language,
2. One man was watching "The Kingdom" on DVD,
2. And another man got out of his seat while the seatbelt sign was lit,

...were "suspicious".

Great -- now we have this idiocy to look forward to.

Via SFGate.com (AP).

[snip]

Two men thought to have been acting suspicious aboard a flight bound for
Phoenix were detained and questioned by federal anti-terrorism authorities
before they were released, the FBI said Sunday.

Transportation Security Administration officials said passengers aboard
U.S. Airways Flight 192 from Orlando, Fla., on Saturday night reported that
two men, described as Middle Eastern, were acting strangely and talking
loudly to each other in a foreign language.

A nearby passenger also observed one of men watching what appeared to be
footage of a suicide bombing, but was actually a scene from the 2007 movie
"The Kingdom." The man also got up from his seat while the seat belt
warning sign was still lit, FBI spokesman Manuel Johnson said.

"The totality of those three occurrences led this passenger to believe this
was suspicious," he said.

[snip]

More:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/12/27/national/a14075
2S71.DTL

Enjoy!

- - ferg

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