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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsEbola 'joke' gets man escorted off plane by 4 men in hazmat suits
A flier on US Airways Flight 845 from Philadelphia to Punta Cana jokes by saying 'I have Ebola, you are all screwed.'
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/osndn-ebola-joke-on-plane-man-removed-20141010-embeddedvideo.html
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Ebola 'joke' gets man escorted off plane by 4 men in hazmat suits (Original Post)
Baitball Blogger
Oct 2014
OP
and then there is stupid. my young teens used to joke about taking a bomb on an
seabeyond
Oct 2014
#2
it's obnoxious to claim to have a communicable disease on a crowded plane
Liberal_in_LA
Oct 2014
#12
ProdigalJunkMail
(12,017 posts)1. good...
fuck him... not funny.
try that shit with, 'i have a bomb and you're all screwed' and see what that gets you...
sP
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)2. and then there is stupid. my young teens used to joke about taking a bomb on an
airplane... and then, there is stupid.
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)3. Worst sense of humor...ever!
Can criminal charges be filed against the asshole?
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joeybee12
(56,177 posts)7. Welcome to DU...and even if there were no danger...
the inconvenience alone to the other passengers is worthy of a big fine.
dhill926
(16,234 posts)4. real Rhodes Scholar there...
Needs to spend some time in the slammer...
louis-t
(23,199 posts)6. I knew a guy that made a joke about a bomb as he was about to get on a plane
on the way to his honeymoon. I expect they had been drinking heavily. They pulled them off the plane. And this was before 9/11.
ohnoyoudidnt
(1,858 posts)8. Stupid ass
It should be common sense that you do not joke about anything that threatens the safety of a flight on a plane or at an airport.
customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)9. Common sense
isn't as common as it used to be.
Hekate
(90,189 posts)10. Remember when "hi, Jack!" was considered a (bad) joke? nt
ohnoyoudidnt
(1,858 posts)11. Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue. nt
Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)12. it's obnoxious to claim to have a communicable disease on a crowded plane