Passenger arrested for bomb threat at St. Louis airport

[proud2BlibKansan]

ST. LOUIS | An airline passenger is arrested after authorities say he made a bomb threat when flight attendants asked him to close his laptop computer before takeoff.

The man was on board a United Express flight to Washington Saturday afternoon at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport. Airport spokesman Jeff Lea said that when attendants asked him to close his laptop, "he mentioned a bomb or made a bomb threat."

Police were called, and the man was arrested. The flight was delayed more than two hours while police searched the plane for explosives but nothing was found.

http://www.kansascity.com/news/breaking_news/story/964170.html

[NOW tense]

1. Note: Never mention a Ba

[Deja Q]

11. What's a "ba"?

:D

[Aviation Pro]

2. I've been on that flight to DC.....

...it's a 50 seat ERJ-145 and the quarters are cramped. The perp was either a wiseass or stupid and I'll go with stupid.

[stray cat]

3. He deserves to be kicked off for stupidity if nothing else

[Fleshdancer]

4. idiot

Flying and dealing with delays is annoying enough without assholes like this making it worse.

[opihimoimoi]

5. 2 Hour DELAY...I woulda been furious at them attendents....

[Fleshdancer]

6. mad at the attendants? why? n/t

[opihimoimoi]

7. Its all their fault....shoulda just confiscated the damn LT

[NeedleCast]

8. It wasn't about the laptop, it was about the bomb comment

Airline attendants don't get to decide who's making a bad joke and who's a threat. If someone has a pair of braincells to rub together, they should know that making a comment like that is a good way to go to jail.

As a person who used to spend a lot of time traveling for business, I'm glad they take stuff like this seriously. Since airport security is a joke, I appreciate flight attendants (who do a demanding and very often unappreciated job) who are willing to step in and take care of business (and idiots).

[opihimoimoi]

9. There has to be a line somewhere...this is insane...the other day..gramps made a fart in

a plane and the grand kid sez..."Granpa made a stink bomb"

OOps...off the Plane....initiate search team....missed flight...answers 2 hours of questions.....etc etc....

This is going nuts....

[louis-t]

10. A (now deceased) friend did the same on his honeymoon.

He was drunk, made a comment about hijacking, taken off the plane and questioned, put them on a later flight. This was before 9/11.