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uzim
on 2004-01-21 07:07 [#01042632]
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recently, a french student called Franck Moulet has been arrested because of this:
as he has been in the toilets of an airplane for a long time (because he was sick), the stewardess got worried and asked what he was doing... as a joke, he replied "i'm just sick.. don't worry, i'm not making a bomb!".
which they didn't appreciate.
and now he risks 4 years of prison for having replied that. o_O
i'm definitely never going to usa...
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Bob Mcbob
on 2004-01-21 07:09 [#01042634]
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like that english woman who told the customs guy she had a bomb as a joke, now faces 15 years in prison...
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uzim
on 2004-01-21 07:12 [#01042637]
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and this kind of things happen quite often even... the responsibles for this kind of crazy so-called "justice" should be shot.
i'm not exaggerating.
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uzim
on 2004-01-21 07:13 [#01042639]
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well, yes, i am exaggerating - should be put in prison.
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blowfield
on 2004-01-21 07:14 [#01042641]
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hmm, if people saying that for joke get 15 years in prison, how about the people not talking about it but doing it?
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uzim
on 2004-01-21 07:19 [#01042643]
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you can't compare...
saying this for a joke shouldn't be punished at all, even paying a $1 dollar fee for that would be ridiculous.
( in that case, if you sneeze in public you should face 5 years of prison too... if you make a typo, $100 fee... oh wait, it already happened, someone being fired for a typo he made while writing something on a cake... =/ )
it's a scandalous world we live in.
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blowfield
on 2004-01-21 07:21 [#01042646]
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people fear, and this is the way they get along with their fear, that's all, i think, but they are overdoing, totally
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uzim
on 2004-01-21 07:53 [#01042663]
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the ones who fear become more frightening and dangerous than the ones they fear...
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Bob Mcbob
on 2004-01-21 08:01 [#01042668]
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but the ones who they fear are also frightening and dangerous, and probably fear them.
what a paradox!
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nlogax
from oh, you must be the brains (Norway) on 2004-01-21 08:04 [#01042669]
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solution: zip it
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Sepix
from Major City (Austria) on 2004-01-21 08:09 [#01042670]
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some students threw a cake in the face from some important guy the day before - the terror command is researching and the guy who threw the cake faces about 1, 2 years jail ...
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Drunken Mastah
from OPPERKLASSESVIN!!! (Norway) on 2004-01-21 08:12 [#01042674]
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i'm not answering. i'm making a bomb.
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eXXailon
from purgatory on 2004-01-21 08:27 [#01042680]
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paranoid assholes, they dont realise how ridiculous their policy is.
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Peloton
from London (United Kingdom) on 2004-01-21 08:42 [#01042702]
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English women claims to have a bomb in her rucksack, but doesn't, and gets put in jail.
Bush claims there's WMD in Iraq, but there aren't...
... you can make up your own ending.
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earthleakage
from tell the world you're winning on 2004-01-21 08:51 [#01042721]
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HE'S A WITCH! BUUURN HIM!
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Peloton
from London (United Kingdom) on 2004-01-21 08:54 [#01042727]
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This is the ultimate in American paranoia
click here
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Zephyr Twin
from ΔΔΔ on 2004-01-21 08:57 [#01042731]
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as a hardworking american, I would just like to say that if I had a rifle and a clear shot at bush's occipital lobe, I would take it.
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The_Funkmaster
from St. John's (Canada) on 2004-01-21 09:02 [#01042741]
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doesn't it matter THAT HE WASN'T MAKING THE DAMN BOMB?!?!?
not much difference from terrorism and so called "anti-terrorism" as far as I can tell...
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uzim
on 2004-01-21 09:09 [#01042743]
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The_Funkmaster > he didn't even say he was making it. he said he wasn't.
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pantalaimon
from Winterfell (United Kingdom) on 2004-01-21 09:13 [#01042748]
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VOTE BUSH!
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eXXailon
from purgatory on 2004-01-21 09:14 [#01042749]
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how the hell could he be locked in prison for 4 years without tangible proof? :|
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uzim
on 2004-01-21 09:16 [#01042753]
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eXXailon > ask them...
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eXXailon
from purgatory on 2004-01-21 09:17 [#01042755]
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your country is a web of conspiracies....
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epohs
from )C: on 2004-01-21 09:18 [#01042756]
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'fire' in a crowded theatre
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Zeus
from San Francisco (United States) on 2004-01-21 09:24 [#01042763]
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ok lets look at this realistically.
1. he had to have gotten through security and checkpoints to get on a plane.
2. explosive material is easy to pickup. as would be the components to construct a bomb.
3. HE DIDNT EVEN HAVE A BOMB. HE WASNT DOING IT.
AHHHH
Fuck. I understand perhaps its not something someone wants to hear... but fuck that, people make slips, and sometimes say inappropriate things... but last I checked, thats not punishable by prison time.
The MOST the kid should have to do, is apologize... and even that is pushing it.
God damn.
Oh, and about that child ID thing... its just so that the government can get your dna, and as much about you on record, while you're young, and can't control your personal information.
Big brother is already on its way. Its just that the government is doing it nice and slow (well, in some cases not) but generally, doing it slow enough, to not shine too much attention onto itself, and what its really doing.
bah.
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Zeus
from San Francisco (United States) on 2004-01-21 09:27 [#01042765]
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yeah, but you can't compare it.
Saying "fire" in a crowded theater, is intentional, to scare everyone, and cause a public disturbance.
This is more along the lines of the guy saying at the end of a movie, when everyones leaving "dont everyone push to get out the doors, its not like theres a fire or anything" and then having people go OMG! FIRE!
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Gwely Mernans
from 23rd century entertainment (Canada) on 2004-01-21 09:32 [#01042768]
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ill bet the stewardess was being a total bitch knocking and knocking on the door while he was trying to enjoy a dump. and here persistent nagging (as if she was taking it too seriously like there was a bomb)
so what we have here is a funny sarcastic good willed citizen who suffers constipation.
VOTE BUSH!
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Gwely Mernans
from 23rd century entertainment (Canada) on 2004-01-21 09:36 [#01042771]
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i love that scene in "A fish called Wanda" where Kevin Kline has a gun in his pocket and a metal detector at the airport slowly approaches. then he flips the gun out of his pocket and lobs it around the detector, walks through, and catches his gun on the other side.
please note that this is a british airport.
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epohs
from )C: on 2004-01-21 09:38 [#01042773]
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yeah, i'm not defending it. i think we've gone crazie reactionary paranoid over here.
i was just offering the rationale behind it. it's not quite as nonsensical as people make it out to be.
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Refund
from Melbourne (Australia) on 2004-01-21 11:47 [#01042956]
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this thread has disheatened my opinion towards "the system" in general
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acrid milk hall
from United Kingdom on 2004-01-21 12:21 [#01042986]
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re. the british girl who was arrested for saying she had a bomb in her rucksack..
whether its an over-reaction or not - its a pretty stupid joke to make in light of current affairs.. particularly in america.
its not even a witty joke either. its a really obvious one to make and, therefore, not very funny.
she even repeated the joke more than once..
take a look (she doesn't look like the sharpest of tools either) http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/shropshire/3417847.stm
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bogala
from NYC (United States) on 2004-01-21 15:16 [#01043272]
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I don't trust airline security one fucking bit.
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AlfredPMcLovely
from the country that will end up d (Turkmenistan) on 2004-01-21 15:48 [#01043303]
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I think the people who go out of their way to enforce these "rules" should be shot. Seriously, they terrorize the country more than any foreigner. I literally think they should be put to death. All this code orange nonsense is ridiculous.
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X-tomatic
from ze war room on 2004-01-21 16:46 [#01043346]
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A member of the Thai Interreligious Network for Peace, Yongyut Buranacharoenkit, called the United States the "biggest bully."
"There should be none of this separation of countries that are dangerous and those that are not, definitions that the United States created itself," he said. "I think no matter whose hands these weapons are in, they are dangerous."
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