WTF are people thinking? What kind of an idiot would think this might be a good idea? i hope he is locked up for many years.
The kind of idiot that lives in Klamath Falls.
What? I don’t get to make jokes about fellow Oregonians and their poorly chosen areas to inhabit?
You have to give him a point for ingenuity.
Unfortunately, you also have to take away a hundred points for general asshattery.
Dr. J
Rest assured that the judicial system will rightfully stomp him with an iron boot. I expect they will make him an example to others.
And they should bill him for the extra fuel for the plane, time of the bomb squad and other law enforcement agents, and some amount for the 30 other passengers (mental anguish)
What a dumbass. I think they should throw his ass in jail for a long time and let him think about this. And about the fact that it might be a little difficult for him to buy a plane ticket from now on. Would you want to carry this asshat around on your planes?
Someone over here capped even that guy’s performance recently. A flight from Budapest to Paris had to turn back at great expense due to a bomb scare.
It turned out that the anonymous caller had lost in an office sweepstake to win a holiday in the French capital, and - you’ve guessed it - was taking revenge on his luckier colleagues who were on the plane.
They caught up with him pretty soon as he’d used his own mobile phone to make the call…
:smack:
Just for the sake of fairness, it should be pointed out that the man is only accused of this crime. According to the article, he’s being held on two unrelated outstanding charges.
Didn’t something like this happen last year? I seem to remember somebody being convicted of the same thing. I can imagine somebody calling in bomb threats because they’re mentally ill, but doing it for the purpose of delaying a plane so you’ll make your flight is simply amazing.
The kind with a DUI warrant or two outstanding, who expected it would never catch up with him.
Pffft. And to think some of you are still against capital punishment.
Nonsense. Any Dutchman born between 1960 and 1983 can immediately tell you this bloke ripped that stunt straight of Jiskefet, more specifically one of the Kerstens, Van Binsbergen & Kamphuijs episodes, circa 1995.
Hilarious joke. Of course, I didn’t expect anyone to actually DO it.
Brutus, oh my, here we go again. Are you seriously suggesting this man should be put to death for calling in a phony bomb threat, resulting in zero casualties? Then, a) you don’t know a whole lot about what it takes to get the death penalty, and b) you’re an asshole.
Doubtful. The idiot that ran through Hartsfield Airport, shutting it down for hours, was given a whopping $3,300 fine. I bet this new idiot doesn’t get much, if any, jail time. He’ll probably get a fine and some probation.
Cost of Cell Phone Call: 10 cents a minute
Cost of diverting plane: 500 x proffessional rate@ hour, price of airport fees, Jet Fuel, delays on the ground due to one less active departure gate as well as the salaries and supplies of the seach team: $5,000,000.00.
Getting 30 years in a Federal Penitentiary because you were too much of an AssHat to get your ass outta bed in time to catch your flight: Priceless.
This made me laugh out loud! Even if he did make the flight, I bet he’d be the first one complaining for pillows and pretzels.
You’ll recall my thread wherein my father happened to be seated next to a fellow on a Montreal to Paris flight.
This fellow had quarreled with his business partner in the Montreal airport, so the partner called in that the man on the plane had a bomb.
When the plane landed in Paris, the French equivalent of a swat team came in and removed him from the plane.
After a careful search, he was declared clear; in the meantime the fellow in Montreal was arrested.
Nonsense! As any Frenchman born between 1914 and 1975 will tell you, he lifted it from the classic 1981 comedy La chèvre starring the immortal Pierre Richard and the then-slender Gérard Depardieu.
From Coldfire:
You stole my words. I am aghast that you think this crime merits capital punishment.
My question is how the heck did he make it, unjailed and undead, to 29 burdened with the judgement to phone in a bomb scare in the event he was late for a flight??
Reminds me of that asshat who ran throught the airport because he left his camera at the desk. Why? I don’t know, I guess he was just that special kind of stupid like this guy.
Yeah! And rape! I hope this guy gets raped in prison too!
And beaten with sticks! And stuck in the iron maiden
I mean look at all those innocent people he murdered…
wait.