Oy, of all the possible jokes to make... He made *that* one

[JoseB]

Guy gets into hot water after making a silly joke on a flight from the US to the Dominican Republic.

On a US Airways flight from Philadelphia to Punta Cana, a passenger sneezed and said: “I’ve got Ebola, you’re all screwed”.

And, well, the rest is history.

'Idiot' US Airways Passenger Makes Ebola Joke, Hazmat Team Shows Up

Ebola joke rattles passengers on US Airways flight to Dominican Republic

:smack:

[Johnny_L.A]

And then someone else yelled, ‘I don’t want to hijack your joke, but I think it bombed!’

[running_coach]

Good one, L.A.

Laughter is the best medicine.

[VinylTurnip]

The plane was stopped on the tarmac in Punta Cana “due to a possible health issue on board,” the airline said in a statement. Then a flight attendant told passengers to sit down and listen.

“It’s going to look worse than it is,” she said over the PA system. “I’ve done this for 36 years. I think the man that has said this is an idiot, and I’ll say that straight out. If you hear me that’s fine.”

Outstanding.

[JRDelirious]

Well, dude’s gonna have a really memorable vacation, that much he can be sure of…

And we wonder why the cabin crews are cranky. Good for the chief attendant for expressing everyone’s feelings.

[Bear_Nenno]

2319!!! 2319!!

[Colibri]

Talk about a sick joke!

[Wile_E]

Some people don’t come with logic filters.

[billfish678]

Word to the wise.

Never make a joke about high explosives to young relatives as they are getting in the car to go to the airport.

Did you know little kids REALLY like the sound of the words “high explosives”?

Tell em. You’ll see.

[hotflungwok]

Maybe he just really needed a full cavity search and didn’t have the money to pay for one himself.

[Left_Hand_of_Dorkness]

@Bear_Nenno

2319!!! 2319!!

Too soon, dude. Too soon.

[handsomeharry]

I’m all for tasteless, shocking, shameless jokes-if they’re funny.

I don’t think this was funny. If he’d said “I just blew the Captain, and he looked like he had ebola”, that *might *have been funny.

This was something a 6th grader would say.

[Guinastasia]

@handsomeharry

I’m all for tasteless, shocking, shameless jokes-if they’re funny.

I don’t think this was funny. If he’d said “I just blew the Captain, and he looked like he had ebola”, that *might *have been funny.

This was something a 6th grader would say.

If you said something like that, and got the entire flight delayed, I doubt anyone else would find that funny either.

[DinoR]

Venue was clearly wrong because only one stranger had to not get it to cause massively annoying response … but I laughed reading it.

[buddha_david]

It’s a bad joke, but I can’t think of any way to improve it. Claiming he had Bird Flu or Hantavirus just isn’t timely enough.

[Mean_Mr.Mustard]

I sorta feel bad for the guy.

Yeah, it was a stupid thing to say (and it certainly didn’t bring the funny), but who among us hasn’t opened mouth without thinking?
mmm

[Cicero]

@buddha_david

It’s a bad joke, but I can’t think of any way to improve it. Claiming he had Bird Flu or Hantavirus just isn’t timely enough.

Maybe he could have said nothing.

[Johnny_L.A]

@Mean_Mr.Mustard

but who among us hasn’t opened mouth without thinking?

When do I not open my mouth without thinking?

[Flywheel]

@handsomeharry

he’d said “I just blew the Captain, and he looked like he had ebola”, that *might *have been funny.

There’s an “Ebola Gay” joke in there somewhere…

[Amateur_Barbarian]

No, it was up to the guy next to him to deliver the better joke…

sneeze
Say, you didn’t just sneeze Ebola all over me, did you?
Of course not!
Well, good. The last guy didn’t tell me right away.