# The Flying Morons - another plane delayed by a fucking idiot **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 7, 2016, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-flying-morons-another-plane-delayed-by-a-fucking-idiot/754219 "2016-05-07T20:51:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![doorhinge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a5b964/32.png) [@doorhinge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doorhinge)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2016, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-flying-morons-another-plane-delayed-by-a-fucking-idiot/754219/161 "2016-05-12T20:01:45Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Translation: It just wasn’t dumbed down enough for her…or for you, apparently. > Does “If You See Bad Thing, Tell Badge Man!” work for you? No multi-syllable words to confuse you, and you won’t waste anyone’s time telling the police about the birds that just flew by. On second thought, I don’t see any point of your calling Obama’s DHS. You’ll probably just piss them off. ---
**Author:** ![doorhinge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a5b964/32.png) [@doorhinge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doorhinge)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2016, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-flying-morons-another-plane-delayed-by-a-fucking-idiot/754219/162 "2016-05-12T20:06:20Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Ask who? The LSM. They’ve proven in the past that they can get passenger lists, home addresses, and security videos. Maybe they could bribe someone? Or threaten to expose them on the internet where they would be ridiculed by the redickuless. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2016, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-flying-morons-another-plane-delayed-by-a-fucking-idiot/754219/163 "2016-05-12T20:09:20Z")
> [@doorhinge](#): > > On second thought, I don’t see any point of your calling Obama’s DHS. You’ll probably just piss them off. I don’t have to call them, because I’m not the one grossly misunderstanding what they mean. If _you_ have any questions about whether or not to call to report that you “see something”, please talk to a responsible adult first. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2016, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-flying-morons-another-plane-delayed-by-a-fucking-idiot/754219/164 "2016-05-12T20:13:22Z")
> [@John\_Bredin](#): > > {…} You can’t make bricks without straw. :smack: {…} How dare you sir! It’s very clear that doorhinge can make most anything out of straw! 😉 CMC fnord! ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2016, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-flying-morons-another-plane-delayed-by-a-fucking-idiot/754219/165 "2016-05-12T20:19:25Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Ask who? The woman on the plane. I think her name may be **doorhinge**. ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2016, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-flying-morons-another-plane-delayed-by-a-fucking-idiot/754219/166 "2016-05-12T20:30:04Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > An unattended bag is a legitimate call-in. Who would leave a bag in an airport for even a moment and expect it to be there when they got back? Cause people are dumb and forget stuff. > [@John\_Bredin](#): > > Nobody is seriously suggesting that this woman be legally punished for making a false report. She presumably made a report in good faith; one could say “pure heart, empty head”. 🙂 I think I’d support that. Punishment for false reports would cut down on false reports. I don’t care if it cuts down on real reports, because like I said, I’m willing to take chances. Besides, I assume apropos of nothing that the real terrorism incidents will balance out the reluctance of some people to report something suspicious. Its all a circle you see! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2016, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-flying-morons-another-plane-delayed-by-a-fucking-idiot/754219/167 "2016-05-12T20:35:23Z")
> [@doorhinge](#): > > (post shortened) > > Ask her. :smack: This isn’t rocket surgery. :rolleyes: > [@doorhinge](#): > > The LSM. That’s a “her”? ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2016, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-flying-morons-another-plane-delayed-by-a-fucking-idiot/754219/168 "2016-05-12T21:24:28Z")
**OMG!** I just glanced out my window, and saw something!!! Who do I call??? ---
**Author:** ![John\_Bredin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@John\_Bredin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Bredin)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2016, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-flying-morons-another-plane-delayed-by-a-fucking-idiot/754219/169 "2016-05-12T21:25:37Z")
> [@doorhinge](#): > > The LSM. They’ve proven in the past that they can get passenger lists, home addresses, and security videos. Maybe they could bribe someone? Or threaten to expose them on the internet where they would be ridiculed by the redickuless. How is the position that the media is obligated to seek her out with extraordinary measures and extract her side of the story, when she isn’t voluntarily giving it, functionally or practically any different from my “if you can’t get her version, don’t report the story” surmise, which you said was wrong?😕:dubious: ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2016, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-flying-morons-another-plane-delayed-by-a-fucking-idiot/754219/170 "2016-05-12T21:26:56Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > **OMG!** > > I just glanced out my window, and saw something!!! > > Who do I call??? Ghostbusters! ---
**Author:** ![John\_Bredin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@John\_Bredin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Bredin)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2016, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-flying-morons-another-plane-delayed-by-a-fucking-idiot/754219/171 "2016-05-12T21:28:23Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Ghostbusters! No, that’s when you see nothing and should still say something. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2016, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-flying-morons-another-plane-delayed-by-a-fucking-idiot/754219/172 "2016-05-12T21:36:05Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > **OMG!** > > I just glanced out my window, and saw something!!! > > Who do I call??? That depends. Was it algebra or calculus? ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2016, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-flying-morons-another-plane-delayed-by-a-fucking-idiot/754219/173 "2016-05-12T22:20:44Z")
> [@doorhinge](#): > > (post shortened) > > Hahahaha. Trump didn’t say he wanted to ban all Muslims from entering the country because they can’t be trusted. > > How do you know that this suspicious woman isn’t a Hillary/Cruz/Bernie disciple? Or don’t facts matter? > > I hold the radical, fanatical Muslim terrorists responsible for any paranoia about radical, fanatical Muslims. Dylan should rewrite the Talkin’ John Birch Society Paranoid Blues into the Talkin’ Doorhinge paranoid Muslim terrorist blues for you. Don’t blame Robert Welch or Trump, blame them Commies/Terrorists. That terrorists exist doesn’t mean that they are down deep inside your toilet bowl. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2016, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-flying-morons-another-plane-delayed-by-a-fucking-idiot/754219/174 "2016-05-12T22:25:27Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > That depends. Was it algebra or calculus? It was calculus, so I would guess the appropriate person to call would be a dental hygienist. To, you know, scrape it off. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2016, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-flying-morons-another-plane-delayed-by-a-fucking-idiot/754219/175 "2016-05-12T22:49:09Z")
> [@doorhinge](#): > > You don’t know this woman’s side of this incident but have jumped to the conclusion that what she did was stupid and she’s a moron. > > Considering the abuse the woman has taken in just this thread, why would any woman speak out publically? What makes you think that the woman’s side of the story has not been fully and accurately reported? We don’t need her words for that; we’ve got the airline, the TSA, and the mathematician all reporting the incident. Do you believe that if we hear her version, we will all slap our heads, and say, “Oh, yeah, of course! I’d have done the same.” ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2016, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-flying-morons-another-plane-delayed-by-a-fucking-idiot/754219/176 "2016-05-12T23:05:52Z")
Obviously, in **unhinged** ’s world that’s exactly what will happen. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2016, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-flying-morons-another-plane-delayed-by-a-fucking-idiot/754219/177 "2016-05-12T23:16:07Z")
Based on the title I thought this thread was going to be about the dolts who regularly fly their Best Buy drones through commercial flight paths. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2016, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-flying-morons-another-plane-delayed-by-a-fucking-idiot/754219/178 "2016-05-13T00:43:09Z")
> [@doorhinge](#): > > Then the system worked. According to Obama’s Dept. of Homeland Security, if you see something, say something. The woman saw something and she said something. The authorities investigated and found nothing wrong. Some people on the internet have chosen to attack the woman for have the audacity to speak up. I guess they don’t believe this woman knows her place on an airplane (or maybe in society)? Even granting that: 1. The woman is an idiot for thinking writing math is a terrorist activity. 2. Why did it take the airline (I believe they handled it not TSA) 2 hours to determine writing math is not a terrorist activity? It should have taken 5 minutes to get the guy back on the plane and explain to the woman that she is dumber than a retarded shar-pei. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2016, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-flying-morons-another-plane-delayed-by-a-fucking-idiot/754219/179 "2016-05-13T04:34:25Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > **OMG!** > > I just glanced out my window, and saw something!!! > > Who do I call??? Doorhinge ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2016, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-flying-morons-another-plane-delayed-by-a-fucking-idiot/754219/180 "2016-05-13T05:42:03Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > > [@doorhinge](#): > > > > (post shortened) > > > > Ask her. :smack: This isn’t rocket surgery. :rolleyes: > > Ask who? **It’s Not Rocket Surgery** , obviously. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-flying-morons-another-plane-delayed-by-a-fucking-idiot/754219.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-flying-morons-another-plane-delayed-by-a-fucking-idiot/754219.md?page=10)