Man in disguise boards international flight
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Man in disguise boards international flight
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#4Dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1872306 also: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1872990 and: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1872289
It seems that timing is everything. BTW, I find "Dup" comments valuable when the original had commentary we would otherwise miss or when the original was deleted by mods. This appears to be the case with your second link, so thank you.
However, if the original failed to get votes and is reposted later, I'm personally all for it. HN's algorithm is rather capricious, trying again may garner interest, and that's a good thing for HN.
Example:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1803432 and http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1801632
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#5The things people will do for frequent flier miles...
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#6Dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1872306 also: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1872990 and: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1872289
It seems that timing is everything. BTW, I find "Dup" comments valuable when the original had commentary we would otherwise miss or when the original was deleted by mods. This appears to be the case with your second link, so thank you. However, if the original failed to get votes and is reposted later, I'm personally all for it. HN's algorithm is rather capricious, trying again may garner interest, and that's a good…
I agree entirely. Ideally there would be a way of simply merging items to get all the references to the same story from different sources, and combine the comment threads.
But that won't happen any time soon. Cross-referencing is the best we can manage for now.
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#7Making a latex mask matching the credentials of the original passenger seems high cost/effort. It'll be interesting to see the back story here.
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#8Making a latex mask matching the credentials of the original passenger seems high cost/effort. It'll be interesting to see the back story here.
There has been a refugee claim, but no talk of arresting the original passenger. I wonder if this is the case of someone helping a dissident to get out of China.
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#9It seems that this person was trying to escape from China for some reason -- and all these newscasters can think about is terrorism and security.
He didn't get a bomb on the plane, it was a latex costume. And he didn't even use it to try and get into Canada, just out of HK. He's pretty awesome pulling all of this off.
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#10What I'm really curious about is why he took it off mid-flight. Obviously it's a latex costume and a long flight, probably extremely uncomfortable but think about it, how is the person in the seat next to him not going to notice?
Given the refugee claim, it might have a lot to do with the fact he wanted to make no false claim on entry. Also the reaction of a passenger is likely to be more acceptable than if you attempt this at the airport and get noticed.
I'd really like to hear what caused this stunt, though.