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My question is. Even after all this nonsense, why did it take several hours of questioning before releasing the man with the camera?
What a train wreck and an epic failure on the part of the flight crew. I hope this guy gets paid. The moron who flipped out thinking the guy in her aisle was literally looking up bomb making instructions /in flight/ should be civilly liable to the airline and other passengers. By all means, let’s all disengage critical thinking skills and give equal weight to everyone’s opinion and see where that takes society. I’ll…
My question is. Even after all this nonsense, why did it take several hours of questioning before releasing the man with the camera?
They tried to find another angle on the dude. "It wasnt a bomb, but we found (trace amounts of) drugs on him, we thank our vigilante crew members for watching over plane safety!!1"
Will this cause anyone to critically examine the actions of the passenger, the flight crew, and JTTF?
Likely not.
Because once person A points a finger in the direction of person B, everyone's incentive is to make sure they are not the one who allowed the "terrorist" to go free.
Easily avoidable false positives like this are security failures. They slowly erode trust instead of allowing a literal big bang demonstration of the failure and therefore they are insidious.
What a train wreck and an epic failure on the part of the flight crew. I hope this guy gets paid. The moron who flipped out thinking the guy in her aisle was literally looking up bomb making instructions /in flight/ should be civilly liable to the airline and other passengers. By all means, let’s all disengage critical thinking skills and give equal weight to everyone’s opinion and see where that takes society. I’ll…
I just don't understand how someone genuinely believed a picture of a vintage camera was a picture of a bomb...
What was the camera?
What a shit show. I feel bad for the guy. Does anyone else remember that reddit post a few days ago were OP took a pic of a guy working on his speakers and accused him of building a bomb on a flight? Both situations could have been defused(yep) with a simple conversation or by just minding your own business.
I read that as "sneakers" and was like "well yeah".
And then I realized it was "speakers" and that it was twenty years ago when the shoe bomber was arrested.
Holy. Not even one person considered talking to this man first. If he really had a bomb you’d be dead either way. Why has humanity invented language? Just to not use it? Instead emergency land, evacuate, police until finally someone talks to him? People are so scared nowadays. In a few years wearing the wrong shoes gets you imprisoned before anyone even talks to you. Poor guy!
The wrong shoes:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Richard_Reid%27s_Shoes.jp...
