Eagle-eyed TSA agents stop sarcasm from blowing up plane. After Jessica came back from Mexico last month with a $200 suitcase destroyed by the monkeys at TSA--even after watching her open the case and leave everything unlocked, some shmoe still snapped off our latches--I dislike these guys even more.
Yet, read the language used in the article. Though this teen may be guilty of swearing and some pretty typical anti-authortarian nose-thumbing, there's nothing in his note that's a "bomb threat". In fact, there's no threat made at all. The reporter's language is just as assumptive as the neighbor interviewed at the end of the article ("I always thought he was a good kid." He still is, you dingleberry!)
Teen arrested at Logan for alleged bomb threat in his bag
By Nicole Fuller, Globe Correspondent, 8/2/2003
A Paxton teenager was arraigned on a felony charge yesterday morning after he and his family were removed from a plane bound for Hawaii following the discovery of a profanity-filled note referencing a bomb in his luggage examined at Logan International Airport.
Appearing in court with his navy blue T-shirt pulled up over his face, 17-year-old David Socha pleaded not guilty to one count of making a bomb/hijacking threat in East Boston District Court, as his parents and younger sister looked on.
Ann E. Davis, a spokeswoman for the Transportation Security Administration, said the note was discovered by a baggage screener at about 6:20 a.m. when the bag was chosen for a random search. No bomb was found.
Socha was arrested by State Police and his mother, father, and sister, were ordered off United Airlines Flight 171 to Honolulu via San Francisco, which was set to depart at 7:07 a.m.
According to the police report, the note, which was placed on top of clothes in a black gym bag read: ''[Expletive] you. Stay the [expletive] out of my bag you [expletive] sucker. Have you found a [expletive] bomb yet? No, just clothes. Am I right? Yea, so [expletive] you.''