Don't joke around airport security!!

[Obi-Wan Pinobi]

I read this in today's Richmond Times Dispatch --

Airport: This joke no laughing matter (http://www.timesdispatch.com/frontpage/MGBF01SZ14D.html)

[Disney Daniel]

Wow, really something.
I can think of an incident in our airport recently where a passenger made a joke going through security. He was arrested, but was later allowed to board a later flight.

[Eeyore1954]

I learned a LONG time ago -- years before 9/11 -- not to make jokes while going through security. In Chicago there are signs posted warning people not to make jokes about bombs, etc. But then it was in Chicago that a man made it through security with a half-dozen knives and other forbidden items in his carry-on bag. In my travels, I've found Chicago O'Hare to have the most LAX security.

[ripleysmom]

I know someone that made a joke about 2 Middle Eastern men giving him something before boarding (this was about a year before 9/11). Well they detained him in front of his children and he is banned from flying Delta ever again.

[Kim&Chris]

Serves him right! What kind of moron makes jokes about bombs anyway?? ESPECIALLY after the horror of 9/11.

I wish Philly International Airport was as "on top of things" as that airport seems to be!

[MickeyMonstersMom]

I've been teaching US History for 8 years, and have often used "saying bomb in an airport" as a modern-day example of the "clear and present danger" rule set by the Supreme Court in 1919. People should really know better... idiots.

Lori