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Baitball Blogger

(46,720 posts) Fri Oct 10, 2014, 04:08 PM Oct 2014

Ebola 'joke' gets man escorted off plane by 4 men in hazmat suits

A flier on US Airways Flight 845 from Philadelphia to Punta Cana jokes by saying 'I have Ebola, you are all screwed.'

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/osndn-ebola-joke-on-plane-man-removed-20141010-embeddedvideo.html

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Ebola 'joke' gets man escorted off plane by 4 men in hazmat suits (Original Post) Baitball Blogger Oct 2014 OP

good... ProdigalJunkMail Oct 2014 #1

and then there is stupid. my young teens used to joke about taking a bomb on an seabeyond Oct 2014 #2

Worst sense of humor...ever! joeybee12 Oct 2014 #3

Message auto-removed Name removed Oct 2014 #5

Welcome to DU...and even if there were no danger... joeybee12 Oct 2014 #7

real Rhodes Scholar there... dhill926 Oct 2014 #4

I knew a guy that made a joke about a bomb as he was about to get on a plane louis-t Oct 2014 #6

Stupid ass ohnoyoudidnt Oct 2014 #8

Common sense customerserviceguy Oct 2014 #9

Remember when "hi, Jack!" was considered a (bad) joke? nt Hekate Oct 2014 #10

Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue. nt ohnoyoudidnt Oct 2014 #11

it's obnoxious to claim to have a communicable disease on a crowded plane Liberal_in_LA Oct 2014 #12

ProdigalJunkMail

(12,017 posts)

1. good...

Reply to Baitball Blogger (Original post)

Fri Oct 10, 2014, 04:10 PM

Oct 2014

fuck him... not funny.

try that shit with, 'i have a bomb and you're all screwed' and see what that gets you...

sP

seabeyond

(110,159 posts)

2. and then there is stupid. my young teens used to joke about taking a bomb on an

Reply to Baitball Blogger (Original post)

Fri Oct 10, 2014, 04:11 PM

Oct 2014

airplane... and then, there is stupid.

joeybee12

(56,177 posts)

3. Worst sense of humor...ever!

Reply to Baitball Blogger (Original post)

Fri Oct 10, 2014, 04:11 PM

Oct 2014

Can criminal charges be filed against the asshole?

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joeybee12

(56,177 posts)

7. Welcome to DU...and even if there were no danger...

Reply to Name removed (Reply #5)

Fri Oct 10, 2014, 04:46 PM

Oct 2014

the inconvenience alone to the other passengers is worthy of a big fine.

dhill926

(16,339 posts)

4. real Rhodes Scholar there...

Reply to Baitball Blogger (Original post)

Fri Oct 10, 2014, 04:19 PM

Oct 2014

Needs to spend some time in the slammer...

louis-t

(23,295 posts)

6. I knew a guy that made a joke about a bomb as he was about to get on a plane

Reply to Baitball Blogger (Original post)

Fri Oct 10, 2014, 04:29 PM

Oct 2014

on the way to his honeymoon. I expect they had been drinking heavily. They pulled them off the plane. And this was before 9/11.

ohnoyoudidnt

(1,858 posts)

8. Stupid ass

Reply to Baitball Blogger (Original post)

Fri Oct 10, 2014, 04:51 PM

Oct 2014

It should be common sense that you do not joke about anything that threatens the safety of a flight on a plane or at an airport.

customerserviceguy

(25,183 posts)

9. Common sense

Reply to ohnoyoudidnt (Reply #8)

Fri Oct 10, 2014, 08:33 PM

Oct 2014

isn't as common as it used to be.

Hekate

(90,708 posts)

10. Remember when "hi, Jack!" was considered a (bad) joke? nt

Reply to Baitball Blogger (Original post)

Fri Oct 10, 2014, 08:37 PM

Oct 2014

ohnoyoudidnt

(1,858 posts)

11. Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue. nt

Reply to Hekate (Reply #10)

Fri Oct 10, 2014, 08:58 PM

Oct 2014

Liberal_in_LA

(44,397 posts)

12. it's obnoxious to claim to have a communicable disease on a crowded plane

Reply to Baitball Blogger (Original post)

Fri Oct 10, 2014, 08:59 PM

Oct 2014

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