Man Shouts ‘I Have Ebola!’ Aboard U.S. Airways Flight; Hazmat Crew Takes Him Away
Source: Mediaite
Common sense dictates you might not want to joke that you have Ebola on a crowded airplane several thousand miles in the sky. And yet, as Fox News Latino reported, an unidentified man did just that this week during a flight from Philadelphia to the Dominican Republic.
According to local reports, the passenger sneezed during the flight and shouted, “¡Tengo ébola!” (“I have Ebola” in English), while continuing to cough throughout much of the ride. He also claimed he had been to Africa recently.
Once U.S. Airways Flight 845 landed in Punta Cana International Airport, passengers waited several hours on the tarmac while a flight attendant outwardly called the unidentified man an “idiot” for his actions. Several men in blue hazmat suits appeared aboard the vessel, escorting the man off the plane to a medical facility.
After examiners found he had no fever — a key symptom of the virus — and that he had not been to the African continent, passengers were allowed to disembark.
Read more: http://www.mediaite.com/tv/man-shouts-i-have-ebola-aboard-u-s-airways-flight-hazmat-crew-takes-him-away/
What a genius.
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His name is Andrew Kirell - editor-in-chief for mediate 
I bet a lot of folks here didn't know that the editor-in-chief for mediate is also a fucking libertarian LOL-
MADISON, Wis., August 3, 2013 ― Andrew Kirell, senior editor at the news outlet Mediaite, prides himself on “chronicling the blowhards in political media.” Before joining Mediaite, Kirell worked on John Stossel’s production team at Fox Business and ABC News. Overwhelmed by journalistic magnetism, he decided to forego television production to pursue writing and editorial work.
Kirell, who is heavily influenced by his experiences at George Mason University studying under free-market economics professors like Walter Williams, Byran Caplan, and Don Boudreaux, enjoys using his position at Mediaite to dish out some “equal-opportunity mockery of the Northeast Corridor’s worst bloviators.”
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SEE RELATED: Libertarian America: A Conversation with Scott Horton (Part 1)
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Joseph S. Diedrich: How were you introduced to libertarian ideas?
Andrew Kirell: I grew up with Republican parents who listened to talk radio and bought Rush Limbaugh joke reels on cassette tape. When I was in my early teens, I read books by the likes of Ann Coulter. But around the time of the Iraq War, I began to question my beliefs and become disgusted with conservatism. That process was expedited when I read John Stossel’s first book, which introduced me to brilliant minds like Friedrich Hayek, Frederic Bastiat, and my future professor Walter Williams. Studying under GMU’s economics program only served to cement my libertarian beliefs.
JSD: What is your greatest memory from your time at George Mason?
AK: I went to George Mason University specifically for the libertarian economics professors, but in the pre-Ron Paul days it was not easy spotting fellow libertarians among the student body. One day I wore a “Free State” t-shirt to the mailroom and a friendly stranger noticed it. We became close friends, started a liberty-minded newsletter, and began an initiative of reaching out to find a bunch of all the other hidden libertarians on campus. Now? GMU is a stronghold for libertarian students.
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