NBC-Chicago reported on Wednesday that “3 ‘Strange’ Men Cause Flight Diversion — at least one man of ‘Middle Eastern descent’ got into a fight with an attendant, passengers say:”
A Portland, Ore.-bound flight made a “level two emergency” stop in Chicago Tuesday night after passengers said three men, reportedly of Middle Eastern descent, were acting strangely, even fighting with flight crews.
At least one of the men walked back to the area of the plane where flight attendants work, laid down and began complaining of illness. That man engaged in “some sort of altercation” with the flight attendant, a passenger said.
AdvertisementAt one point another man, who was pacing back and forth in the aisles, also got into a “verbal altercation” with a flight attendant, according to a passenger.
Other men of “Middle Eastern descent” were passing notes and “writing in their notebooks,” a source told NBC Chicago.
United contacted officials at O’Hare and alerted them that the flight, which originated in Washington D.C., would stop. The flight was diverted to Chicago.
Via Doug Ross’s “Utterly random, non-Islamophobic news items o’ the day.”
I hope NPR did the right thing and fired someone for agreeing that they would have felt a bit threatened if they were on that plane.
I seriously doubt that anyone intent on bringing down a plane is going to draw attention to themselves in this manner.
CAIR spokesman ranting about Islamophobia in 3, 2, 1…..
The other totally random story on the three guys who tried to enter Camp Pendleton on separate occassions in multiple vehicles is another WTF moment in the annals of Smart Power. This sounds normal:
“Investigators at Camp Pendleton said the men asked the attendant for directions on how to get to Camp Pendleton before they left the gas station.
According to the alert, shortly after midnight Sunday, a rented Toyota Corrolla driven by Naeem attempted to enter Camp Pendleton through the main gate. As it was being searched, Petrossian and Avonosian drove up in a black Mercedes, but were told to wait. Instead, they continued past the gate and onto the base. Following a short pursuit, the Mercedes was stopped and searched.
No weapons or contraband were found in the Mercedes, but base security noticed the air bag in the steering wheel of the Mercedes had been pulled out and re-attached with duct tape and had wires hanging free, the alert said.”
After being photographed and released (natch), one of them returned to the base claiming he was trying to find the interstate (WTF, indeed), and get this — he was given a letter of debarment (that’ll teach ‘em!) and ESCORTED to the freeway. What, no parting gift or trip to Dairy Queen? How insensitive.
But don’t worry, Janet Incompetano and co. are keeping the country safe from polite middle-aged suburbanites who want lower taxes and smaller government.