Ebola joke on a plane - 2k fine

[Oakey]

"He was over international waters on an international flight, that is how serious it is," the judge said.

I don't even know how to parse this.

[anonymous-user]

jmorgan said:

Munter said:

hornetrider said:

Did you read the article? Wrote it on a cup as a joke to his daughter, then binned the cup. No-one else was aware.

Nobody but the person who's job it was to tidy away a container of fluid which some stranger had suggested might have ebola in it.

That's not funny. It's not funny in the same was as joking about not wanting to put your shoes back on because the bomb in them makes them uncomfortable.

I'm always making st jokes. But even I can reign that sort of st in for a few hours when on public transport.

My thoughts. There are some things that you are best at avoiding when on planes, making jokes like this is one of them.

You two are just both conditioned to behave as we have to these days in order to allow for the inadequacy of the air industry personnel, who can't be expected to tell the difference between a joke and a threat. I guess we are all to some degree or another. I certainly would agree with you that it is best to be aware of the people we are dealing with when we travel and not make any comment that they will over react to. It's just not worth it.

On that note, I would advise travellers also not to overestimate the ability of the air industry staff, and hope that you never need to rely on them in a real emergency. From what I've seen in years of travelling around the world, it wouldn't be pretty.

This episode is just an example of how things can go wrong. Only a moron might think that a quantity of this virus could be in a paper cup on a plane.

[jmorgan]

Meh

[CAFEDEAD]

Ari said:

Judge said:

A judge said he could not think of a more serious offence given the present day fear of Ebola.

Guessing he's not been a judge for many hours then. The rest of the week should blow his mind!

Maybe after years of TV licence cases and minor speeding infringements his perspective is just wildly distorted.

[BrassMan]

anonymous said:

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That's probably some legalese loophole-thing. They're supposed to have an entry for "illegal earnings" on the tax return, so they can also get you for tax avoidance.

[supersingle]

If I never have to catch another plane it'll be too soon. It just isn't worth the years it takes off my life going through the 'abattoir theme park experience' that is the modern airport.

I'm going skiing in Italy this winter. I'll be taking the car.

[toohuge]

BrassMan said:

anonymous said:

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That's probably some legalese loophole-thing. They're supposed to have an entry for "illegal earnings" on the tax return, so they can also get you for tax avoidance.

Both of those examples are designed to give the authorities a very easy way out - fraudulently completing a government document. In the case of immigration if there is any evidence that you were involved with the Nazi party, your exit from the US is a very swift and easy process -hence the question. Same with the tax form.... the IRA have enormous powers here in US, fraud on your IRA form is a massive issue and you essentially have zero recourse against the IRA - it's not a happy state of affairs imo.

[Jonny_]

Judge in "totally fking detached from reality" shocker!

[Troubleatmill]

No sympathy from my side.

Who can forget comedy classics such as these.

"What's in my violin case? It's a machine gun - I'm Bugsy Malone."
"What's that white powder....Anthrax of course."


ATEOD - You have to be a complete bell end to try your hand at comedy at the airport or on a plane.

[Hoofy]

Ari said:

Judge said:

A judge said he could not think of a more serious offence given the present day fear of Ebola.

Guessing he's not been a judge for many hours then. The rest of the week should blow his mind!

[Oakey]

toohuge said:

Both of those examples are designed to give the authorities a very easy way out - fraudulently completing a government document. In the case of immigration if there is any evidence that you were involved with the Nazi party, your exit from the US is a very swift and easy process -hence the question. Same with the tax form.... the IRA have enormous powers here in US, fraud on your IRA form is a massive issue and you essentially have zero recourse against the IRA - it's not a happy state of affairs imo.

Geez, I thought the Good Friday Agreement had put an end to IRA shenanigans

[Vaud]

Whilst I think it was ill judged, I don't the think him giving €2500 to a bunch of Catholic priests is going to exactly going to help the world.

Better that it had gone to MSF...

[Tunku]

Modern day Po faced bds do my head in. Plenty on here, so must be fking millions world wide now. bds the lot of them.

[Murph7355]

REALIST123 said:

...Only a moron might think that a quantity of this virus could be in a paper cup on a plane.

In this day and age only a moron jokes about stuff like this in situations like he was in. It going to court might well be OTT, but anyone with a brain cell knows not to goon around on flights etc.

It's not about being conditioned because of the quality of cabin/service staff. Personally I'd rather people were "conditioned" not to be stupid in these situations. We spend so little time on board planes (etc) that is it really harmful to our civil liberties that we should restrain our hilarious senses of humour for the duration?

[Beati Dogu]

Enough is enough! I've had it with these mother fking jokes on this mother fking plane!