Buffalo, NY (WBEN) - A traveler stopped at Buffalo Niagara International Airport last night lead to some tense moments when the young man claimed he had a bomb.Now it's disturbing enough that the teenager had cellphones in his backpack, since cellphones have been used to conceal bomb detonaters. But that aside, here's something to ponder: regardless of age, why wasn't the teen AND his father charged with disturbing the peace at the airport? A few years ago, there were a few cases of plane passengers who voiced offensive lies and sick jokes aloud in the airport terminals that they'd hidden bombs in the planes they'd ridden, which was offensive to the airline attendants who hosted them. This is just as serious, and for that, the teen and the father should both be fined, if anything, for frightening and angering everyone.
The teenager and his father were stopped by airport security and while the father was cooperating with authorities, his son allegedly started praying loudly in Arabic and then announced "I have a bomb", "I wanna die"' and "We're all gonna die".
With guns drawn on him, the 16-year-old then tore off its backpack and reached into it. Officers wrestled him to the ground and found he had no weapons or explosives, but several cell phones.
The FBI questioned the young man, who was then taken to Erie County Medical Center for a psychiatric evaluation.
This also brings up an important subject worth debating - if Muslim parents willingly and willfully raise their children for violence and crime. And if the father mentioned here was a Muslim, there too is something to investigate.
To bring in a psychiatrist is not enough. In fact, it's fairly moot.
4 comments:
Avi,
Good stuff, but one comment needs to be made. Everyone is allowed to bring cell phones aboard planes in America. And, as far as I know, all across Europe.
Apparently, you aren't allowed to bring cell phones in Israel. Is that true?
I think people are allowed to bring cellphones on planes in Israel too, but you need to put them through a metal detector and x-ray scan machine first. AS told on the audio, the teenager had at least FIVE cellphones in his backpack, and that's good reason for suspicion.
I doubt there is much wrong with this young man that a dozen hard strokes on his butt with a cane woulnd't set right. Never mind all this fines stuff: make the little dipstick really smart and he won't forget it in a hurry. Also he won't be able to sit down for a week without remembering it!
Avi,
Oh, I didn't know he had five cellphones in his backpack. That is kind of weird.
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