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| 2005-02-19 |
| Get "snippy" with an airlines' ticket agent and you may never see your luggage again. That's the experience of Dr. Esha Khoshnu, a New Jersey While changing planes in Phoenix, Khoshnu got testy at a Mesa Airlines ticket counter, reports KGTV news, saying, "If I had a bomb, you wouldn't find it." Ha.Ha.Ha. Doctor Khoshnu has clearly been living on a desert island or another planet for the last 30 years and has no idea that airport employees are not amused by bomb jokes. The Transportation Security Administration described Khoshnu as acting "mouthy and snippy," according to KGTV. Snippy? My poodle get like that sometimes. He is old and cranky and only a dog but even he has never claimed to have a bomb. The bomb comment touched off a security scare and FBI officials were dispatched to question Khoshnu, who was subsequently detained long enough to miss her flight. Her suitcase, however, got past security and was loaded onto the America West jet. Yikes! More sequentially challenged security, you lock the door BEFORE the horse gets out. When Mesa Airlines Flight 6264 landed at Lindbergh Field in San Diego the pilot was instructed to taxi to a remote area of the airport where some 35 passengers were taken off the plane and escorted onto two buses, reports City News Service. "When we landed and quickly did a U-turn on the runway, I was like, 'They never do that.' Then, all the cars started coming and it was obvious that it was for our plane. That was the scary part," one passenger told KGTV. City News Service reports members of the San Diego Fire Department's bomb squad searched the plane but found no explosives. Next, they removed Khoshnu's suitcase and inspected it in an open area on the grounds of the airport. Although they found nothing suspicious, authorities blew up the bag with an explosive charge and then doused it with water. You see, doc, WE have bombs. Khoshnu was eventually released and allowed to board a later flight to San Diego. KGTV reports the Assistant U.S. Attorney in Phoenix decided her actions did not merit charges. I disagree, blowing up her undies wasn't enough. Any rational person should know that a comment like hers would cause a major disruption and divert security resources. She should be made to pay the costs incurred at the very least. |
| Posted by:Atomic Conspiracy |
| #9 Hmmm, interest in psychopharmacology. Maybe she'd been doing some first hand research. |
| Posted by: Mrs. Davis 2005-02-19 2:05:56 PM |
| #8 #2, LL, I clicked on the link you provided. Two things struck me as funny. 1)On my browser she appears to be looking through bars. 2) Her bio says ....She has extensive training/experience in crisis intervention,.... Given this report how effective do you think she is at intervening and managing a crisis? LOL |
| Posted by: GK 2005-02-19 2:00:26 PM |
| #7 ROTFLMAO -- I had to click the link just to be sure it wasn't ScrappleFace. |
| Posted by: Tom 2005-02-19 1:47:29 PM |
| #6 Welcome to America, biotch. |
| Posted by: Ebbavith Flineck2775 2005-02-19 1:42:39 PM |
| #5 authorities blew up the bag with an explosive charge and then doused it with water And? Another wannabe has her stash of Victoria Secret undies destroyed. She just has to restock and the stress wil be over. There is a new catalog out, you know... |
| Posted by: BigEd 2005-02-19 12:50:21 PM |
| #4 Mrs Davis, at least in olden times, a white, clean-cut male could respond to an abusive flight crew and maybe get away with it, but not a short, swarthy Egyptian. "They" were little Hitlers then, too. You see, by the time I was notified, my charge had already spent a weekend in Atlanta city jail, appeared before a magistrate, and had his trial, where he pleaded nolo to a Federal misdemeanor. The judge happened to be a retired Navy captain who knew the conseauences of such a plea, and he told the prosecutor that he was sick of these types of cases being sent to him by D***a. Could you or I get away with it? I got the random shoe-search tag, but when I leaned against the table to remove my shoe, he snapped at me to stand up. Then he snapped at me to remove my shoes so he could swab them. So I leaned on the table. We repeated this dance a few times, before I told him I wasn't going through with this nonsense, produced my orders and military ID, and told him to get his supervisor. "He's right behind you," I was told. And so the supervisor was. He looked at me with the hangdog eyes of one who is trapped in crappy system he has no option but to enforce, produced his retired military ID and showed it to me. "Sir," he said very quietly, "I was sixteen years in AWACS. Just do it." |
| Posted by: longtime lurker 2005-02-19 10:13:14 AM |
| #3 Who gives a damn what her ethnicity is? She's stupid, and they are just a bunch of little Hitlers showing off their great power to harrass civilians for whatever reason they choose. It is stupid, pointless, ineffective, un-American and should be stopped. |
| Posted by: Mrs. Davis 2005-02-19 9:50:37 AM |
| #2 She's worth a google. Nothing lunatic, but I wonder what ethnicity Esha Khoshnu is, Persian or Indian? http://www.alphabehavioralcare.com/khoshnu.htm A long time ago I got summoned to the commander's office. NCIS wanted to talk to me about an FBI report they had, that one of my tender charges had threatened to take over an international flight, reportedly declaring "I'm a Navy officer. If you can't run this ship right, I'll take it over." To fully imagine the scene on the 747, though, you'd need to know that he was Egyptian-born, about 5'6", and thoroughly inebriated. Now, I never blamed him for shoving the Belgian flight steward who had been molesting him, which is what brought out the co-pilot and the rest of the crew, but these international incidents are messy to clean up, and this was long before 2001. |
| Posted by: longtime lurker 2005-02-19 9:38:56 AM |
| #1 I almost shit myself laughing. I guess SHE showed them who's boss! Too bad she didn't end up taking a six month sabbatical at Guantanamo. |
| Posted by: Lone Ranger 2005-02-19 9:24:21 AM |