A WoW player/flyers worst nightmare...

[maxama10]

I found this over on /.
Kid loses his Ipod and then gets profiled as a terrorist....! :cuss:

http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/16761990/article.pl

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html;jsessionid=32DA4C09BEB07855088A6F20EBB 8C4DE?topicId=11211166&sid=1


Now the credibility of the story is debatable given its on WoW forums.... but I still believe it happened.

[thecavemankevin]

that was a good read. well, thats what he gets for playing WoW :)

[Al_Steel]

The gov't interviewer was a total n00b. The real question should of been after he found out he was playing WoW was if he played Horde or not? Horde = Terrorist, no more questions necessary. :D

He whispered into my ear. "Did you ... did you take a dump, and then drop your iPod in the toilet on accident?" :rofl:

[1337caesar]

Who goes to meet people they know from the internet? that guy is weird. he needs a real life and a job

[maxama10]

I agree. But, thats a little beside the point. The point being (IMO) that all the new laws and regulations are just going that much further to take away our freedom and allowing the terrorists to succeed. Go read the the /. article and comments and maybe youll get a better idea of what I mean.

-Max

[Pneumagger]

I call shens. If a plane had been landed and a bomb suspected...it would have been ALL OVER THE NEWS while and after it was happening.

[Al_Steel]

I call shens. If a plane had been landed and a bomb suspected...it would have been ALL OVER THE NEWS while and after it was happening.

I thought the same thing, but it's true...

Article in Ottowa Police News (http://www.ottawapolice.ca/en/serving_ottawa/media_room/news.cfm?nr_id=3383)

[Altimas]

Dang I wish I could poop an Ipod...I'd be rich!

[Thordic]

Who goes to meet people they know from the internet? that guy is weird. he needs a real life and a job

They are called AO meets :)

[bofh]

They are called AO meets :)

Pwned.

[Pneumagger]

I thought the same thing, but it's true...

Article in Ottowa Police News (http://www.ottawapolice.ca/en/serving_ottawa/media_room/news.cfm?nr_id=3383)

:cuss:
I stand corrected. Good find.

[maxama10]

They are called AO meets :)
:rolleyes: :p :cheers:

[Al_Steel]

Now that I am at home and can read this one a bit closer I call BS to about 50% of the story. My BS meter really pegs into the red when he started getting irate with the customs officials. I can believe he is the guy that lost an iPod in the crapper and that he was detained by customs. But I have serious doubts about how belligerent an out of work physics major who plays WoW and flys to meet online friends was with the customs agents. It think he probably shat another iPod while they were questioning him.

It does kinda go to underscore just how paranoid we have become over terrorism. When a scat covered iPod fished from a clogged up airplane crapper is enough to cause a plane to be diverted and all the passengers detained / questioned, we really have shown the terrorists who's in charge. :(

[bentothejam1n]

I thought the same thing, but it's true...

Article in Ottowa Police News (http://www.ottawapolice.ca/en/serving_ottawa/media_room/news.cfm?nr_id=3383)
that doesnt prove that the story is true about the WoW guy. i call shens. he probably just saw the article in the newspaper or on the internet

[billybob_81067]

Now that I am at home and can read this one a bit closer I call BS to about 50% of the story. My BS meter really pegs into the red when he started getting irate with the customs officials.



My BS meter pegged when the out of work physics major who plays WoW and flys to meet online friends said he had no porn on his comp...

I mean COME ON!!!!!!!

:D

[maxama10]

Amen haha. :tard: No pron? What was he thinking?!?

[jenarelJAM]

What really pissed me off was the third news article link, where the lady who was on the plane assumed that he flushed the soggy ipod down the toilet when he saw it drop and relized it was broken. I mean... if your ipod drops into the toilet and you flush it, what do you expect happens to it... Also, most ipods have some identifiable info on them. Mine has my name.

I really don't know about shens witht he customs official. He might have been sprucing up the story, but if the custom's official really said those things, I would say right on for standing up to him. :clap: Stupid arrogant officials think they're above the law... :cuss:

[maxama10]

I know! Come on guys! Only Steven Segall is ABOVE THE LAW!!!! :shooting: YEAHHH!!!! WOOOO!!!