Airplane Turned Around today because of an E-Cig User.... Grrrr

[mactrekr]

Ignorance is funny, most of the time. I couldn't stop laughing at the first article that said he turned it on and refused to turn it off! HA, then when the 2nd article said he "ignited" it, I was rolling on the floor! Playing devils advocate, I can see why the guy got ....... The flight attendant says "turn that off" and the guy says "I can't", the flight attendant says, "I said turn it off" dude says "Allah Akbar!" The pilot comes out and says, "young man, you turn that off right now!" The dude replies "I can't!" "Young Man, DON'T MAKE ME TURN THIS PLANE AROUND."

Everyone involved in this was a douchetard. The dude who refused to stop vaping, and started yelling, the flight attendant for most likely having no clue about what this wanna be Al Quaida idiot was doing and the reporters for just being plain ignorant.

Idiocracy isn't 500 years away, it's here today!

 

[TennDave]

Whose on Second?

 

[Thulium]

Ignorance is funny, most of the time. I couldn't stop laughing at the first article that said he turned it on and refused to turn it off! HA, then when the 2nd article said he "ignited" it, I was rolling on the floor! Playing devils advocate, I can see why the guy got ....... The flight attendant says "turn that off" and the guy says "I can't", the flight attendant says, "I said turn it off" dude says "Allah Akbar!" The pilot comes out and says, "young man, you turn that off right now!" The dude replies "I can't!" "Young Man, DON'T MAKE ME TURN THIS PLANE AROUND."

Everyone involved in this was a douchetard. The dude who refused to stop vaping, and started yelling, the flight attendant for most likely having no clue about what this wanna be Al Quaida idiot was doing and the reporters for just being plain ignorant.

Idiocracy isn't 500 years away, it's here today!

"Sir, please extinguish that not-smoking light thingie, can't you see we turned on a non-smoking light thingie?? ...Hey, aren't you that guy trying to leave the state one day after being released on bail who just happens to fit the description of a religious/racial stereotype or ten???"

Lesson learned: If you think Allah is great, do him a favor and don't be a d-bag with your e-cig.


From what I understand, the guy had quite the weekend...and he might've gotten away with it if he hadn't got caught vaping. Rut roh.

 

[kristin]

"Idiocracy" - A great movie that most people probably didn't "get."

 

[TennDave]

The plane passenger who was arrested pleads "not guilty."
www. oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2012/02/e-cigarette_defendant_pleads_n.html

 

[Vocalek]

Interesting point: A cousin reported that the 19-year old man was schizophrenic and had stopped taking his meds.

Oh, and this time the reporter accurately described the operation of an electronic cigarette. The word "smoke" was not mentioned!

However, whoever writes the headlines did a terrible job. The headline is supposed to relate to the lead paragraph, not something mentioned in paragraph 4.

A more appropriate title would have been: "19-year old mental patient pleads not guilty to interfering with flight crew."

What if his transgression on the plane had been refusing to turn off his cell phone? Would the headline have read, "Cell phone defendant pleads not guilty..."?

 

[rothenbj]

"What if his transgression on the plane had been refusing to turn off his cell phone? Would the headline have read, "Cell phone defendant pleads not guilty..."?"

Only if they were trying to sell papers rather than the real news.

*Edit*
This post flashed me to a bygone year-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grit_(newspaper)

I had a subscription to this paper in a past life. Nothing but honest, good news. Unfortunately, I guess that didn't sell well.

 

[mekks]

CBC story in Canada related to this story

Should electronic cigarettes be banned on airplanes? - Your Community

Unfortunately Canadian media does little to inform people on the actually subject of e-cigs.

 

[mekks]

OMG @ IziaElectricman he's already hit the comments on this article. That guys is a seriously annoying and completely ignorant, like does this guy work for big pharma or big tobacco? He keeps talking about strengths of mg for nicotine the normal end user would not be handling.

 

[Flying W]

Sheesh. I hope he gets fined for this or worse. I don't care how much i think vaping should be allowed in places. If i am not in my own home and someone asks me not to do it i don't do it.

sent from my Ice Cream Sandwiched Gtablet

Yeah.......I dont care if I am in a school zone .....I'm gonna drink this bottle of whiskey untill its all gone ! Idiot!!!!! Why not just sneak a vape and not be an idiot?
Thats the problem with anything. At least not ALL vapers are idiots. They should have just ejected him out into the atmosphere and let all the curtious people on the plane make it to their destination. Someone should have been waiting on him when that plane landed with a big stick.What a goofball.

 

[Eric A. Blair]

I think there was a lot more to the story than the ecig.

But if and when you vape somewhere like an airplane, for crying out loud be discreet about it. Don't exhale the vapor at all. Or go the bathroom.

 

[Flying W]

I think there was a lot more to the story than the ecig.

But if and when you vape somewhere like an airplane, for crying out loud be discreet about it. Don't exhale the vapor at all. Or go the bathroom.

Thats good advice ,unless they are an idiot who likes to cause trouble and make a scene for the sole purpose of just being and idiot.Most vapers are very thoughtful and would not want any of us to viewed in such a way.

 

[Petrodus]

John Stossel's "Illegal Everything" special airs tonight: LINK
The Government adds 80,000 pages of rules and regulations every year
That breaks down to 1,538 new pages of rules and regulations every week

 

[throatkick]

"Idiocracy" - A great movie that most people probably didn't "get."

Idiocracy is a work of art!

To cover a touchy subject with such accuracy and present it in such a humorous fashion is not an easy task.

 

[rothenbj]

Mekks, just laugh Izia off, just one of those wackos that, for some reason, has to try to annoy everyone. He has no friends over on the nicotine abolitionist board either. Poor guy just doesn't have any friends. He's just way out there. I don't know is you've seen Boardwalk Empire, but I see Agent Nelson VanAlden when I see Izia's name. I imagine him sitting in his room using a whip to administer self flagellation as he fights his "nicodemons". Makes me laugh every time.

 

[mekks]

Mekks, just laugh Izia off, just one of those wackos that, for some reason, has to try to annoy everyone. He has no friends over on the nicotine abolitionist board either. Poor guy just doesn't have any friends. He's just way out there. I don't know is you've seen Boardwalk Empire, but I see Agent Nelson VanAlden when I see Izia's name. I imagine him sitting in his room using a whip to administer self flagellation as he fights his "nicodemons". Makes me laugh every time.

This made me LOL Thanks

 

[Petrodus]

John Stossel's "Illegal Everything" special airs tonight: LINK
The Government adds 80,000 pages of rules and regulations every year
That breaks down to 1,538 new pages of rules and regulations every week

There's reasons why the government and corporations don't want older people around.
Not because they are a drain on health care.
They remember when there were freedoms and they talk too much...
They share their stories and thus infect the masses with the truth virus.

 

[mactrekr]

"Idiocracy" - A great movie that most people probably didn't "get."

Ah Kristin, kindred spirit. I recommend "Idiocracy" to a select few of my more intelligent friends. The ones I hope will get it. The rest, well....... they don't need to get it, they live it.

 

[Vocalek]

This may be an old story, but on my way to the Airport today going home from the SRNT conference in Houston, the cab driver and I got to talking about smoke-free alternatives and he asked me about this guy who was thrown off a plane for using an e-cigarette. I explained to him that the story wasn't really about e-cigarettes when you consider that the man was a young Middle Easterner who started screaming Allah Akbar, and was then tackled and subdued by other passengers.

 

[TennDave]

I hope that no one ever names a PV "Allah Akbar"- I've seen some strange names for some.