Friday, August 25, 2006

We're Just Scaring Ourselves

Here's a Canadian newspaper report from Tue Aug 15 that a plane declared an emergency over a suspicious package which turned out "has been identified as an electronic device commonly known as an iPod."

Ok first off, what's with the overly officious English? Why not just say "was an iPod"?

Ok, the fun part is this posting on a World of Warcraft forum claiming to be the guy on this flight who accidently dropped his iPod in the toilet and told the stewardess. His account of what happened next, if true, is frightening. If we're going to over-react to everyday accidents like this, we will no longer be able to function as a society.

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