Passenger Can't Fly Due to "Inappropriate" Book

[Matt Molnar]

A detailed account of how several law enforcement agencies and ultimately United Airlines kept a guy from flying because the cover of the book he was reading had an illustration of a time bomb on it...and then bumped him again after he brought the book home and returned with a copy of Harry Potter.



Philadelphia City Paper:

Novel Security Measures
A local man was kept off a recent flight because of a book he was carrying.

Everyone knows it is a bad idea to try and board a plane carrying a box cutter, a flight manual written in Arabic, or a sack full of mysterious white powder. But with ultra-tightened airport security, a book could also prevent you from boarding that plane. More...

[MarkLawrence]

ohhh...damn...I hope they don't check me when I fly to and from LGA in a couple of weeks - what kind of alarm would a memory card of aircraft pictures raise?? :lol:

[ATAIndy]

I've always wondered myself whether or not people could be kicked off planes for stereotyping. I guess this shows that you can get the boot.

[emshighway]

Please notice it wasn't the TSA who booted him. :roll:

[moose135]

Check the date - this happened in October 2001.

[ATAIndy]

Oh, well being 1 month after 9/11 it makes more sense.

[Matt Molnar]

Check the date - this happened in October 2001.

Oh, crap. It was a top story on Digg today. I'm dumbfounded.