Le iPod bouche les chiottes
Ottawa Citizen: “iPod prompts airport scare in Ottawa”.
A suspicious package found in an aircraft washroom on a flight from Chicago on Tuesday afternoon brought out Ottawa police canine and bomb-disposal units.
A member of the crew found the package about 4 p.m.
The plane landed safely and was isolated away from the terminal.
Passengers were taken off the plane and questioned by police while experts investigated the ’package.’
The airport was not closed during the three-hour incident.
Police issued a statement Tuesday evening saying the suspicious package ’has been identified as an electronic devicde commonly known as an iPod.’
Le récit du jeune propriétaire du malheureux iPod est extraordinaire (et m’a rappelé par certains aspects une mésaventure personnelle avec les douanes canadiennes). Bienvenue au Canada !
It all started when I got out of my seat to go to the bathroom. I went to the bathroom, washed my hands, and returned to my seat. A little while later the two stewardesses on the flight crossed each other in the aisle. They had a quick conversation that I was in earshot of.
“I locked off the front lav. There’s something in the toilet that’s preventing it from flushing. Run some water and see if you can clear it.” My face immediately turned red. The seat cover! I thought. It must have been too big to flush! I should have thrown it out!
I was so embarrassed. I tried to act normal… I took a sudden interest in the contents of the seat pocket in front of me, acted nonchalant and all. I watched as the stewardess got on her hands and knees in the lavatory and did unfathomable dirty work.
Sometime later, I decided it would be best if I forgot the whole thing happened, so I went to put on my headphones and drown myself in iPod music. But… no iPod. I panicked, checked my other pockets. Where was it? Not under the seat, not in the pockets, not… anywhere. I looked up to the stewardesses. One of them had run past me in a decent clip. She was carrying a green handbook. She brought it to the other stewardess. They flipped through the handbook, read a page, then made a call. The other stewardess had retrieved a blue metal box and was removing some equipment from it.
I put two and two together. I knew what had happened.
[Merci François.]
Stéphane Z.
Ça dépasse l’entendement. Un jour, dans très longtemps, on classera notre époque comme une gigantesque histoire des socières de Salem à l’échelle mondiale.
“My name is John and I.am.canadian !”
karl
@Stephane: je ne mets pas de +1, tu prends cela pour des points ;) alors que c’est juste pour dire “d’accord”.
Bientôt, on aura plus le droit d’aller dans les toilettes des avions, parce qu’ils auront peur des attentats suicides à l’arme biologique. Avant les bombes, bientôt les porteurs de virus. Cela ferait beaucoup plus de dégats.
kinanveu
[hors-sujet] @Laurent : Il semble que ton fil atom est par terre à cause du lien vers l’article d’Ottawa Citizen. [/hors-sujet]
Laurent
[Merci de l’info.]
karl
Refuse to be Terrorized
Guillermito
Il y a quelques jours j’ai achete ce joli t-shirt pour mon prochain voyage.
Laurent
“Our politicians help the terrorists every time they use fear as a campaign tactic. The press helps every time it writes scare stories about the plot and the threat. And if we’re terrified, and we share that fear, we help. All of these actions intensify and repeat the terrorists’ actions, and increase the effects of their terror.”
Is airport security futile? est pas mal non plus.
@ Guillermito : oh, le joli T-shirt, je vais cependant sans doute éviter à PET où je ne suis pas en odeur de sainteté…
karl
roooo la blague a deux balles ;) tu me fais concurrence la :p
Maxime
“Upon request, black shirts have been added.” Ouf, me voilà rassuré, j’ai cru un instant que Guillermito était devenu fou ! ;)
Yogi
L’avenir du transport aérien : tous les bagages en soute, les passagers en slip et anesthésiés pour la durée du voyage.
Blah ? Touitter !