{"id":4641,"date":"2010-07-22T07:14:42","date_gmt":"2010-07-22T11:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=4641"},"modified":"2010-07-22T07:14:42","modified_gmt":"2010-07-22T11:14:42","slug":"temporary-aircraft-security-procedures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/07\/22\/temporary-aircraft-security-procedures\/","title":{"rendered":"Temporary aircraft security procedures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, asking the wrong question of aircraft personnel can get you booted off the plane &mdash; but not the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2010\/07\/22\/man_pulled_from_plane_for_asking\/\" target=\"_blank\">next flight<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>United Airlines ejected a loyal first class passenger from a recent plane flight because he asked if he would be getting dinner. At least, that&#8217;s his story. He may have been ejected because he&#8217;s the sort of security threat who claims he&#8217;s talking about food when he&#8217;s really talking about the police.<\/p>\n<p>United takes such threats very seriously. At least for a few minutes.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The threat to the plane and its crew was so severe that United summoned the police and escorted him from the plane. Okay, if they thought he was a clear and present danger, they arrest him and charge him, yes?<\/p>\n<p>No. He&#8217;s such a potentially dangerous character that they have an elite customer service agent met him coming off the flight to <em>book him on the very next flight<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, asking the wrong question of aircraft personnel can get you booted off the plane &mdash; but not the next flight: United Airlines ejected a loyal first class passenger from a recent plane flight because he asked if he would be getting dinner. At least, that&#8217;s his story. He may have been ejected because he&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,73],"tags":[52,123,201],"class_list":["post-4641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bureaucracy","category-randomness","tag-absurd","tag-aircraft","tag-securitytheatre"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-1cR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4641"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4647,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4641\/revisions\/4647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}