"This_Hotspot_is_DA_BOMB"
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I suspect the personality profiles of people with who would make the joke of calling their bluetooth device "bomb" and people who would blow up an airplane full of people is almost diametrically opposite.
My mother used to have a Bluetooth speaker in our car that she took with her. It wasn't deliberately shaped that way, but with the silhouette, the color, and the volume it produced, we ended up dubbing it 'the hand grenade'.
After the hand grenade finally broke, my mother got a nice JVC speaker, a long cylinder. It was promptly named 'the pipe bomb'.
For context, my mother is the most bland, inoffensive Midwest Christian white lady you will ever meet. She has an unusual sense of humor that comes out in the strangest ways. She laughed her ass off all the way through the FNAF games because she thought the animatronics were funny.
I think the TSA just hates people with a personality, period.
One time a TSA guy started to open my wife's carry-on, which she had packed VERY tightly. She said, "Careful, it might explode." This got a raised eyebrow.
I like to believe that people with quirky senses of humour see the various social conventions and other broadly treated as "this is the way things are done" patterns of behavior in human societies with a different perspective so often see the silly side of many such things (hence the quirky sense of humour), making them significantly less likely to simply submit to arbitrary orders from those in positions of authority than the average person.
People that don't just meekly comply are more disliked by "little dictators" - people in positions were they have a little bit of power which they use to push others around to satisfying petty personal needs to feel powerful.
Sounds about right.
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The real reason is because some jackass turned their Bluetooth speaker on during a flight.
If they thought it was real, why wouldn't they land at the closest airport? Why fly all the way back to the origin point?
Its a transatlantic flight, new york origin is probably still the closest airport that can handle the larger plane.
Boston Logan and Bangor should have both been able to handle the flight and are closer. In fact, Bangor has a massive runway and is the defacto airport for flights that need to divert from transatlantic international routes.
Because the pilot told them they would turn this flight around!
Also, maybe clearance wasn't possible on closer airports?
That is one of the most bizarre articles I have ever read. Why in the world are we not allowed to know what the "four letter word" is?
"lmao"?
While the recording does not explicitly confirm the speculation that the Bluetooth name in question was “bomb,” it would certainly make sense given the response from the crew and security personnel on the ground.
To stop voids of personality do copycat incidents
It's kind of click baitey I thought, but if they don't tell you in the article either what the fuck. It appears it was bomb According to some other commenters that are familiar with some Reddit posts on the issue.
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