Yesterday, the Daily Mail reports, an EasyJet flight from Amsterdam to Newcastle was delayed for two hours while 16 students asked to be put on another flight because one of them saw a fellow passenger "writing in what appeared to be Arabic script".
Turns out - even though the very act of investigating this paranoid delusion is INSANE - that he was an Iranian academic who'd been visiting his wife. So that was lovely for him, a mob accusing him of potential terrorism as he was writing up his thesis, or his weekend shopping list, or whatever it might have been.
The idiocy of the students barely warrants comment, really. But I will say this: have YOU ever tried to change your flight on a budget airline at the last minute and NOT incurred some hefty charges? Well, I wonder if the next time I want to get a later flight, all I have to do is board and then kick up a stink because I hear someone is talking in Hindu, or texting in Russian, or eating a foreign snack with their mouth open. I'm not sure where the line is for worrying behaviour with EasyJet, but it would be fun (by which I mean horribly depressing) to find out.
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Turns out - even though the very act of investigating this paranoid delusion is INSANE - that he was an Iranian academic who'd been visiting his wife. So that was lovely for him, a mob accusing him of potential terrorism as he was writing up his thesis, or his weekend shopping list, or whatever it might have been.
The idiocy of the students barely warrants comment, really. But I will say this: have YOU ever tried to change your flight on a budget airline at the last minute and NOT incurred some hefty charges? Well, I wonder if the next time I want to get a later flight, all I have to do is board and then kick up a stink because I hear someone is talking in Hindu, or texting in Russian, or eating a foreign snack with their mouth open. I'm not sure where the line is for worrying behaviour with EasyJet, but it would be fun (by which I mean horribly depressing) to find out.
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