Yeah, I'm sure if you lit a smoke in an airplane bathroom and then made a joke about a shoe bomb everyone would just have a good laugh.

no, they would probably cuff me and arrest me. Throw my azz in jail upon arrival. but, it wouldn't have been all over the news as a story.

Wow. That falls into the heart of the "what were you thinking" camp.

It would have been in the news the same amount of time, I think.

Diplomat quizzed after mid-air bomb scare

Passenger reportedly joked about lighting his shoe on D.C.-to-Denver flight

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DENVER - A Qatari diplomat trying to sneak a smoke in an airplane bathroom sparked a bomb scare Wednesday night on a flight from Washington to Denver, with fighter jets scrambled and law enforcement put on high alert, officials said.

No explosives were found on the man, and officials do not believe he was trying to harm anyone, according to senior law enforcement officials who spoke on condition of anonymity.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36243847/

I hope the handcuffed him in a really uncomfortable position next to a dead Indian and her wailing family for 8+ hours and then proceeded with a cavity search performed by the agent with the largest digits on the force. That would be a good joke in English or Arabic.

Good thing were fighting all those wars man the turrorist are really scared.