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Police: Man arrested at Logan after claiming to be in Al Qaeda
A 27-year-old man from Ethiopia was arraigned today at East Boston District Court on a charge that he made a false threat to “blow things up” at Logan International Airport. Ermiyas A. Asfaw, a taxi driver who lives in Washington, D.C., walked up to an AirTran check-in counter Saturday night and was asked by an agent why he had stickers on his luggage from Dubai. Asfaw responded that he had been there. The agent asked, “Were you there on business or pleasure?”…. According to prosecutors, Asfaw responded: “No. I’m Al Qaeda. I’m with them, and I’m here to blow things up.”…. The agent responded that his statement was not funny and was against the law. Asfaw laughed, prosecutors said, and walked away from the counter. The ticket agent alerted a supervisor, who notified State Police…. [A] trooper called the cellphone listed on Asfaw’s airline reservation. He was flying back to Washington, D.C. The trooper arranged to meet Asfaw and arrested him on charges of making a bomb threat.
How stupid does one have to be to make bomb jokes in an American airport? Well, how about Ermiyas A. Asfaw stupid? How anyone could that any sort of joking about blowing things up and al-Qaeda. It’s difficult to imagine what this DUMB@$$ was thinking…assuming there actually was any honest-to-God thought processes taking place.
In this day and age, it’s difficult to imagine that anyone could think that joking about such things could be anything even remotely approaching humorous. Nonetheless, our intrepid DUMB@$$ seems to be nothing if not humor-impaired. Then again, if anyone’s wondering, “Gee, I wonder what would happen if I went to an airport and joked about blowing $#!% up?”, well…here’s your answer. So, you can consider this a lame attempt at a public service….
