Pilot diverts plane over teenager’s prayers — FYI.
A teenage airplane passenger using a Jewish prayer object caused a misunderstanding that led the captain to divert a Kentucky-bound plane to Philadelphia and prompted a visit from a bomb squad.
A 17-year-old boy on US Airways Express Flight 3079 from New York to Louisville was using tefillin, a set of small boxes containing biblical passages that are attached to leather straps, said Philadelphia police Lt. Frank Vanore.
When used in prayer, one box is strapped to the arm while the other box is placed on the head.
“It’s something that the average person is not going to see very often, if ever,” FBI spokesman J.J. Klaver said.
Found by Aric Mackey.
You know the TSA is going downhill when even the Jews are being molested by the officials.
In the Sikh faith, you must always carry a dagger in your belt. Here is an article about an incident in the UK where a Sikh got into a tussle with airport security when they would not let her board with her dagger.
http://tinyurl.com/ygastcu
Seriously, what good has religion ever done?
One could argue that A BOMB is a religious object for the terrorists, and should be tolerated if prayer and tefillin are to be tolerated. That is a crazy argument of course.
I’m all in favor for flying naked if no one is allowed to bring on Personal Items of any sort.
These things are just wrong wrong wrong looking. Really f-ing weird-ass religion, I’d say. Like all religions. The worst thing that ever happened to our planet, religion.
All religions of the world should come together and agree on one worship article to use while on a plane. Really, in the name of safety.
The troll doll makes sense for this. It works well for bingo so why not for flights?
Today an El-Al flight was diverted because a passenger had a gold statue of a jew being tortured around her neck.
I learned about Phylacteries and their use in (Catholic) school. Grade school? High school? Don’t remember.
# 7 Cursor_:
“Let’s start out with the most obvious questions:
A) There are Jews in Kentucky???????
B) How did the above get past the yokels in Kentucky?
C) Why divert all the way to Philadelphia. Was Ohio too busy?”
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Okay, in order:
A) Yes, Louisville (where the flight was bound) has a thriving Jewish community. In some neighborhoods, even the Kroger grocery stores have Kosher sections.
B) It didn’t — it got past the yokels at New York’s La Guardia airport, where the flight originated. I guess they didn’t think the things were that unusual…
C) On a flight from NYC to Louisville, Philadelphia is right on the way. Ohio would have been farther.
Not all Kentuckians are yokels, though there are, of course, some. But there are yokels everywhere, including New York and other large cosmopolitan cities. Just look at the ignorant boobies Jay Leno gets to appear on his fake quiz show skit. Or some of the people who post here.
I like kosher food.
New Rule:
No religious activity of ANY kind will be tolerated after slipping the surly bonds of earth.
No costumes, no headdress, no jewelry, no artifacts, no praying, no mentioning of any deity, no proselytizing, no swearing, no hymns, no damning (unless simple “damn”), no sign language, no arcane symbols traced out by finger on the tray table and no religious reading material will be permitted in the passenger cabin.
Passengers not complying will be rendered unconscious by the Flight Anesthesiologist for the duration of the flight.