From: jim bell <jimbell@pacifier.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 1996 07:57:31 +0800
To: William Knowles <erehwon@c2.net>
Subject: Re: [NOISE] Airport legal question
Message-ID: <199608211952.MAA00934@mail.pacifier.com>
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At 10:37 PM 8/20/96 -0700, William Knowles wrote:
>Lucky,
> 
>>I know that it is a violation of federal law to joke about explosives at 
>>the X-ray machine. Would an "I love Explosives" sticker on carry-on 
>>luggage violate any laws?
> 
>Dunno, But you might get a kick out this from The Chicago Reader that 
>published a list of the "bomb threats" made at O'Hare International 
>airport a few weeks back.
  

>7/23:  "I don't have a bomb in the bag."
>7/24:  "Well no, I left my pipe bomb at home."
>8/1:  "It's not as if we were Swedish and here to blow up the airport."


I wonder how they determined that the lines above were "bomb threats."

Jim Bell
jimbell@pacifier.com