Examples Of When People Overreact

Ninety minutes after taking off from Sydney Airport, a flight attendant on a United Airlines flight bound for Los Angeles found an airsickness bag - presumably unused - in a lavatory with the letters “BOB” written on it.
The flight attendant decided that the letters stood for “Bomb On Board” and immediately alerted the captain, who decided the risk was serious enough to turn the plane around and land back in Sydney.
Source: The Sydney Morning Herald, August 2, 2004

Republican Bill Crozier of Union City said that if elected, he will require that used textbooks be placed under every student’s desk for self-defense during a school shooting. Crozier said thick textbooks will stop bullets shot from weapons wielded by school intruders. “People might think it’s kind of weird, crazy,” said Crozier, a teacher and former U.S. Air Force security officer. “It is a practical thing, it’s something you can do. It might be a way to deflect those bullets until police go there.”
Source: wfaa.com, October 19, 2006

Crazy, just crazy!

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  • 6 Responses to “Examples Of When People Overreact”


    1. Gravatar Icon 1 forzaq8 Mar 17th, 2007 at 5:00 am

      didn’t they meet that guy on The daily show ?

    2. Gravatar Icon 2 eshda3wa Mar 17th, 2007 at 6:57 am

      paranoia anyone?

    3. Gravatar Icon 3 3baid Mar 17th, 2007 at 8:19 am

      Ph34R /\/\y bULL37 d3PhL3c710|\|9 5k1LLz! >:]

    4. Gravatar Icon 4 Delicately Realistic Mar 17th, 2007 at 3:08 pm

      L O L

      The hugging one cracked me up!

      Maganeeeeeeeeeeen

    5. Gravatar Icon 5 S Mar 17th, 2007 at 7:25 pm

      they make a bill deal out of everything

    6. Gravatar Icon 6 Yazeed Mar 17th, 2007 at 8:29 pm

      forzaq8,
      i dont recall 9ara7a, but he sounds like a likely candidate to be on the show :P

      eshda3wa,
      i call it a post 9/11 world, people werent as crazy in the 90’s :P

      3baid,
      fear my what what skills?

      Delicately Realistic,
      hehehehehe, was gonna post that one bes nesait to copy it over :P

      S,
      another title for the post :P

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