There were NO BOMB JOKES or gestures as far as I heard anywhere! I was merely *imagining* the *worst* interpretation a guard *might* have given to,
her having reached over to help with a zipper
THAT is what she said she did and why (she said) she did it. Have you some new information which can properly attach a more sinister take to the event? Aside from imagining one, that is?
My attempted point was that things are different at airport security checkpoints than at other places in society. We all know this. One of the differences is that jokes about bombs can result in jail time.
I'm not saying that she said anything about a bomb.
But along with the restriction about jokes, there are implicit (and maybe explicit, I haven't checked) expectations that potential passengers will cooperate with the security personnel or will be refused passage onto a flight.
Thus, to my mind and apparently to the minds of the security people, it doesn't matter what her intent was in helping another person with their zipper. Her actions, and her admitted subsequent actions, indicated to the security personnel that she wasn't being cooperative.
The security people aren't there to placate people who have a chip on their shoulder or who want to behave childishly. And I do think she acted childishly, but that's just my inference.
It's about character assassination via innuendo.
I don't think I've engaged in that. Now we might agree that these comments by [link|http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&threadm=Pine.LNX.4.10.10111052138180.13487-100000%40spock.peak.org&rnum=1&prev=/groups%3Fq%3DOden%2BGreen%2Bparty%2BMaine%2Bdisruptive%26hl%3Den|Brent White] about her approach that level.
I agree with you that more disinterested reports about Bangor would be better, but I don't think that's going to appear.
Sorry for chastising you.
I'm done in this thread, I hope.
Cheers,
Scott.