No CNN, Airplanes Are Not A 'High-Risk Environment'
Apparently there aren't any cute blond girls who've gone missing overseas lately, so someone at CNN got assigned to write up this tripe:
On a recent Southwest Airlines flight, a man dropped his pants and exposed himself to the female passenger sitting next to him, then punched her, according to an FBI affidavit. The plane was in midair, and the naked man reportedly grew angrier, screaming uncontrollably and shaking his fist in the air... 'Now people are more hyper-vigilant on what occurs on aircrafts,' said Ron Koziol, assistant section chief for the FBI's violent crimes unit, who calls airplanes a 'high-risk' environment.
Did you hear that? He shook his fist! Not only did he shake his fist, but he shook it in the air! If you continue reading this Woodward and Bernstein-like expose, you discover that there are 80 similar incidents every single year. We did some back of the napkin number crunching and concluded that, if you board a plane every morning for the next 365 days, you have a .00001% chance of seeing something that we have to deal with every single night on the way home from the bar.
Of course having a guy naked and screaming on an airplane is a lot scarier than having a guy screaming on the street. But airplane personnel are trained to deal with terrorists trying to break into cockpits. It's hard to believe that 74 drunk passengers and 6 crazy dudes per year constitute a "high-risk environment." It's much easier to believe that CNN needed to fill some space and decided to take a low blow at the travel industry.
The rest of the article breaks the news that if you disrupt a commercial flight, you're in for stiff federal penalties. So FYI on that in case you didn't know.
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