An Early Nomination for 2011's Stupidest Traveler
Parents take note: if you raise your child to be an overweening self-entitled brat, some day that child might decide that airport security rules apply only to other people, and you in turn might have to bail them out of jail. More specifically they might decide—as did Edward T. Hall III of Columbia University—that the reasonable solution to not bringing a photo ID to JFK is to hop over the ticket counter, jump onto the baggage belt, and wander around the tarmac.
It took airport authorities about 20 minutes to find and arrest this tool, which is way too long. Even if TSA didn't see him as a threat—and they probably didn't—airports have been shut down for significantly less. Hall made it into the airport's secure zone, which kind of misses the point of having a secure zone, so let's see if in the future we can't get that reaction time down to something reasonable? Because if this guy can penetrate the airport and walk around for almost half an hour, we're less than eager to see what determined terrorists could do.
Speaking of determination, we did a little bit of Jaunted-style investigative journalism and found Hall's Academia.edu page. Here's where things really get particularly entertaining. It turns out that he's a Columbia University research assistant specializing in—honestly, this really couldn't be any better—decision-making. Seriously. He studies how people evaluate consequences. How perfect is that?
[Photo: Edward Hall III / Academia.edu]
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