Man questioned and misses flight for speaking Tamil


	Man questioned and misses flight for speaking Tamil

rmowery

10-3-2006 9:57 AM

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ludicrous, tamil, speaking foriegn language, airlines, free speech

rmowery says:

This is so Fracking crazy. Now people cannot speak other languages without being considered suspicious?
Maybe next time I fly I shall were one of those T-shirts that say in Arabic that I am not a terrorist. Then write TSA sucks on my plastic bag of stuff. Then - while in line I will call some friends and speak Russian or Chinese in line

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10-3-2006 10:31 AM

bignosemousie

sounds like you'll be at the airport a looong time, Rob.

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