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Originally Posted by Eagle5US
Either way...Good on them for stepping up with a "show of authority" if not a "show of force".
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Agreed.
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Stuff like this just pisses me off-like the two "Asian" (i.e. Muslim / Arab living in Asia) students escorted off the aircraft after a virtual passenger mutiny last week-"We're just a couple of lads wanting a little fun and excitement" when they were speaking in Arabic and disobeyeing the instructions of the ground crew in pre-flight.
Eagle
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From what I've pieced together reading through articles on Google news, an old lady who observed the duo speaking in a foreign language got nervous (they were speaking Urdu, not Arabic. They didn't know Arabic) and she approached them asking what they were travelling for. The guys replied they were making a day trip and the lady thought that was odd. She got up and left and talked to more passengers resulting in a domino effect. None of the articles are really consistent with lots of he-said, she-saids in there.
I didn't read where the dudes disobeyed instructions of the ground crew.
In any case, once you have a mob dynamic going with people getting paranoid and hysterical, from a business perspective the only option unless you want to fly a whole aircraft for 2 guys, is to get them off, check em out, maybe give a coupon or so for their inconvinience and re-book them.
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Becker Posner blog had some interesting econ based analysis on profiling. One of the suggestions was to profile, but also make it pleasant/with incentive; Those pulled aside for more scrutiny but innocent get some kind of minor compensation.