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Hysteria: Next time, check your journal forty-five minutes before departure

Still more uncalm thinking

Via Shakespeare’s Sister, the synopsis of yet another episode of In These Suspicious Times: Write the words “suicide bomber” in/on your journal; carry said journal with you when you fly; get arrested. Sure to be a hit.

An airline passenger with the words “suicide bomber” written in his journal was arrested when his plane arrived in San Jose, California, on Wednesday, but the words appeared to refer to music, the FBI said.

“A male was observed by his fellow passengers as having a journal and hand written on the journal were the words ’suicide bomber,’” FBI spokeswoman LaRae Quy said.

“That, combined with the fact that he was clutching a back pack and then finally he was acting a little suspiciously” prompted law enforcement to act.

Sure, your fellow passengers are reading your journal over your shoulder and paranoid flight attendants are giving you the stink eye. That’s no reason to get all defensive and suspicious, right?

Of course, it’s all your fault for advertising that you were a suicide bomber in the first place.

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