“A World of Warcraft aficionado travelling from Chicago to Canada earlier this month to hook up with fellow gamers sparked an airborne terror alert after accidently flushing his iPod down the toilet,” Lester Haines reports for The Register.
Haines reports, “A short report in the Ottawa Citizen states: ‘A suspicious package found in an aircraft washroom on a flight from Chicago on Tuesday afternoon brought out Ottawa police canine and bomb-disposal units. A member of the crew found the package about 4 p.m., The plane landed safely and was isolated away from the terminal. Passengers were taken off the plane and questioned by police while experts investigated the ‘package.'”
Haines reports, “The blow-by-blow, first-person account on a WoW forum is far more entertaining.”
Full article here.
All aircraft should have one of these installed.
After reading the whole first-person account, our main thought was poop, er… poor iPod.
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The full poop on Atech’s toilet paper holder with dock for Apple iPod – June 14, 2006
Back when I was a kid, we didn’t had expensive,
fancy schmancy gadgets to flkush down the toilet.
I we wanted to scare the crap out of people, we
would run down to the fireworks stand for a purchase.
Then we would flush a lit cherry bomb down the
toilet. It scared people, and we were thankful.
Lol this is funny, i would poop on the ipod before i flushed it. since it is so useless.
This totally made my day! Good read!
I haven’t played video games in years, but a couple of weeks ago my bro-in-law convinced to try world of warcraft.
It is an awesome game. Plays great on my iMac.
Check it out!
WoW rocks!!! PVP is the best server experience! Zuluhed is awesome!
If you read the entire story, you should be scared. It would be funny, if it wasn’t our OWN GOVERNMENTS trampling all over our civil rights.
Thank you george w. f***ing bush for the world we live in today.
I read the post at the WoW forum.
What a bunch of crap that guy had to put up with from the Canadian gov’t. The story is so tragic it’s incredibly funny. It’s also very well written.
Too bad about his iPod.
WoW rocks on my powermac too!
Un-FRIGGIN-believable. That was TOO FUNNY!!! I feel sorry for ol’ boy. Just leave the iPod in your carry-on when you go to the toilet or if you must take it, put it on the floor.
I’ll bet it sounded shitty afterwards
I guess they’re taking this shit seriously.
Don’t Worry, in a few years the “governments” as you know it today will not be around.
Check out Peace Core!
The most amazing thing is that the Customs official knew how to use a Mac!
PcX – the “PeaceCore” web site contains some of the most useless drivel I’ve read this year… except for anything written by Dvorak.
“Everybody wants to get to Heaven, nobody wants to die. “
Interesting analysis there nimrod. First off, I wasn’t aware the GWB was the one that crashed 2 planes into the World Trade Center towers in New York City to begin with. And secondly, I also wasn’t aware the GWB was currently the prime minister of Canada either. But thanks for clearing that up for all of us.
If you weren’t aware that GWB and his administration were behind 9/11, you need to visit belowgroundsurface.org and do a little catching up. We’ll wait for you.