Octavian
2004-01-17, 10:25 PM
I found this in the newspaper today and I just found it be incredibly funny.
'The skateboard has become the latest victim of the worldwide war on terror. The European Commission yesterday branded the boards a weapon that could be used to a hijack an aircraft, along with golf clubs, pool cues and fishing rods. All have been included on the commissions list of items that passengers will be banned from carrying on aircraft taking off within Europe. The commission admitted it had no evidence that terriost group al-Qaeda was stockpiling skateboards, but insisted they posed a real threat to airlines. "They have wheels that you could unscrew and use," a spokeswoman for the commission said. "And you could use [one] to break a window."
End of article....
No this isn't a joke, I found it in the paper, not off the Internet.
'The skateboard has become the latest victim of the worldwide war on terror. The European Commission yesterday branded the boards a weapon that could be used to a hijack an aircraft, along with golf clubs, pool cues and fishing rods. All have been included on the commissions list of items that passengers will be banned from carrying on aircraft taking off within Europe. The commission admitted it had no evidence that terriost group al-Qaeda was stockpiling skateboards, but insisted they posed a real threat to airlines. "They have wheels that you could unscrew and use," a spokeswoman for the commission said. "And you could use [one] to break a window."
End of article....
No this isn't a joke, I found it in the paper, not off the Internet.